As a Junior Unity Engineer you will be ready to make an impact in game development and in the creation of digital content. Your passion will be in creating and maintaining awesome games as well as learning to have the best and most efficient development experience possible. This is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract.

REQUIREMENTS

• At least 1 year of software development experience or completed post-secondary education in software development.
• At least 1 year of experience with Unity or completed Unity courses.
• A good level of educational experience in developing 3D games using Unity.
• Ability to code in C#.
• Understanding of programming principles, how systems work together, and some common design patterns.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Basic understanding of how to use git in day-to-day work.
• But most of all. You will LOVE creating video games.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Develop entertaining, educational mobile games using the Unity engine for multiple platforms, following game development best practices. Our games are played by millions of players young and old.
• Develop quality implementations that are performant, technically sound, and reusable by other developers.
• Produce clean, efficient, and optimized code.
• Be part of a cross-disciplinary team that uses an Agile process.
• Collaborate with designers and UX/UI to get thorough specs and flesh out the best way to get new ideas into the game (Work through storyboards, wireframes, feature specs etc.).
• Contribute to estimating user stories and breaking them down into technical tasks.
• Work closely with the Art team to get awesome artwork into the games while being mindful of performance and platform constraints.
• Test your own code extensively and work closely with the QA team to resolve bugs and hit sprint goals with a high production quality.
• Write technical documentation as necessary to minimize legacy knowledge.
• Create functional and engaging features that will delightfully surprise our users.
• Be part of a tight game development team looking to iterate fast on a fun concept and then building it out.
• Innovate and iterate on process, systems and technology to deliver child-centric games

HOW YOU’LL DO IT:

• We want someone who can zoom into the details and zoom out to embrace the big picture.
• Be the champion for the user and have real input on the end-user product!
• We hope you’ll enrich our team with your enthusiasm and passion, both for games and for life.
• Be highly motivated to work in the game industry.
• Be confident in your abilities, contributing as part of a cross-disciplinary team.
• With curiosity and a genuine desire to improve children’s education through our apps.