Lead Software Engineer (Gaming)

Job Details:

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Bangalore (In-office)

Reporting To: CTO

Job Description: We seek an experienced, highly technical, and exceptionally driven Lead Software

Engineer to develop a world-class mobile games engineering team in India. You should be comfortable

driving change, leading and motivating teams, providing direct feedback, solving complex problems, and,

most importantly, establishing a high standard of performance.

Your team will be responsible for implementing highly performant, optimized, scalable, and easily

maintainable code for an ambitious FPS shooter game.

Responsibilities:


- Establish and maintain a world-class engineering culture appropriate for our mobile games team.
- Set performance standards for engineering excellence and guide junior engineers to help them
- learn and improve.
- Address the most significant challenges of a shooter game, such as hit accuracy,
- server-authoritative gameplay, animations, memory utilization, and performance optimizations.




- Collaborate with product managers/producers, designers, and others to understand game
- features and break down engineering tasks for the team.
- Regularly run profilers to ensure code performance and quality.
- Lead code review sessions.
- Guarantee optimal performance, quality, and stability of the game.
- Develop live operations tools, editor tools, and automation.

Qualifications:


- Minimum Experience: 10+ years.
- Extreme technical depth and willingness to spend at least 30% of time doing hands-on coding.
- Ability to reasonably estimate and plan tasks and features.
- Expert understanding of multithreading, asynchronous operations, and thread-secure code.
- Proficient at profiling games to identify bottlenecks and performance issues.
- Maniacal adherence to technical best practices and guidelines with a creative problem-solving
- approach.
- Deep understanding of data-oriented programming and the Unity DO

📌 Lead Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Playdawn
📍 Bengaluru