Principal Sofware Engineer (Unity)

Overview

Principal Software Engineer (Unity) for the WWE Champions team, providing technical leadership for the Unity game client in a large live-service mobile codebase in Bangalore.

What you'll do

• Lead technical direction for major Unity client systems across gameplay, UI, live events, progression, offers, social features, and platform services.
• Define and evolve architecture for a large Unity/C# codebase with modularity, testability, performance, and long-term maintainability.
• Guide implementation of data-driven and live-ops systems including event configuration, feature flags, localization, and structured data pipelines like FlatBuffers.
• Collaborate with design, product, QA, analytics, economy, backend, and live-ops stakeholders to align client architecture with roadmap and operational needs.
• Improve engineering effectiveness via patterns, tooling, CI/build processes, code review standards, debugging practices, and technical documentation.
• Lead incident analysis and production issue resolution across client systems, platform integrations, monetization flows, and event features.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and influence cross-team technical decisions.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Deep expertise in C# and object-oriented software design.
• Strong experience with Unity in large-scale production environments, ideally mobile live-service titles.
• Proven track record designing and maintaining scalable client architecture for gameplay/UI/event systems or data-driven feature development.
• Experience with iOS and Android considerations including integrations, performance tuning, memory management, and release readiness.
• Strong debugging and profiling skills across runtime behavior, performance, memory, and production stability.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.