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Unity Game Software Engineer
2 years ago
Job Posting Title
Unity Game Software EngineerSummary
BigFish is hiring a Senior Unity Game Software Engineer to work on game feature development for our hit mobile phone game EverMerge. Bring your expert coding skills and passion for game development to one of our most successful games.
This role requires a deep understanding of Unity and C# game software development, and the ability to understand and work within a mature and complex existing codebase. Creativity, attention to detail, high coding standards, and maintaining the stability of the codebase are essential.
You will be interfacing with internal product teams and external developers, so excellent communication and collaboration skills are also important for this position.
Come be part of the engineering team that will help drive EverMerge’s future growth!Responsibilities
- Work with designers, artists, QA, product managers and producers to develop high quality game features for EverMerge.
- Maintain game stability and high code quality.
- Accurately estimate development timeframes so delivery date of new features is predictable.
- Interface with the external game development studio and understand their processes and coding standards.
- Become familiar with EverMerge codebase in order to not only implement new game features, but also offer technical advice or help troubleshoot issues.
- Effectively communicate with technical and non-technical parties to ensure understanding of priorities, services, features, and business requirements.
Additional Responsibilities
- Learn Big Fish Games technical products, services, and best practices and how to use them in our games.
- Be flexible in order to adapt to the shifting priorities that come from working with the complexities of live game operations.
- Proactively find solutions for problems and obstacles. Help improve our processes and documentation.
Qualifications
- Senior level software engineering experience.
- 5+ years of Unity engine experience, including building mobile game clients with both Xcode and Android Studio.
- Proficiency in developing object-oriented software, with deep experience in C#.
- Know how to profile and optimize code for performance.
- Capability to isolate and fix difficult bugs.
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills, both spoken and written.
- Enjoy working with people and collaborating with teammates.
- A passion and ability to understand complex technical systems and be able to navigate them.
- Experience estimating effort and establishing timelines for projects as well as communicating associated risk.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with server-side development.
- An understanding of server systems and how they interact with games.
- Experience shipping a game on iOS and Android.
About Big Fish
Celebrating 20 years delighting players worldwide, Big Fish Games is a mobile games category leader in Casual & Social Casino.
Big Fish operates an extensive portfolio of popular games across genres, including EverMerge, Cooking Craze, Gummy Drop, Big Fish Casino, Jackpot Magic Slots, and Fairway Solitaire. Our core values: All about the player, Talent Unleashed, Collective Brilliance and Good Business, Good Citizen.
Why Big Fish?
At Big Fish Games, we make the best games, the best possible way. We show up every day to enchant and delight our players and contribute to building a great company. We think big because that’s what our players demand.
B ig Fish Games is an equal opportunity employer. We bring unique talents together to build something special that’s why we welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.
Our Values
- All about the Player
- Talent Unleashed
- Collective Brilliance
- Good Business Good Citizen
The US based roles may require registration with the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) and/or other gaming jurisdictions in which we operate.
Location
Remote - WA (Job Posting)Job family
SoftwareContract Type
RegularTime Type
Full timeCompany
Big Fish Games
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