We are currently seeking talented people to work with us.

Experienced / Senior Unity Game Developer

Flightless is looking for an Experienced or Senior Unity Game Developer with proven gameplay and real-time networking programming skills to join our studio working on current and future game titles.

You will be working closely with our team to help design, develop and deploy our upcoming game titles across multiple platforms. You'll have professional experience working in games and a solid knowledge of Unity workflow. You will be responsible for designing game architecture, game programming and testing, developing live-ops features, and helping to deploy our games.

Our preference is for the role to be onsite at our Mount Maunganui-based studio but there is an opportunity for remote work.

Responsibilities:

  • Designing and developing high performance game and real-time networking solutions in Unity for current and future game titles

  • Writing efficient, well commented C#

  • Effective communication and documentation

  • Upskilling other studio and remote team members

Requirements:

  • At least 4 years industry experience on multiple shipped game titles

  • Solid understanding of Unity and C#

  • Experience designing, developing and deploying real-time networked games using Unity Netcode, Mirror, Photon PUN/Bolt or similar frameworks

  • Excellent problem solving, time management and communication skills

  • NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa

Bonus Features:

  • Experience with multi-platform game development

  • Experience with live-ops features like player accounts, economy, cloud saves

  • Experience with Unity features like physics, custom editors, shaders and graphics programming, UI development, library/package development

  • Experience with performance analysis and optimisation

  • Experience with source control using Plastic, Git, or similar

  • Experience with sound programming using FMOD

We can offer:

  • A collaborative, creative and talented team environment

  • A competitive salary

  • Remote work or possible relocation options considered

About Us

Founded in 2005 as a digital design company, we have transitioned into a full-time games studio developing our own IP.

Our substantial commercial work experience spans multi-award winning projects across museum and visitor experiences, games and moving image, online and the visual arts.

Our approach produces original looking games that have a creative approach, a player centred focus, and often involve environmental themes.

We are based in beautiful Mount Maunganui, New Zealand.

Applications close
January 31, 2023

Contact

Please send your application / CV / portfolio to:

John O’Reilly
Creative Director, Flightless.

Email: john@flightless.co.nz

 

We are based in beautiful Mount Maunganui, New Zealand.
We’re always interested in talking to new collaborators and peers.
Please feel free to email, call or tweet us.