Lead Software Engineer (Gaming, Unity)

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:We seek an experienced, highly technical, and exceptionally driven Lead 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: 5-8 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.