Unity engineer in games

Octo Games is an international game development studio with a legal entity in the Netherlands. Since 2017, we've released more than 200 commercial games on Steam, building a loyal player community and gaining years of hands-on experience in game development. We develop and publish our own games end-to-end — from the initial idea and narrative through production, release, live operations, and long-term support. Because we own our products, decisions are made quickly, good ideas are heard, and everyone has a real opportunity to influence the result.

• Own technical implementation from concept through release.
• Design scalable gameplay architecture and core systems — after you've seen the pattern repeat, not before.
• Develop gameplay mechanics using Unity and C#.
• Ship production-ready playable builds yourself, hands-on keyboard.
• Build reusable frameworks, tooling, and workflows once a recurring need is confirmed, not speculatively.
• Set engineering standards and keep the codebase clean and scalable as the team grows.
• Integrate UI, animation, Addressables, plugins, 2D/3D assets, and video.
• Work closely with designers and artists to turn ideas into experiences players actually enjoy.
• Profile, optimize, and debug production builds.

• 5+ years of commercial Unity development.
• Strong C#, with real command of OOP, SOLID, and design patterns — not just familiarity with the terms.
• Experience designing scalable architecture from scratch, ideally more than once.
• Deep understanding of gameplay systems, not just the tools around them.
• ScriptableObjects and data-driven architecture.
• Unity Animator, Unity UI/Canvas.
• Addressables and asset management.
• Dependency Injection (Zenject, VContainer, or similar).
• Comfortable writing custom Unity Editor tooling.
• Solid with Git, profiling, and optimization.
• Shipped commercial games.
• Builder before architect, always.
• A hands-on engineer who genuinely wants to keep writing production code.
• Comfortable moving without a perfect spec or a finished process.
• Knows when NOT to build the general solution — and can tell you about a time they deliberately didn't.
• Thinks in ownership, not tickets.
• Enjoys helping others grow as the team eventually scales around them.
• Будет плюсом: Multiplayer experience; A game you personally shipped on Steam; Telemetry and data-driven decision making; Build and release automation; UniTask; DOTween; NavMesh / AI; Shader Graph / HLSL; Experience with AI-assisted development workflows; Startup or founding engineer experience

• Fully remote work.
• Base salary scaled to experience and location.
• 20 paid days off—15 vacation, 5 sick
• Direct access to founders — no layers in between.
• Real ownership and real influence over what gets built.
• Minimal bureaucracy, fast decisions.
• The chance to build both the products and the engineering culture around them.