Staff Software Engineer, Game Development (Unity & Cloud)

Scopely Explores Engineering team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer Game Development to provide technical leadership across our Unity-based game clients and cloud-hosted backend services. This role is ideal for an experienced game engineer who thrives in ambiguity drives architectural decisions and partners closely with product design and game teams to deliver scalable player-facing systems.

As a Staff Engineer you will operate beyond individual feature ownershipsetting technical direction influencing multiple teams and balancing near-term game development needs with long-term platform health and scalability.

• Lead the architecture and implementation of end-to-end game systems spanning Unity client development backend services data storage and cloud infrastructure.
• Drive technical vision and architectural decisions across client and server systems balancing performance scalability and maintainability.
• Partner closely with product design and game teams to translate high-level game concepts into concrete scalable technical solutions.
• Build and evolve shared game services client frameworks and backend components used across multiple games or features.
• Influence technical standards best practices and system design across teams through design reviews documentation and mentorship.
• Ensure reliability and operational excellence of live games by participating in code reviews writing tests and guiding troubleshooting and incident response.
• Mentor engineers across levels and act as a trusted technical leader within cross-functional teams.
• Required in-office presence: 3 days per week.

• BS MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant professional experience building and shipping production game systems using Unity.
• Strong experience designing and operating backend game services using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or similar cloud infrastructure.
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives across multiple systems or teams with a track record of influencing architecture and execution.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment adapt to changing priorities and solve complex problems with limited advance context.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience collaborating across engineering product and design.
• Must have shipped at least 3 titles on Mobile PC/Mac or Console
• Must have a passion for Pokémon Go

• Experience building and operating live games at scale.
• Experience working with geospatial data player data analytics pipelines or live-ops systems.
• Experience shaping tactical and strategic product direction as a senior technical partner.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and leading cross-team technical initiatives.

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company home to many of the worlds most beloved and enduring experiences including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time MONOPOLY GO! and Pokémon GO along with Stumble Guys Star Trek Fleet Command MARVEL Strike Force WWE Champions the Scrabble franchise Yahtzee With Buddies and many others. Across mobile web PC and console Scopely creates develops publishes and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.

Founded in 2011 Scopely is powered by its exceptional team including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe a distinctive tenet-driven culture and its proprietary technology platform Playgami. Together these strengths have fueled Scopelys position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like MONOPOLY GO! from the ground up or expanding through strategic acquisitions including the FoxNext GSN and Scopely Explore games businesses Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.

Recognized multiple times as one of the 100 Most Influential Companies in the World by TIME magazine and one of Fast Companys Worlds Most Innovative Companies and Best Workplaces for Innovators Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good creating meaningful connections vibrant communities and making life better through play.

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