Lead Software Engineer (Gaming)

1 Month ago • 10 Years + • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced and driven Lead Software Engineer to build a world-class mobile games engineering team in India. The role involves leading and motivating teams, solving complex problems, and establishing high performance standards. The team will be responsible for implementing highly performant, optimized, scalable, and maintainable code for an FPS shooter game. Responsibilities include establishing an engineering culture, guiding junior engineers, addressing game-specific challenges like hit accuracy and performance optimization, collaborating with product managers and designers, performing code reviews, and developing live operations and automation tools.
Must have:
  • Lead mobile games engineering team
  • Solve complex problems
  • Implement performant code
  • Address hit accuracy/server-authoritative gameplay
  • Collaborate with product managers/designers
  • Perform code reviews
  • Develop tools and automation
  • 10+ years of experience
  • 30% hands-on coding
  • Estimate and plan tasks
  • Expert in multithreading/async operations
  • Proficient in game profiling
  • Adhere to technical best practices
  • Deep understanding of Unity DOTS
Good to have:
  • Familiarity with backend/networking

Job Details

Lead Software Engineer (Gaming)


Job Details:


Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Bangalore (In-office)

Reporting To: CTO



Job Description: 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.



Qualifications:



  • Minimum Experience: 10+ 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.



Please note: This position is for one of Playdawn's clients, and successful candidates will be hired directly by the client, not by Playdawn.

Our client is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. They are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and have equal access to opportunities, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, or other protected characteristics. They believe that diversity fuels innovation and creativity, and they strive to create an environment where everyone can thrive and contribute to shared success.


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