Senior Software Engineer

The opportunity

Your day-to-day will have you working on development services which can range in duration from one week to over a year. Learn and partner with other industry veterans to work on critical performance-sensitive projects that demonstrate Unity engineering excellence.

This role might involve occasional travel to customers’ offices and other Unity offices, primarily within Japan.

If you're a customer-focused, technically skilled leader with excellent communication skills, this job is for you!

What you'll be doing

• Work directly with external game studios to build new features, interactive apps and tools
• Analyse performance in our gaming customers' projects and workflows, then provide them with targeted technical guidance
• Deliver high-quality code components to enable our partners and customers to be successful
• Analyse Unity source code to keep your skills and knowledge up-to-date
• Build close relationships with Unity's internal development teams, then champion developer feedback to help positively impact Unity's roadmap

What we're looking for

• Capable of developing and debugging code written in a large multithreaded C# or C++ codebase, using a multi-platform engine (e.g. Unity, Unreal, in-house)
• Knowledgeable on how to profile, analyse, and optimise performance, from low-level limitations to high-level architectural decisions
• Experience in shipping multiple games or other real-time interactive applications, including a proven understanding of software development lifecycles
• Able to guide customers by clearly communicating ideas and technical knowledge through written reports and spoken language in Japanese
• Comfortable diving into areas outside of their expertise in order to help our customers

You might also have

• Experience using Unity to develop games or commercial software
• Experience in developing games for consoles or mobile devices
• Experience in delivering training/technical talks and writing technical articles
• Knowledge of rendering, graphics, animation, networking, profiling, or low-level performance as it pertains to game development
• English skill: for internal communication purpose—good level of reading and writing, motivated to learn and use English

Additional information

• International relocation support is not available for this position.

Life at Unity

As of the fourth quarter of 2023, more than 69% of the top 1,000 mobile games are made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1,000 games in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. In 2023, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.

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This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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