Lead Unity developer for Biome ecological app at Earthshot Labs

Earthshot Labs is seeking a talented and passionate Lead Unity Developer for its Biome project. Biome seeks to merge modern mobile location based gameplay with citizen science in order to engage large numbers of people worldwide to gather nature data that’s needed for ecological research and nature restoration verification. As the Lead Unity Software Engineer, you will help form a highly entrepreneurial and expert team that is looking to put in place the world’s leading platform for gathering nature data in the field.

Our ideal candidate is a seasoned technical leader and software engineer with previous experience developing highly successful Unity mobile games, focused on building beautiful, high performing and engaging games. You also know how to build and lead a team of engineers and mentor them on their career paths. You should enjoy working with other cross functional team members such as product managers, UX designers, and of course interfacing directly with end users in order to build the best possible product.

We are a 100% remote workforce. Once in a while we bring the team together in incredible places in nature to build deeper intimacy between team members and establish coherence, shared values, and common vision.

Responsibilities

• Work with our product manager, founders and designer to develop overall strategy and resulting new features and requirements
• Convert complex requirements into elegant working software
• Collaborate with other engineers, mostly remotely, to solve problems and build the product
• Create high-quality production code with automated tests
• Architect, implement and maintain new and existing services
• Champion quality and process improvements
• Champion and advocate mobile specific tools/technologies that impact mobile app development
• Mentor individual contributor software engineers, encouraging learning and growth while contributing to team goals.

Requirements

• 5+ years developing in Unity
• 2+ years’ experience managing people and leading a team
• 2+ years of mobile game development
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience developing clear and concise technical strategies for solving complex business challenges
• Ability to weigh the pros and cons of different architecture decisions and create a clear path forward
• Experience with private or public cloud infrastructure (OpenStack / AWS / GCP / Azure)
• Familiar with RESTful design principles and microservice architectural patterns
• Accustomed to maintaining a live service
• Experience with build systems such as Maven, Gradle, or Jenkins.

Pluses

• Previous experience launching multiple mobile titles
• Previous work experience with mobile marketing tech
• iOS and Android development experience, notification experience
• Experience creating tools and workflows in Unity Editor

Working at Earthshot is fun! We are a team that prioritizes coherence and real intimacy between people as the underlying goal beneath having a huge impact on the planet. We're on a sacred mission coming from love: to restore humanity's relationship with nature while having an amazing time.

We need people with world-class talent, superbly competent at what they do, emotionally intelligent and self-aware, open to deep friendships and love with the people they work with, heart-centered and passionate about restoring ecology. If this is you, give us a call!

Of course, we prioritize diversity in our community and hiring: BIPOC, LGBTQ+, gender balance, and global reach are deeply important for the planetary scale of impact and to harness the creative potential of deeply aligned people with varied backgrounds.

Slack Community invite: https://join.slack.com/t/earthshotclimate/shared_invite/zt-r43ona1e-PQtDs7_PbuUkiyYKbXy8~g

email: Patrick@earthshotclimate.com

Have a beautiful day!

Troy, Patrick, and the Earthshot team