Senior Software Engineer- Unity

Scopely · Culver City

Software Engineeringposted 2mo ago

Scopely is looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Unity) to join our WWE Champions team in Bangalore on a hybrid basis!

At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.

WWE Champions is our ultimate and unique RPG puzzle match game featuring WWE superstars and legends across mobile and PC platforms. WWE Champions is the most downloaded WWE game to date, with a highly engaged and passionate community.

Role Summary

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in developing and maintaining the game’s Unity client across a large live-service mobile game codebase. You will contribute to 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 combines strong technical execution with sound architectural judgment in a complex production environment.

What You’ll Do

Design, build, and maintain major client systems across gameplay, UI, live events, progression, offers, social features, and platform services.
Contribute to the architecture of a large Unity/C# codebase with an emphasis on modularity, testability, performance, and long-term maintainability.
Implement and support 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 deliver scalable client solutions aligned with roadmap and operational needs.
Improve engineering effectiveness through strong coding practices, tooling, CI/build processes, code reviews, debugging workflows, and technical documentation.
Investigate and resolve production issues across mobile client systems, platform integrations, monetization flows, and live event features.
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, contribute to team technical decisions, and help raise the overall quality bar for the engineering organization.

What We’re Looking For

Experience & Technical Skills

5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience on production game clients or similarly complex interactive applications.
Strong expertise in C# and object-oriented software design.
Solid experience with Unity in production environments, ideally on mobile live-service titles.
Experience building and maintaining client systems for gameplay, UI, event systems, or data-driven feature development.
Experience with mobile platform considerations for iOS and Android, including integrations, performance tuning, memory management, and release readiness.
Understanding of client-side data pipelines, remote content/configuration, serialization, and schema-driven systems.
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.
Familiarity with testing strategies and quality practices in medium to large codebases.

Cross-Functional and Game-Specific Knowledge

Familiarity with live-service game development, including progression systems, offers/monetization, event systems, social features, and analytics.
Experience partnering with backend and live-ops teams to support content updates and feature rollouts.
Ability to make thoughtful technical tradeoffs in a content-heavy, operationally active game environment.
Comfort working across teams and contributing to initiatives with multiple dependencies.

Soft Skills & Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Demonstrated mentorship and knowledge-sharing ability.
High ownership, sound judgment, and a practical approach to solving complex technical problems.
Passion for games and for building stable, maintainable systems that support great player experiences.

About Scopely

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s 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 Scopely’s 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 Company's "World's 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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