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We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.\nWWE Champions is our ultimate and unique RPG puzzle match game featuring WWE superstars and legends across mobile and PC platforms. WWE Champions is the most downloaded WWE game to date, with a highly engaged and passionate community.\nWhat You’ll Do\nAs a Principal Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for the Game’s Unity client, shaping architecture, engineering standards, and delivery across a large live-service mobile game codebase. You will drive high-impact initiatives spanning gameplay systems, live-ops features, client infrastructure, performance, build reliability, platform integrations, and maintainability. This role is ideal for an engineer who can balance strategic technical direction with pragmatic execution in a complex production environment.\nLead the technical direction of major client systems across gameplay, UI, live events, progression, offers, social features, and platform services\nDefine and evolve architecture for a large Unity/C# codebase with an emphasis on modularity, testability, performance, and long-term maintainability\nGuide implementation of data-driven and live-ops systems, including event configuration, feature flags, localization, and content delivered through structured data pipelines such as FlatBuffers\nPartner closely with design, product, QA, analytics, economy, backend, and live-ops stakeholders to align client architecture with roadmap and operational needs\nImprove engineering effectiveness through better patterns, tooling, CI/build processes, code review standards, debugging practices, and technical documentation\nLead difficult incident analysis and production issue resolution across mobile client systems, platform integrations, monetization flows, and event features\nMentor senior and mid-level engineers, influence cross-team technical decisions, and raise the overall quality bar for the engineering organization\nWhat We’re Looking For\nExperience Technical Skills\n8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience on large production game clients or similarly complex interactive applications\nDeep expertise in C# and object-oriented software design\nStrong experience with Unity in large-scale production environments, ideally on mobile live-service titles\nProven track record designing and maintaining scalable client architecture for gameplay systems, UI frameworks, event systems, or data-driven feature development\nExperience with mobile platform development considerations for iOS and Android, including integrations, performance tuning, memory management, and release readiness\nStrong understanding of client-side data pipelines, remote content/configuration, serialization, and schema-driven system\nExperience working with build automation, CI/CD workflows, and release pipelines for mobile games\nStrong debugging and profiling skills across runtime behavior, performance, memory, and production stability\nDemonstrated ability to establish testing strategy and quality standards in large codebases\nCross-Functional and Domain Knowledge\nDeep familiarity with live-service game development, including progression systems, gacha/offers, PvP or event systems, social features, analytics, and monetization\nExperience partnering with backend and live-ops teams to support fast iteration on time-bound content and feature rollouts\nAbility to make strong technical tradeoffs in a content-heavy, operationally active game environment\nComfort leading cross-team initiatives with multiple dependencies and ambiguous constraints\nSoft Skills & Education\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience\nExcellent communication, technical leadership, and stakeholder alignment skills\nStrong mentorship and coaching ability across multiple experience levels.\nHigh ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to bring clarity to complex technical problems\nPassion for games and for building stable, maintainable systems that support great player experiences\nAbout Scopely\nScopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry - bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.\nFounded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team - including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Scopely Explore games businesses - Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.\nRecognized multiple times as one of the \"100 Most Influential Companies in the World\" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's \"World's Most Innovative Companies\" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good - creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.\nScopely has global operations and partners across four continents in more than a dozen countries worldwide. For more information, visit: https://www.scopely.com/. \nNotice to Candidates: Scopely will never request payment or financial information during the application or hiring process. Please apply only through our official website and verify that all Talent Partner communications come from an email address ending in @scopely.com.\nShould you have any questions or encounter any fraudulent requests/emails/websites, please immediately contact . Our job applicant privacy policies are available here: California Privacy Notice and EEA/UK Privacy Notice.\nEmployment at Scopely is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. Scopely does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. 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