Senior Software Engineer in Stratford-upon-Avon

The opportunity

The Unity Studio Productions team is a group of highly skilled Software Developers and Technical Artists with deep expertise in the Unity platform, whose main goal is to help our customers improve their projects, internal workflows, and assist them in the resolution of very challenging technical problems, bridging with the Unity Engine team in the process. To do this, we provide a series of short-term and long-term co-development services that can range in duration from one week to eighteen months and beyond. Our customers include globally known game development studios and publishers in need of having their games’ performance optimized, their visual targets met, ported to difficult platforms, and timely advice on how best to use Unity. If you're technically skilled, customer-focused, curious, and thrive on variety, this job will suit you.

Your day-to-day work will include:

• Collaborating with game development studios, optimizing their games, developing solutions for their most challenging problems, and striving to ensure that their projects succeed.

What you'll be doing:

• Working closely with external customer teams to develop games and game production tools.
• Scoping, estimating, and assisting in the planning of customer projects.
• Building close relationships with Unity's internal development teams, and providing customer feedback and production verification of future features of Unity technology and services.
• Efficiently solving problems, communicating, and educating our clients, both remotely and on-site at their offices.
• Proactively training yourself to remain at the forefront of Unity Engine technology and game content creation technology.
• Visiting customers for short-term consultations and giving them advice on how to improve their existing projects.

What we're looking for:

• Experience on a variety of game projects, platforms, not necessarily all Unity.
• Ability to adapt to customer production environments and in some cases, take over work streams in collaboration with the customer.
• Understanding of the technical challenges related to complex game development environments.
• Ability to work closely in a team, plan, coordinate, communicate work intentions, progress, and deliver work in a timely manner, dealing with the usual complications of game development.
• The ability to work independently, identifying and clarifying the tasks, assisting the Project Manager and more inexperienced developers.
• The ability to develop and debug code written in a large multithreaded C# or C++ codebase, using a multi-platform engine (e.g. Unity, Unreal, in-house).
• Deep technical expertise in the Unity ecosystem, including C#, ScriptableObjects, Addressables, Unity Lifecycle and modern render pipelines (URP/HDRP).
• A proactive mentor who excels at technical documentation and cross-departmental problem-solving.
• Proven ability to profile and optimize CPU, GPU, and memory usage using the Unity Profiler, Frame Debugger, and RenderDoc.
• The ability to translate complex technical topics into understandable concepts for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience shipping and maintaining titles across diverse hardware (Mobile, PC, or Console) with an understanding of platform-specific constraints.

You might also have:

• Experience (or strong interest) in high-performance paradigms like DOTS, ECS, and the C# Job System.
• Experience with Version Control (Git/Perforce) in a production environment.
• Experience in delivering training/technical talks and writing technical articles.
• Awareness of AI/ML workflows and an understanding of how to leverage emerging technologies to deconstruct and solve complex problems.

Additional information:

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.

Benefits

At Unity, we want our team members to thrive. We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support well-being and work-life balance. Please note: Benefits eligibility, specific offerings, and coverage vary based on the country and employment status. While specific benefits vary, here are some of the ways we strive to take care of our eligible team members globally:

• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
• Commute subsidy
• Employee stock ownership
• Competitive retirement/pension plans
• Generous vacation and personal days
• Support for new parents through leave and family-care programs
• Office food snacks
• Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support
• Employee Resource Groups
• Global Employee Assistance Program
• Training and development programs
• Volunteering and donation matching program

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the world’s leading game engine, powering play for more than 3 billion consumers each month. The top mobile games in the world, the most played PC indie titles, the most innovative console games, and virtually all of the top XR and Web Games are developed, deployed, and grown in Unity. Unity also enables teams across industries like automotive, manufacturing, and healthcare to design, simulate, and collaborate in 3D — closing the gap between ideas and reality.

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators.

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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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