Senior Software Engineer - Gaming

Role & Responsibilities :

We seek an experienced, highly technical, and exceptionally driven Senior Software Engineer to develop a world-class mobile games engineering team in India.

You should be comfortable driving change, leading and motivating teams, providing direct feedback, solving complex problems, and, most importantly, establishing a high standard of performance.

Your team will be responsible for implementing highly performant, optimized, scalable, and easily maintainable code for an ambitious FPS shooter game.

Responsibilities :

- Establish and maintain a world-class engineering culture appropriate for our mobile games team.

- Set performance standards for engineering excellence and guide junior engineers to help them learn and improve.

- Address the most significant challenges of a shooter game, such as hit accuracy, server-authoritative gameplay, animations, memory utilization, and performance optimizations.

- Collaborate with product managers/producers, designers, and others to understand game features and break down engineering tasks for the team.

- Regularly run profilers to ensure code performance and quality.

- Lead code review sessions.

- Guarantee optimal performance, quality, and stability of the game.

- Develop live operations tools, editor tools, and automation.

Ideal Candidate

- Minimum Experience : 1 to 4 years.

- Extreme technical depth and willingness to spend at least 30% of time doing hands-on coding.

- Ability to reasonably estimate and plan tasks and features.

- Expert understanding of multithreading, asynchronous operations, and thread-safe code.

- Proficient at profiling games to identify bottlenecks and performance issues.

- Maniacal adherence to technical best practices and guidelines with a creative problem-solving approach.

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

- Familiarity with backend/networking is a plus.

Perks, Benefits and Work Culture :

- We foster a culture of continuous learning.

- We value talent and the ability for significant self-improvement.

- Honest feedback and transparency across all departments allow for rapid skill development.

- You will have the opportunity to work on an exciting new game development product with complete autonomy.