Lead Unity Architect

Summary

Join GOLF+, a company obsessed with bringing the joy of golf to everyone, as a Senior Unity Architect. We're expanding our immersive VR golf experience and need a leader to design scalable and performant systems. You'll lead a team, establish best practices, and collaborate with various departments. This role offers flexible paid time off, parental leave, competitive healthcare, a 401k plan with matching, remote work options, a golf stipend, and yearly company trips. If you're passionate about VR and scalable systems, this is the perfect opportunity.

Requirements

• Proven ability to build and lead a team of 4-5 engineers
• Experience mentoring team members, providing constructive feedback, and fostering a collaborative development environment
• Extensive experience building scalable systems in Unity using C#
• Shipped multiple titles and understand the complexities of optimizing applications
• Proven experience designing and implementing architectural patterns and systems that scale to support a growing player base and evolving game requirements
• Deep knowledge of Unity profiling tools, memory management, rendering pipelines, and performance optimization techniques
• Strong understanding of multiplayer architectures and real-time networking solutions
• Proficiency in data structures and algorithms to optimize code for performance, maintainability, and reliability
• Comfort with learning new tools and technologies to address challenges as they arise
• Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

• Lead the architectural design and implementation of scalable, performant, and maintainable systems in Unity
• Establish best practices and coding standards to ensure code quality and maintainability across the engineering team
• Provide technical leadership by conducting code reviews and driving architectural discussions
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies, frameworks, and tools to enhance the development pipeline
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and gameplay engineers to develop robust solutions that align with the product vision
• Optimize rendering, physics, and gameplay systems to deliver smooth and immersive VR experiences
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex performance and stability issues across platforms
• Ensure seamless integration between client-side systems and backend services
• Build prototypes to test new concepts and gameplay ideas quickly
• Work closely with QA to establish automated testing workflows and tools to improve reliability

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with VR development tools and techniques. Meta Quest or other platforms
• Familiarity with web technologies, including JavaScript and React, is a plus

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off in addition to 10 government holidays
• Biological, adoptive, and foster parent paid time off
• Competitive medical and dental insurance for employees and their dependents
• Cover the full cost of the employee's premium for the base plan
• 401k plan and contribution matching
• Remote work
• Yearly stipend for golf lessons and equipment
• Yearly Company Trip