Lead Frontend Developer

Plan A Technologies is seeking a Senior Lead Frontend Developer with extensive Unity expertise to lead a team in creating high-performance social gaming experiences. This hands-on role involves overseeing frontend engineering, mentoring developers, and collaborating with product, art, and backend teams to deliver innovative games. The ideal candidate is a technical expert and a leader, focused on coaching, setting standards, and ensuring game quality and performance.

Must Have

• 10+ years of experience with Unity
• 4+ years leading development teams
• Strong expertise in Unity and C#
• Ability to lead and mentor Unity frontend developers
• Establish coding standards and development workflows
• Drive architectural decisions for game features and performance
• Develop and maintain core gameplay features, UI, animations, and interactions
• Ensure smooth game performance across devices and platforms
• Optimize games for memory usage, loading times, and frame rate
• Experience building real-money casino games or similar interactive games
• Deep knowledge of game performance optimization, asset management, and UI frameworks
• Experience integrating games with APIs, backend services, or platform SDKs
• Solid written and verbal English skills

Good to Have

• Experience with mobile optimization (iOS/Android)
• Familiarity with shader development, animations, or VFX inside Unity
• Understanding of build pipelines, CI/CD, and version control best practices

Perks & Benefits

• Generous vacation schedule
• Brand New Laptop
• Supportive engineers and project managers
• Upbeat work environment

JOB OVERVIEW

Plan A Technologies is looking for a highly skilled Senior Lead Frontend Developer with strong Unity expertise to guide our team in building engaging high-performance social gaming experiences. This is a hands-on implementation role and will oversee frontend engineering, mentor developers, and collaborate closely with product, art, and backend teams to innovative gaming experiences.

The ideal candidate is both a technical expert and a natural leader — someone who enjoys coaching others, setting standards, and ensuring the quality and performance of our games as well as rolling up their sleeves.

Please note: you must have at least 10+ years of experience with Unity to be considered for this role and 4+ years leading teams

JOB RESPONSIBILITY

• Lead and mentor a team of Unity frontend developers, providing guidance, feedback, and support.
• Establish coding standards, best practices, and development workflows for the Unity team.
• Drive architectural decisions for game features, UI, game flow, and performance optimization.
• Review code and ensure overall code quality and maintainability.
• Develop and maintain core gameplay features, UI components, animations, and interactions using Unity and C#.
• Ensure smooth game performance across devices and platforms.
• Work closely with designers and artists to integrate assets and deliver polished, visually cohesive experiences.
• Optimize games for memory usage, loading times, and frame rate stability.
• Work with the Game Producer to translate requirements into technical plans.
• Partner with QA to guarantee stable releases and high-quality player experiences.
• Coordinate with backend/DevOps teams to ensure seamless integration of game logic, APIs, and services.
• Ensure games comply with any industry standards and certification requirements.

EXPERIENCE

• Strong expertise in Unity and C#.
• Experience leading teams: ability to guide, motivate, and grow a development team.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong ownership mindset, with the ability to make architectural decisions and defend them.
• Experience managing priorities, timelines, and delivery expectations.
• Experience building real-money casino games, or similar highly animated interactive games.
• Deep knowledge of game performance optimization, asset management, and UI frameworks.
• Experience integrating games with APIs, backend services, or platform SDKs.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Previous experience working with distributed teams.
• Have solid written and verbal English skills.
• Ability to maintain a positive work attitude.
• Initiative and drive to do great things.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with mobile optimization (iOS/Android).
• Familiarity with shader development, animations, or VFX inside Unity.
• Understanding of build pipelines, CI/CD, and version control best practices.

ABOUT THE COMPANY/BENEFITS

Plan A Technologies is an American software development and technology advisory firm that brings top-tier engineering talent to clients around the world. Our software engineers tackle custom product development projects, staff augmentation, major integrations and upgrades, and much more. The team is far more hands-on than the giant outsourcing shops, but still big enough to handle major enterprise clients.

Read more about us here: www.PlanAtechnologies.com .

Location: Work From Home 100% of the time, or come in to one of our global offices. Up to you.

Great colleagues and an upbeat work environment: You'll join an excellent team of supportive engineers and project managers who work hard but don't ever compete with each other.

Benefits: You’ll get a generous vacation schedule, Brand New Laptop, and other goodies.