Lead Unity Software Engineer (Gameplay)

Playrix is a top mobile game developer seeking a Lead Unity Software Engineer to drive technical development, lead a team, and implement AI-first practices. The role involves people management, solving complex technical problems, and ensuring game software quality.

• People management: responsible for development, hiring/firing, team evaluation
• Developing processes within teams (both at the team level and at the project level), including the implementation and scaling of AI practices
• Producing: solving complex technical problems on projects, developing solution architecture and ensuring rapid implementation
• Supervising the stability and quality of game software
• Carrying out code review and design review
• Programming and refactoring of game logic

• At least 3 years of experience in developing commercial projects in C++ and/or Unity
• Experience in developing projects released in production
• At least one year of experience managing a team of programmers (3+ people)
• An understanding of AI infrastructure and modern tools, and the ability to integrate them into the development process
• Confident knowledge of modern C++ 14/17 standards, as well as STL
• Experience working with popular game engines (Unity, Unreal, Godot, Cocos2D, Defold, etc.)
• Experience developing casual mobile games

• Open communication and transparency in decision making, exchange of experience within teams
• A focus on code quality and reliability
• An emphasis on developing each specialist's product ideas
• Time to play the games that you're developing
• The ability to switch out processes and approaches for more efficient ones without lengthy approvals or bureaucracy
• Clear opportunities for development into technical director, programming manager or project manager
• Flexibility at work: flexible schedule and work from anywhere in the world
• Voluntary health insurance for employees and their children, reimbursement for psychologist sessions
• Fully paid vacation days and sick leave
• Reimbursement for gym memberships, fitness apps, massages, spa and recovery treatments
• Payment for conferences, courses, internal conferences, foreign language courses
• Five additional paid days off per year for formal education activities
• Offline events, corporate parties, competitions, quizzes, hackathons, online fitness challenges
• Merch store with internal currency for gifts
• Reimbursement for pet-related expenses