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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. Unity Developer - **Company:** Topgolf International, Inc. - **Location:** Dallas, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Computer Animation, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), C Sharp (Programming Language), Profiling, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Linux, Memory Management, Performance Tuning, Release Management, Visual Effects, Curam Configuration Tools, Delivery Pipeline, State Machines, Backend, Git, Build Management, HLSL, Production Code, Restful APIs, Software Version Control - **Published:** September 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f810dc1ad193f7de ## About the Role * 6+ years of professional experience developing games or interactive applications in Unity, including experience owning systems and technical direction end to end. * Strong, demonstrated C# programming skills and a track record of shipping production-quality code. * Deep experience building gameplay systems, UI flows, game-state machines, and real-time interactive features. * Strong understanding of Unity performance optimization, profiling, memory management, and build configuration, including diagnosing subtle performance regressions at scale. * Experience leading or informally leading engineers: assigning work, reviewing code, and being accountable for a team's technical output. * Proven ability to set technical direction and make architecture decisions that other engineers build on. * Extensive experience with version control systems such as Git, including branching strategy and release management for a team. * Excellent communication skills and the ability to represent technical tradeoffs to designers, artists, QA, product, and leadership stakeholders. * A practical, delivery-focused mindset with strong ownership of quality, stability, and maintainability across the codebase., * Experience shipping commercial games, location-based entertainment, arcade games, sports games, or multiplayer/social games at scale. * Experience architecting integrations between Unity applications and REST APIs, backend services, or external hardware systems. * Experience with Linux-based Unity builds in production. * Experience designing or owning automated build pipelines, CI/CD, or build tooling for a team. * Deep familiarity with game telemetry, analytics, live-ops, or configuration-driven content. * Experience with physics-driven gameplay, ball tracking, projectile systems, or sports simulation. * Experience supporting and operating games in production environments, including incident response and on-call leadership. * Advanced knowledge of Unity addressables, asset bundles, localization, input systems, or custom editor tooling. * Prior experience as a lead, tech lead, or staff-level engineer on a games or interactive entertainment team. ## Description * Architect, develop, and optimize Unity games and interactive experiences for Topgolf venues, making key technical decisions for the systems you own. * Design gameplay systems, UI, animation, scoring, camera behavior, effects, and game-state logic that other engineers can build on. * Lead integration of Unity games with internal Topgolf services, APIs, tracking systems, configuration tools, and venue hardware. * Partner with designers and product owners to translate ambiguous game concepts into playable prototypes and production-ready experiences, shaping technical feasibility early. * Collaborate with artists and technical artists on asset pipelines, shaders, VFX, animations, and performance-conscious visuals, and set technical standards for quality. * Drive down defect rates by improving testability, diagnosing hard-to-reproduce issues, and coaching others on debugging complex venue and platform issues. * Write clean, maintainable, well-structured C# code and set the bar in code reviews. * Own and improve build, deployment, and development workflows across the Games team. * Drive performance optimization strategy for venue hardware and ensure games run reliably in a live entertainment environment at scale. * Lead technical planning, estimation, and sprint ceremonies; help break down ambiguous initiatives into shippable work. * Mentor mid-level and junior engineers, and help maintain existing game titles while driving architecture for new product initiatives., * Your team ships reliable, polished Unity features and systems that are fun for Guests and easy to maintain and extend. * You lead collaboration with design, art, QA, and product to move games from ambiguous concept to confident release. * You raise technical quality across the portfolio by setting standards and multiplying your impact through mentorship and delegation. * You understand that Topgolf games run in real venues, so stability, clarity, and operational reliability matter as much as gameplay, and you hold the team to that discipline. * You bring clarity to ambiguous problems, make sound technical calls under pressure, and help the team ship better games faster. ## Related Videos - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [How a Small Team Shrank a Microsoft Monorepo by 94%](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1236-how-a-small-team-shrank-a-microsoft-monorepo-by-94) - [WeAreDevelopers LIVE - "Fun and games - and all that comes with it", Back to BASIC & more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1719-wearedevelopers-live-fun-and-games-and-all-that-comes-with-it-back-to-basic-more) - [Docker exec without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1094-docker-exec-without-docker) - [Git for Code Reviews](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/429-git-for-code-reviews) - [The Impact of AI on Game Development and the Industry](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100297-the-impact-of-ai-on-game-development-and-the-industry) ## Related Articles - [What’s the Difference between a Junior, Mid, and Senior Developer?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/238-what-s-the-difference-between-a-junior-mid-and-senior-developer) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 112 - The True Crime of AI Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/421-dev-digest-112-the-true-crime-of-ai-development) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline)