Senior Unity Developer (6 months FTC)

About the role

Metavision Studios, part of ITV's Tech, Data & Product division, is looking for a senior Unity developer for a 6-month full-time fixed-term contract. The role develops and maintains live operations of legacy projects, helping the studio expand its interactive media portfolio into legacy mobile and console spaces. Candidates from across the UK are considered, and remote work is open if the candidate is not close to White City.

Key responsibilities

• Take design and technical ownership of existing titles, maintaining, stabilising and evolving legacy codebases while adding new features and updates.
• Migrate legacy projects to later versions of Unity and other platforms.
• Transfer and manage ownership of app stores from partners to new holding groups.
• Lead ongoing live operations on live projects and their update lifecycle.
• Maintain and evolve serverless infrastructure and third-party data hosting for multiplayer, matchmaking and leaderboards.
• Work with the team to turn ideas into specified features and updates, reporting to the Programming Lead and Design.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues across live titles without disrupting the player experience.
• Help set technical standards, tools and best practices for mobile and console development.

Required profile

• At least 3 published games and 1 live service title.
• Demonstrable experience using AI tools to assist workflow.
• Ability to quickly understand, stabilise and document legacy codebases with limited documentation.
• Strong interpersonal skills, working with mid-to-senior colleagues in large organisations, and proven ability to self-motivate and work independently and collaboratively.
• University degree in CS, game development or programming (desirable).

Required skills

• C# and significant Unity experience.
• Live-ops platform experience and mobile gaming and monetisation experience.
• Serverless architecture experience.
• Bitbucket/Git/GitHub, IronSource and Beamable or similar live-ops platforms.
• Social and multiplayer features (leaderboards, matchmaking).
• HTML, CSS and JavaScript; PixiJS and Phaser (listed as desirable).

What we offer

• Salary of £50,000 to £55,000.
• Flexible working options.
• Generous holiday allowance, annual bonus opportunity and competitive pension contribution.
• Opportunity to buy ITV shares and wellbeing and volunteering days.