Senior Unity Programmer

As a Senior Unity Programmer you will have a desire to focus and specialise your technical skills further, working with our teams to reach your next career step as a Principal or Lead.

Third Kind Games - a Virtuos Studio, is a world-class co-development games studio. Third Kind Games was founded in 2016 by a team of nine former Activision veterans and became a Virtuos Studio in 2024.

Our studio is based in Royal Leamington Spa and we also have remote studios in Poland and Spain. Our three studios have been built on the same original spirit and values since our beginning.

We work with some of the biggest names in the games industry such as Blizzard, Amazon, Microsoft and Mythical Games. We’re proud of our track record working on critically acclaimed games and franchises. We are also setting new benchmarks for creativity in the games industry, driving technical expertise in programming alongside creative innovation.

We are a diverse team of people. We are collaborative, open-minded creatives who embrace ideas and knowledge from everyone in our team, with the aim of developing and inspiring ourselves, our projects and our games.

Work life balance and flexibility are very important to us and our team. At TKG we offer a place where our team can be their most creative, imaginative and confident selves. We want all of our team to feel valued, appreciated, and free to be who they are  recently received a GOLD Award in Mind Charity’s Workplace Wellbeing Index, recognising our dedication to our team’s mental health and wellbeing.

• Working with a highly experienced team on all areas of the game, both client and server.
• Fully owning complex systems through design and development, working closely with the game designers and other disciplines to realise their visions.
• Playing a key role in bug fixing and helping the team to deliver milestones.
• Taking an active role in the mentoring and development of junior staff.
• Using your passion for gaming, you will design, plan and develop high quality code systems, working closely with the game designers and other disciplines to realise their visions.
• Good communication skills with the ability to contribute to Scrum meetings and create innovative solutions for our games.
• Driving the engineering processes in addition to programming and like to contribute improvements where applicable.

• Be capable of working autonomously, gathering your own requirements and creating your own solutions.
• Be capable of learning a new language or technology without guidance.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry movements.
• Enjoy working with a lot of different technologies, and have a keen desire to learn new ones.
• Will prefer a creative, open-thinking environment over one driven by specs and detailed requirements.
• Be adept at communicating with colleagues and customers to work well as a team.
• Be motivated by creative freedom, ground-breaking initiatives and unknown territory.
• Prefer a creative, open-thinking environment, over one managed through specs and have a passion for working on a wide variety of tasks.
• Be able to work alone and also as part of a team, whilst knowing when to ask for advice from your colleagues.
• 5+ years' industry experience.
• Several years' C# experience.
• Experience with Unity and other engines such as Unreal.
• Proven debugging and critical analysis skills.
• Proven ability working in a team.

• Experience with cloud services such as Play Fab and Game Sparks.
• Experience with modern console development.

If you think this is the role for you please send us your CV and an introductory email, which helps us to get to know you better. We aim to respond to your application within 2 working days. Usually we will conduct a telephone interview, prior to any face to face or virtual interviews. If you experience an error submitting your application, please email us at r

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