Job description
Manager, Software Engineering - Web-based authoring
Company Overview
Unity [NYSE: U] is the world’s leading game engine, powering play for more than 3 billion consumers each month. The top mobile games in the world, the most played PC indie titles, the most innovative console games, and virtually all of the top XR and Web Games are developed, deployed, and grown in Unity. Unity also enables teams across industries like automotive, manufacturing, and healthcare to design, simulate, and collaborate in 3D — closing the gap between ideas and reality.
Job Summary
Unity Studio is our cutting-edge, browser-based real-time 3D authoring tool. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the talented team bringing Unity Projects directly to the web browser. You will lead a full-stack development team with both backend and frontend engineering functions, focusing on empowering your team to operate at maximum velocity and orchestrating the engineering lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the vital bridge between Product Management, Design, cross-functional Unity teams, and the Studio engineers.
- Champion technical excellence by orchestrating collaboration on the Studio codebase, guiding architectural decisions, overseeing PR reviews, and managing a streamlined release process.
- Balance product velocity with platform health by actively listening to the development team and translating technical pain points into actionable roadmaps.
- Drive engineering execution by optimizing agile methodologies, unblocking developers, and ensuring the predictable delivery of high-quality features.
- Foster a high-performance, supportive culture by mentoring and coaching your team, actively guiding their professional development and career growth.
Requirements / Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience managing full-stack engineering teams.
- Hands-on experience optimizing agile workflows and managing reliable, high-quality release cycles.
- Ability to balance live product stability with long-term research initiatives.
- Familiarity with full-stack development and architectural decision-making.
- Ability to act as a bridge between Engineering, Product Management, Design, and cross-functional teams.
- Experience scaling platform architecture to support ambitious, long-term goals.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in larger companies, acting as the interface with other teams and external partners.
- Experience with the Unity Editor and its ecosystem.
- Experience creating gaming applications or 3D industry applications.
- Experience with backend technology (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes...).
- Experience with DevOps pipelines and release processes.
- Experience integrating AI capabilities into product workflows.
Location
Remote, Germany
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Base salary: €86.300—€129.500 EUR.
- Eligible for equity awards and participation in company incentive plans.
- Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance.
- Commute subsidy and employee stock ownership.
- Competitive retirement/pension plans.
- Generous vacation and personal days.
- Support for new parents through leave and family-care programs.
- Mental Health and Wellbeing programs.
Equal Opportunity Statement
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.
