Senior Software Engineer
Location: Brighton, United Kingdom. Employment type: Full‑time.
The opportunity
Senior Software Engineer to lead design and implementation of our business‑critical data platform.
High autonomy role, embedded in a team of senior software and data engineers, collaborating on the data platform problem and solution space.
Translating complex, ambiguous requirements into resilient software engineering solutions.
Tell us what needs built, not the other way around.
Effective use of data is a core focus for the broader company, and this team sits precisely in that space and delivers high‑quality solutions that solve real business problems and customer problems across thousands of Unity titles.
What you’ll be doing
- Not just handed JIRA tickets; you will be partnering with stakeholders, defining the problem space, pitching technical solutions and owning them through to production
- Identify reliability concerns and opportunities for improvement
- Pitch and deliver architectural improvements
- Influence the roadmap towards technical excellence in software and data engineering
What we’re looking for
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, and experience applying them within data engineering
- Expertise working with data streaming technologies such as Kafka and Flink
- Autonomous and effective in a team setting
- Experience working with non‑technical stakeholders and translating their needs to technical requirements for team‑wide delivery
Additional information
- Relocation support is not available for this position
- Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
- Commute subsidy
- Employee stock ownership
- Competitive retirement/pension plans
- Generous vacation and personal days
- Support for new parents through leave and family‑care programs
- Office food snacks
- Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support
- Employee Resource Groups
- Global Employee Assistance Program
- Training and development programs
- Volunteering and donation matching program
Additional requirements
This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.
Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law.
