Lead Unity Engineer

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Magnopus is on a mission to bridge the physical & digital divide with our groundbreaking set of client applications powered by the Connected Spaces Platform; an open-source SDK that is paving the way for the future of the spatial internet. Using the client applications, creators can build and publish spatial experiences that are as interconnected and accessible as the web pages of today. This innovative platform ensures seamless experiences across multiple technologies, allowing users to navigate through diverse digital and physical spaces without the barriers of switching identities, devices, or interfaces.

As a Lead level programmer specialising in Unity, you will play a crucial role in the advancement of our iOS client. Your contributions will be instrumental in evolving our platform to support the development of interoperable and accessible cross-reality spaces and experiences. 

By joining Magnopus, you will not only work on enhancing the platform’s capabilities, but also contribute to our vision of building an open and accessible spatial internet for all.

Responsibilities

• Leading and taking accountability for the engineering efforts within your area, ensuring high-quality results aligned with studio requests and product requirements.
• Supervising system design and implementation under the direction of Product Owners, consulting with domain experts as needed to ensure optimal solutions.
• Communicating product goals clearly to the team, ensuring their work meets objectives and enhances quality standards.
• Identifying and communicating risks and dependencies, proposing effective solutions to product management.
• Collaborating with product management, program management, and other leads to provide accurate planning information and maintain project focus and quality.
• Working with engineers and product owners to develop and maintain a project backlog, ensuring tasks are recorded accurately with clear delivery requirements.
• Facilitating cross-discipline communication, delegating tasks appropriately, and fostering collaboration between team members.
• Mentoring and developing engineers on the product, fostering a learning culture within the team.
• Proposing innovative solutions during design and development, considering performance, memory, storage, and bandwidth trade-offs.
• Defining, documenting, and communicating technical goals, values, and processes. Organising product layout and version control strategies.
• Promoting continuous improvement and knowledge sharing within the engineering team.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of Unity, C#, and AR frameworks; excellent proficiency with industry-standard tech stack/tools.
• Strong debugging and profiling skills; proficient in solving problems across all project areas.
• Proficient in picking up new languages; experience in multithreaded programming; capable of developing impartial and objective code.
• Skilled in developing modular software with clean, well-documented APIs; able to design and implement large, complex, or critical systems.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to plan, design, and implement solutions to a broad range of technical challenges.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to convey technical issues to non-technical staff and write clear technical documentation.
• Ability to collaborate, negotiate, and compromise with other developers on technical solutions.
• Proven experience running teams in an Agile/Scrum environment; understanding of role within a scrum framework.
• Experience mentoring, prioritising, and planning for engineering teams; closing out short-form projects and applying learnings in a lead context.
• Strong interpersonal skills, understanding the needs and dependencies of others.
• Consistently demonstrates the ability to develop features to a very high standard; manages multiple concurrent projects effectively.

Nice to have

• Experience of developing XR applications.
• Experience of developing multiplayer experiences.
• Familiarity with spatial anchoring solutions.

About us

Magnopus is an experience focused technology company founded by a team of Oscar-winning artists, designers, and engineers from games, films, and other unusual places. We’re passionate about creating rich experiences that unite the physical and digital worlds.

Because we’re building the future, we endeavour to create a diverse, creative workplace where people from many perspectives collaborate across disciplines to create amazing things together. We invest in our employee's progression with ongoing education and mentorship opportunities, and support their happiness and productivity through generous health care, time off, and other benefits. 

We try to foster a safe environment where we can take risks, and learn from our failures. While we value individual talents, we favour collaboration more. We believe that the leadership of the company works for the employees, not the other way around. We feel strongly that our employees guide who we are as a company and the work we create, so we look for characteristics of curiosity, empathy, respect, honesty, and courage in every candidate.

Though we’ve delivered a lot of crazy stuff, here are a few you can check out at home:

Mission: ISS

Disney Pixar Coco VR

Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab

The Lion King - Virtual Production

Elixir

Please be aware that, if you are selected for a position, you will be required to provide proof of your right to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. This may involve providing original documents such as a passport or residence permit. Failure to provide the necessary documentation may affect your employment eligibility.