Lead Unity/Engine Developer

On The Spot Development is a software development company that builds R&D teams for heavily invested startups and tech companies from the UK, EU, and Israel.

This job opportunity is for a position within one of our teams. You will be directly employed by On The Spot and will collaborate closely with our partner companies, contributing to their product's journey.

Hello, we are Unity Playworks!

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We are Unity’s (after merger with ironSource) creative solution that empowers app businesses to drive incremental growth through creatives. Our technology supports all stages of their creative process, from concept iteration to creative production, delivery, reporting, and optimization.

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Playworks provides the best quality tools for playable production in-house and is a “go to” solution to produce Playable Ads. We are empowering the growth of the top growing companies in both AppStore/GooglePlay. Creatives made with Playworks are shown >10 billion times across the globe monthly.

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• Playworks Playable Plugin official doc (overview)
• Implemented engine feature - realtime shadows
• Demo game
• Sponza rendering demo
• Demo1, Demo2, Demo3

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Playworks Playable Plugin is currently looking for a Unity developer for the Lead Engine Developer position.

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As part of our mission to provide games studios with the tools to enhance their creative production process for HTML5/JS Playable Ads. Playable ads are lightweight web mini-games which provide users with a real gameplay experience, quickly teach how to play and engage in the game to achieve wow effect in under 30 seconds.

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To achieve that we are building a custom lightweight JS runtime for Unity to allow our customers to achieve full game experience with small build size and great technical performance on all variety of mobile devices in Web context.

• Suggest major technical directions for Playable Plugin
• Leading R&D - research and develop engine runtime features in various parts of the engine: rendering, physics, audio, assets management, code compilation, etc.
• Working closely with the team: improving work culture, processes, communication, best technical practices, growing the people, unblock team if they are stuck
• Improve the product in various metrics: FPS, RAM usage, loading time, time to market, build size by optimizing engine systems
• Growing the culture of writing/maintaining internal/public documentation

• Identify the best potential solution for tooling around playable ads build size. Write down technical requirement document with described feature requirements, expected improvements in terms of metrics, estimations of implementation
• Research glTF/glb formats, suggest feature to implement
• Review new Unity 6 features and come up with comprehensive analysis about implementation priorities for these features.

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• Wide and in depth understanding of Unity3d engine with at least 5 years of professional experience
• Great Math skills for computer graphics/physics applications
• Great skill in technical optimisation
• Great communication skills
• In depth understanding of C# language and .NET platform
• Great level of independent problem solving
• Upper-Intermediate level of English (B2+)

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• Web games related experience - JS, Unity.WebGL, Three.JS, Playcanvas
• C++
• WASM
• Experience in low level Graphics libraries - OpenGL, WebGL, GLES 
• Engine development experience