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# Principal Software Engineer (Unity)

- **Company:** Scopely, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Franchise
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Apple IOS, Build Automation, C Sharp (Programming Language), Code Review, Continuous Integration, Serialization, Software Debugging, Memory Management, Video Game Development, Object-Oriented Software Development, Performance Tuning, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Mobile Os, Delivery Pipeline, Ios Frameworks, Backend, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Enterprise Integration, Build Process, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/c95991df-8bbc-455e-8f3f-44b023570832

## About the Role

* Experience Technical Skills

 * 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience on large production game clients or similarly complex interactive applications
 * Deep expertise in C# and object-oriented software design
 * Strong experience with Unity in large-scale production environments, ideally on mobile live-service titles
 * Proven track record designing and maintaining scalable client architecture for gameplay systems, UI frameworks, event systems, or data-driven feature development
 * Experience with mobile platform development considerations for iOS and Android, including integrations, performance tuning, memory management, and release readiness
 * Strong understanding of client-side data pipelines, remote content/configuration, serialization, and schema-driven system
 * Experience working with build automation, CI/CD workflows, and release pipelines for mobile games
 * Strong debugging and profiling skills across runtime behavior, performance, memory, and production stability
 * Demonstrated ability to establish testing strategy and quality standards in large codebases

Cross-Functional and Domain Knowledge

 * Deep familiarity with live-service game development, including progression systems, gacha/offers, PvP or event systems, social features, analytics, and monetization
 * Experience partnering with backend and live-ops teams to support fast iteration on time-bound content and feature rollouts
 * Ability to make strong technical tradeoffs in a content-heavy, operationally active game environment
 * Comfort leading cross-team initiatives with multiple dependencies and ambiguous constraints

Soft Skills & Education

 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
 * Excellent communication, technical leadership, and stakeholder alignment skills
 * Strong mentorship and coaching ability across multiple experience levels.
 * High ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to bring clarity to complex technical problems
 * Passion for games and for building stable, maintainable systems that support great player experiences

## Description

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for the Game's Unity client, shaping architecture, engineering standards, and delivery across a large live-service mobile game codebase. You will drive high-impact initiatives spanning gameplay systems, live-ops features, client infrastructure, performance, build reliability, platform integrations, and maintainability. This role is ideal for an engineer who can balance strategic technical direction with pragmatic execution in a complex production environment.

 * Lead the technical direction of major client systems across gameplay, UI, live events, progression, offers, social features, and platform services
 * Define and evolve architecture for a large Unity/C# codebase with an emphasis on modularity, testability, performance, and long-term maintainability
 * Guide implementation of data-driven and live-ops systems, including event configuration, feature flags, localization, and content delivered through structured data pipelines such as FlatBuffers
 * Partner closely with design, product, QA, analytics, economy, backend, and live-ops stakeholders to align client architecture with roadmap and operational needs
 * Improve engineering effectiveness through better patterns, tooling, CI/build processes, code review standards, debugging practices, and technical documentation
 * Lead difficult incident analysis and production issue resolution across mobile client systems, platform integrations, monetization flows, and event features
 * Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, influence cross-team technical decisions, and raise the overall quality bar for the engineering organization


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