Lead Software Engineer - Unity Online Gameplay

About Our Company :

Daddy Sports is committed to making sports simulation widely accessible. The future of sport is practiced and played at-home or in specialized training facilities.

We’re making simulators affordable and accesible starting with Golf. We built a $99 golf simulator that is disrupting an industry where the average cost of a simulator is $5000.

On all fronts we’ve received tons of recognition, but we’re most proud of our community of over 200,000 supporters on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.

We started 2 years ago and we’re very early on in our journey, join us today as we blast through an otherwise slow industry and be part of this sports revolution where we turn every sport into an every day option.

Check us out at Golfdaddy.com or in hundreds of stores across the country. (Dicks sporting goods, Golf Galaxy, and more)

What you’ll do :

• Lead diverse hybrid team of game and computer vision engineers
• Drive engineering infrastructure for the came connecting all aspects of its production
• Maintain team health and growth
• Keep timelines and deliverables to best estimate build time estimates
• Create and work on creative new game modes that connect real-life sports simulation with gaming
• Explore gamification and optimization of our gaming experience
• Take control in creating and maintain the networking and multiplayer code and architecture for our mobile sports simulator (golf)
• Integrate and manage a networking client API with Unity which supports networking of Unity features (transforms, physics etc.)
• Support networking across multiple target platforms including iOS and Android
• Develop tools to assist with game networking, debugging and performance optimization
• Coordinate with development team to identify risks and possible mitigation strategies for networking complex game systems

What you’ll need :

• 5+ years software engineering experience
• 3+ years experience leading a team
• Experience in Back-End Development
• Strong programming skills in Unity and C#
• Knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skill
• Django expertise
• AWS expertise
• Github Actions expertise
• CI / CD, Docker (or similar) expertise
• MySQL (or similar) expertise
• Experience using common Unity networking frameworks such as Photon, Mirror, FishNet, Normcore or similar.
• Proficient knowledge of game networking technologies and techniques
• Skillful understanding of lower level networking communication and socket based programming

Culture :

Daddy Sport’s culture is lively and in-person. Team members are in the office 5 days per week, 8am to 5pm at the Irvine, CA headquarters.

This requires occasional weekend work and long hours. Most will tell you they’d prefer to be nowhere else. There is unparalleled excitement and energy with the speed at which we’re growing and a catalyst to grow your career with the trajectory we’re on.

If you want to join an early startup with 1000% YoY growth this is for you.