The adecuado candidate will have extensive full-time Unity programming experience in games. As a lead game developer, you will be responsible for leading the development team. This includes design, development, coding, testing, and debugging.

You will also coordinate the development team's schedule and ensure effective communication between team members and other areas, set up a development pipeline, estimate task completion, write technical design documents and assist the producer in having a vision for the future For this role, you will join the client's original team ahead of the launch of a cloud-streamed party game and take over day-to-day engineering delivery of its post-launch roadmap: social features, asynchronous multiplayer, themed content updates and, later, multiplayer across households. You will work as an extension of the client's studio in Helsinki. The game is built in Unity 6.3 (C#, URP, FMOD) and streams from the cloud to a TV, with phones acting as controllers (TypeScript/React).

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Lead the client engineering team and taking over from the original developers

Own the architecture and SDK/platform integration

Plan and estimate each update with the producer

Set up the pipeline, tooling and telemetry

Oversee backend-facing features such as async multiplayer

Code review and mentoring

Requirements

5+ years of experience as a Unity game developer

Previous experience as Lead Developer of a team of more than 6 developers

Leading the development of at least one large game title from A-Z A passion for video games

Availability for daily working-hours overlap with Helsinki (EET/EEST)

Shipped client engineering work on a multiplayer, party, casual or two-screen game; live-ops experience on a live title is a strong plus





Strong skills in Unity having delivered a few titles at least

Excellent architectural abilities

Capable of mentoring juniors and regulars

Should be familiar with performance bottlenecks and ways to resolve them, multi-threading, OS concepts and optimization

Excellent communication skills

Strong reporting and documentation skills

Flexibility and ability to adapt to new technological changes as per project need

Ability to design and estimate backend-facing client features such as asynchronous multiplayer, persistent state, leaderboards and session sync

Live-ops delivery experience: data-driven content pipelines, seasonal content, and re-planning quickly in response to player feedback and live KPIs

DESIRABLE PLUSES

Very strong debugging skills

Experienced with word, puzzle, party or board games

Experience working with React, TypeScript or React Three Fiber on controller side

Experience on cloud-streamed or TV based game platforms

Solid technical foundation (e.g.

Computer

Science / Maths Degree or equivalent)

Benefits

Permanently remote position An opportunity to hone and improve your skills by applying them to a diverse variety of engaging projects

Be part of an international group with offices worldwide

Career growth and development

Working closely with a team of like-minded people in a fast-paced, multicultural environment

Ongoing training and professional self-improvement opportunities

Flexible working hours An inclusive culture and open communication

At Magic Media, our passion lies in gaming. Our vision is to create and deliver engaging and interesting games for our clients. We can deliver this high-quality work on any platform, whether it be on a console, PC, or mobile. We know that reputation and results go hand-in-hand. Therefore, we work hard to find experts and talented creators to deliver the best results.

📌 Lead Unity Developer (Madrid)
🏢 Magic Media
📍 Madrid