Unity Team Lead
Job Summary
Job Description
The Unity Team Lead will be responsible for the front-end development of a large-scale mobile RPG, overseeing the client engineering team across multiple European locations. This role requires a strong technical background in Unity development, leadership skills, and experience managing distributed teams. Key responsibilities include leading and managing the client development team, architecting and maintaining a scalable game client, overseeing core utility systems, ensuring seamless system integration, supporting live operations, driving technical innovation, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with stakeholders. The ideal candidate will lead the technical direction and best practices to make sure the game is high-performing, scalable, and future-proof.
Must have:
- 10+ years of game development experience.
- Expert-level proficiency in Unity (C#).
- Strong knowledge of multiplayer systems.
- Experience leading distributed engineering teams.
- Understanding of networking and live operations.
- Strong debugging, profiling, and optimization skills.
- Proficiency in Russian and English.
Perks:
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Fully remote work.
- Shape the technical foundation of a mobile RPG.
- Collaborative and innovative work environment.
12 skills required
Job Details
We are looking for a Unity Team Lead to take full ownership of the front-end development for our large-scale mobile RPG. This senior leadership role will oversee the entire client engineering team across multiple locations in Europe, ensuring the game’s technical foundation is scalable, high-performing, and future-proof. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in Unity development, strong leadership skills, and experience managing multinational and distributed teams in a remote environment.
Responsibilities:
Requirements:
We offer:
Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage the entire client development team, setting technical direction and best practices across multiple locations.
- Architect and maintain a scalable, modular, and high-performance game client.
- Oversee the development of core utility systems, including rendering, networking, asset streaming, performance optimization, and framework components.
- Collaborate with gameplay, UI, and backend teams to ensure seamless system integration.
- Ensure the client-side infrastructure supports live operations, scalability, and cross-platform functionality.
- Drive technical innovation and adopt industry-leading tools and methodologies.
- Mentor and develop engineers, fostering a high-performance development culture across a distributed team.
- Work closely with producers and other stakeholders to align technical development with project goals.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in game development, with at least 5 years in a lead or senior leadership role.
- Expert-level proficiency in Unity (C#) and experience with large-scale game architectures.
- Strong knowledge of multiplayer systems, asset streaming, memory management, and performance optimization for mobile games.
- Proven experience leading and scaling distributed engineering teams across multiple locations.
- Deep understanding of networking, live operations, and cross-platform development.
- Experience working with backend services, APIs, and multiplayer frameworks.
- Strong debugging, profiling, and optimization skills for mobile platforms.
- Proficiency in Russian and English language.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and strategic planning abilities.
We offer:
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Fully remote work.
- A chance to shape the technical foundation of a cutting-edge, large-scale mobile RPG.
- A collaborative and innovative work environment with a multinational team.
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