Lead Unity Developer

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🌐 Ukraine, Serbia, +4 more countries – Remote

🇺🇦 Ukraine – Remote 🇷🇸 Serbia – Remote 🇷🇴 Romania – Remote 🇵🇹 Portugal – Remote 🇪🇸 Spain – Remote 🇧🇬 Bulgaria – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🎮 Game Engineer

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Magic Media

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501 - 1000 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🎮 Gaming

Consulting • Marketing • Gaming

Magic Media is an international gaming, tech, and entertainment group that specializes in providing a wide range of services, including full-cycle game development, video production, and art production. The company is driven by innovation and creativity and prides itself on its ability to deliver top-tier game art services, advanced cybersecurity, immersive VFX, and groundbreaking animation. Magic Media works across various platforms such as PC, console, mobile, web3, and blockchain, catering to both gaming and entertainment industries. With a global workforce, Magic Media collaborates with industry veterans to ensure high-quality delivery and seamless integration into the clients' aesthetic and workflow.

📋 Description

• Lead the client engineering team and take over from the original developers • Own the architecture and SDK/platform integration • Plan and estimate each update with the producer • Set up the development pipeline, tooling and telemetry • Oversee backend-facing features such as asynchronous multiplayer • Conduct code reviews and mentor team members • Lead design, development, coding, testing, and debugging • Coordinate the development team's schedule and communication with other areas • Estimate task completion and write technical design documents • Assist the producer in shaping the future vision • Deliver the post-launch roadmap, including social features, asynchronous multiplayer, themed content updates, and later multiplayer across households

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Unity game developer • Previous experience as Lead Developer of a team of more than 6 developers • Leading the development of at least one large game title from A-Z • A passion for video games • Availability for daily working-hours overlap with Helsinki (EET/EEST) • Shipped client engineering work on a multiplayer, party, casual or two-screen game; live-ops experience on a live title is a strong plus • Strong skills in Unity having delivered a few titles at least • Excellent architectural abilities • Capable of mentoring juniors and regulars • Familiarity with performance bottlenecks and ways to resolve them, multi-threading, OS concepts and optimization • Excellent communication skills • Strong reporting and documentation skills • Flexibility and ability to adapt to new technological changes as per project need • Ability to design and estimate backend-facing client features such as asynchronous multiplayer, persistent state, leaderboards and session sync • Live-ops delivery experience: data-driven content pipelines, seasonal content, and re-planning quickly in response to player feedback and live KPIs • Very strong debugging skills • Experience with word, puzzle, party or board games • Experience working with React, TypeScript or React Three Fiber on controller side • Experience on cloud-streamed or TV based game platforms • Solid technical foundation (e.g. Computer Science / Maths Degree or equivalent)

🏖️ Benefits

• Permanently remote position • An opportunity to hone and improve your skills by applying them to a diverse variety of engaging projects • Be part of an international group with offices worldwide • Career growth and development • Ongoing training and professional self-improvement opportunities • Flexible working hours • An inclusive culture and open communication