Lead Software Engineer - Mobile Game Design

Description :

LILA Games is looking for a highly technical and driven Lead Software Engineer (Unity) to help build a world-class mobile games engineering team.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll drive engineering excellence, solve complex game-dev challenges, and set high performance standards for an ambitious mobile FPS shooter.

Responsibilities :

- Build and maintain a world-class engineering culture for the mobile games team.

- Set performance standards and mentor junior engineers.

- Solve advanced FPS challenges: hit accuracy, server-authoritative gameplay, animations, memory usage, and performance optimisation.

- Collaborate with PMs, designers and cross-functional teams to break down features into engineering tasks.

- Run regular profiling to ensure performance and code quality.

- Lead code reviews and ensure engineering best practices.

- Ensure performance, quality, and stability of the game at all times.

- Build live ops tools, editor tools, and automation.

Requirements :

- 5-8 years of experience.

- Strong technical depth (hands-on coding ~30% time).

- Strong task estimation and planning ability.

- Expertise in multithreading, async operations and thread-safe code.

- Strong game profiling and debugging skills.

- Deep understanding of data-oriented programming and Unity DOTS.

- Backend/networking experience is a plus.

- Creative problem-solver with strict adherence to best practices.