Lead Software Engineer - Unity

Blizzard Entertainment • Irvine, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Pull up a chair and join us by the hearth! Blizzard is looking for a Lead Software Engineer, Unity to join the Hearthstone team, leading our growing Client Foundations team. The team is critical in architecting and building systems that will help scale our game’s client to reach the largest player base with a performant and responsive client. We are looking for a candidate with deep technical expertise with Unity, C#, and .NET, a proven record of leading engineers through work deep within the game client code, including optimizing for multi-platform development, working with technical artists to build systems that scale and provide delightful player experiences. We value diverse voices and varied backgrounds, and we're looking for individuals to help us build fun, compelling, and inclusive gameplay and experiences with us. This role offers a flexible hybrid work week from our Irvine, CA studio location, with a mix of remote and on-site days. While hybrid is the standard arrangement, you're also welcome to work on-site full-time if you prefer.

Requirements

• Deep, hands-on expertise with Unity, C#, and .NET, architecting and delivering projects in service of the game client.
• Experience building and shipping games for multiple platforms, including mobile and PC.
• Proven people management experience leading engineering teams in game development; dedication to building inclusive, high-performing teams.
• Demonstrated ability to balance technical contribution (coding/architecture) with leadership responsibilities.
• Background in live-service games, content pipelines, and iterative game client updates.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills, with experience bridging engineering, art, and design.

Nice To Haves

• Comfort with data-informed development and telemetry-driven insights for measuring player impact.
• Experience building tooling within Unity for game developers.
• Contributions to an inclusive team culture, fostering psychological safety and collaboration across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow our team of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, technical excellence, and accountability while being a key code contributor.
• Manage priorities, deadlines, and deliverables, ensuring clear communication and alignment across peers and disciplines.
• Proactively surface technical and execution risks, drive open discussion, and ensure they are addressed within the Client engineering domain.
• Ensure building our game is almost as much fun as playing our game by collaborating with game developers across our team to ensure their work is done smoothly.
• Partner closely across disciplines to optimize our game performance across multiple platforms.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees