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Lead Unity Engineer

Big Run Studios is creating new and addicting mobile games focusing on traditionally underserved audiences. We want to spread fun games to everyone! Established in 2019 and headquartered in Oakland, CA, we are a group of game industry veterans who are passionate about delivering high quality casual competitive games that entertain players across all mobile platforms. We’re proud to work on the latest cutting edge technologies across all stages of development. We believe that success is built on three core values - Strong Player Communities, Experiences that Amaze, and making Games as a Lifestyle.

Description

As a Lead Client Engineer, you will work directly with the CTO as an individual contributor and manager, forming the backbone of our client technologies. You will help define the processes needed for ensuring an extraordinary product, and you will be empowered to research, innovate, and invent to get there. Everyone at Big Run is a leader, but not everyone is a manager. The team will rely on you in both capacities: light the way and help them grow.

Responsibilities

• Implement systems, end-to-end features, and user interfaces with Unity, web, and native technologies.
• Guide your team through the full development cycle: design, implementation, review, repeat.
• You help your team write quality code and understand that they are the first layer of QA: always checking their own work on device.
• Iterate collaboratively with artists, designers, producers, and engineers.
• Patiently learn other perspectives and share your own, building team consensus.
• Improve the quality and velocity of you and your team's work.
• Define key team metrics and out-perform them.
• Ensure that multiple features get all the way done in a single sprint.
• Ensure that your reports have what they need to succeed.
• Ensure that reports are focused, engaged, and making meaningful progress on their work.

Requirements

• 6+ years of development experience.
• In-depth knowledge of Unity, fluency in C#.
• Understand the main ideas of backend technologies.
• Demonstrable mastery of your toolset and flexibility to learn ours: IDE, version control, build tools, operational platforms, etc.
• Solid understanding of application design patterns, memory models, networking, security, and interop.
• Strong user-facing design sensibilities and a passion for great user experiences.
• Commitment to quality.
• Independently motivated and able to function effectively given little direction.
• Excellent communication skills, particularly through writing.
• Inspirational to others: share your great ideas with us.

Nice to haves

• Prior management experience.
• Up to date portfolio of relevant work.
• Go, Java, Objective-C, and/or Swift experience.
• Experience with React and Redux.
• Undergraduate or graduate degree in related fields.

Big Run provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.