Job Description

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Position: Unity Architect

Groove Jones, a world-renowned and award-winning studio specializing in Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Interactive Entertainment technologies, is currently seeking a person to take on the role as Unity Architect.

As the Unity Architect at Groove Jones, you will be responsible for taking early stage concepts and transforming them into outstanding immersive experiences. Our ideal candidate is highly experienced with Unity/C# and can utilize their skill sets to identify and implement features—interactions, environments, and adding the sense of surprise and delight which are essential to enhancing the authenticity and sense of presence to our users. This role needs a strong technical leader with a broad range of technical software development skills and a passion for developing 3D interactive experiences.The ideal candidate needs to be a self starter and able to operate in a highly dynamic environment.

This is a full-time position located in Dallas, Texas.

Qualifications

• Exceptional knowledge of Unity (developing in C#)
• Experience leading a software development projects in a studio or team environment
• Proven knowledge in real time game engines , networking and graphics (optimization, shaders , etc.)
• Able to deliver fast prototypes for early stages experience design
• Strong understanding of SOLID principles and architectural design patterns applied to Unity’s ecosystem
• Unity optimization expertise for lower powered devices (Oculus Quest, older phones etc)
• Ability to communicate effectively between clients, developers, artists and stakeholders
• Ability to plan projects from a technical standpoint, identifying and designing development tasks based on client specifications
• Experience shipping Unity based games, apps and/or projects using 3D graphics
• Experience working in the Justice League
• Fly and spit fire

Plus:

• VR development experience
• AR development experience
• Multiplayer development experience
• Unreal Engine 4 experience

Duties and Responsibilities

• Come up with creative solutions and/or game ideas based on client requests
• Develop technical architecture of projects
• Manage, mentor and assist other developers on the project
• Research and development for solving completely new technology challenges that have not yet been solved

Applicants should submit their resume with a link to their portfolio. Resumes should be sent to careers@groovejones.com . We strongly suggest you send us a cover letter so we can get to know you better!

About Groove Jones

Groove Jones is an award-winning creative technology company that provides software solutions to advertising, entertainment, marketing, health, and training companies to engage with their audiences. It has a client list of numerous Fortune 500 companies like Amazon, AT&T, Comcast, HP, IBM, Intel, Mastercard, McDonald’s, Nestle, Samsung, and Under Armour.

We are artists, musicians, thinkers, creators, tinkerers, technologists, gamers, strategists, innovators, rebels, developers and most of all, digital fanboys (and fangirls) with a common interest: consistently delivering amazing, effective work for amazing clients. We love what we do.

For more information visit – www.groovejones.com