Engineering, Principal Engineer (Generalist)

Unknown Worlds is looking for an experienced principal engineer to help the team ship high-quality games on multiple platforms. Ideal candidates will have strong Unity, C#, C++ and mobile/console experience. The ability and interest to tackle a wide range of problems - architecting systems, gameplay implementation, maintaining editor tools is a must. Candidates should have excellent communication and collaboration skills and be self-managing and self-directing.

This is a remote position on a fully remote team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the software development effort for major game systems and features
• Provide client side support for network and online features
• Design, build, and maintain flexible, extensible solutions and tools that empower the team
• Coach junior programmers and promote team growth
• Optimize game code to meet project performance and memory requirements
• Collaborate closely with other disciplines to understand and best implement features
• Work with producers and quality assurance to ensure product quality and stability

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience shipping games on a variety of platforms (or equivalent)
• Expert level C# programming skills
• Familiarity with Unity
• Ability to optimize and work within the performance limitations of multiple development platforms
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Self-starter & self direction is essential

Preferences

• Experience with live service game development.
• Experience with automated build systems and unit test frameworks.
• Experience with multi-threaded programming, profiling, and optimization techniques.
• Familiarity with common mobile development challenges including UI/UX implementation