Senior Unity Developer

🕒 April 14

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Magpie Literacy

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11 - 50 employees

📚 Education

👥 B2C

Education • B2C • Technology

Magpie Literacy is a company dedicated to unlocking the potential of every child as a reader. They aim to tackle systemic inequities in literacy by developing research-based digital literacy tools for students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. Their tools focus on foundational reading skills such as phonemic awareness, decoding, and meaningful reading experiences. Magpie Literacy's mission is to eradicate illiteracy by providing educational resources that help children become strong, confident readers. They offer a supplemental digital tool for kindergarten students, incorporating instructional videos and educational games to support reading development through engaging and developmentally appropriate methods.

📋 Description

• Design and build core gameplay architecture that is reliable, testable, and scalable (game states, core loop, progression, input, UI flow). • Build and iterate on novel game components and reusable systems (animation/state machines, interaction systems, dialogue/tutorial systems, level/puzzle frameworks). • Collaborate closely with product managers, learning designers, and fellow engineers to create new gameplay experiences and improve existing ones. • Integrate with backend / live game services for personalization and persistence (APIs, data flows, offline/online resilience). • Approach the games as products: understand learner and educator needs, identify friction, and take ownership of outcomes with metrics-informed decision making. • Take ownership across all phases of development, from design to production, and monitor performance in live environments (especially WebGL). • Implement a pragmatic automated testing strategy: unit tests + integration tests tied to game states, services, and core systems. • Drive playtesting loops: instrument builds for fast feedback, triage issues, ship fixes, and improve stability. • Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code following best practices. • Ensure application performance, quality, and responsiveness across platforms (Chromebook-friendly, web constraints). • Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging to maintain high-quality deliverables. • Mentor other engineers and contribute to their growth. • Contribute to architectural decisions and help define technical standards and best practices. • Stay up to date with emerging technologies and suggest improvements to enhance development processes.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional Unity development experience (shipping products). • Demonstrated ability to own a game/system end-to-end: architecture → implementation → testing → bugfixing → release. • Strong experience with state management, core loop implementation, and building reusable components. • Production experience integrating client-side experiences with server-side services (APIs, persistence, personalization). • Solid testing discipline (unit + integration), and comfort setting up testing patterns for a game codebase. • Strong debugging skills and a bias toward shipping stable builds. • Experience working with designers/product partners in an iterative development loop. • Strong collaboration and communication skills in a small, cross-functional environment. • Bonus points • WebGL and web performance optimization experience (Chromebook-friendly) • Experience with analytics/instrumentation for playtesting and quality • Experience building educational games or child-friendly experiences

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary range of $150,000-$155,000 per annum • Competitive medical, dental, vision benefits • Opportunity to work remotely for a mission-driven company full of change-makers • Enjoy the freedom of flexible time off to balance work and personal life, ensuring you stay refreshed and productive. • 401k with 4% guaranteed match • Work environment that values balance and harmony with a deep commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion • Opportunity to travel and meet your team members in-person 2x per year