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Are you a seasoned Unity engineer with a passion for leading teams and making crucial technical decisions Join us at LearnWith.AI as we integrate AI into learning, creating cutting-edge educational experiences. We're on a mission to transform how students learn, making education not just effective but engaging and fun.
Your role will be critical in leading our Unity engineering team and designing the technical architecture of Magic Academya game where knowledge isn't just taught, it's experienced. You'll establish technical patterns, guide the team through complex decisions, spearhead the adoption of AI within our development process, and build a game that turns abstract information into tangible, interactive experiences. This isn't just about identifying gaps in learning; it's about building robust, scalable solutions that create immersive learning adventures.
What we offer:
- The chance to work with cutting-edge technologies and methodologies in education and game development.
- A platform to showcase your leadership and technical expertise, directly impacting how students learn.
- Ownership and independence in your work, with the authority to make impactful decisions and drive innovation.
What You Will Be Doing
- Leading the Unity engineering team, making key technical decisions, and setting the direction for our game development work.
- Designing the technical architecture of Magic Academy, ensuring it aligns with our business goals.
- Establishing best practices, coding standards, and development patterns that the team will follow.
- Collaborating closely with product managers and designers to ensure the game's functionality, reliability, and user-friendliness.
- Spearheading the integration of AI tools and techniques to improve the game and the team's development process.
What You Won't Be Doing
- Getting stuck in endless approval loops - we value swift decision-making and engineering autonomy,
- Focusing primarily on game design or visual aesthetics - while important, our priority is engineering excellence,
- Isolated tasks - you will collaborate closely with a supportive product and backend team.
Lead Developer Key Responsibilities
- Delivering a high-quality game that serves as the primary interface for students in our online learning environment.
- Defining the technical architecture of the game, ensuring it is decoupled, robust, simple, and aligned with the long-term vision.
- Continuously improving and optimizing our codebase to meet evolving educational and technological needs.
- Leading the adoption of AI in game development to increase the overall throughput of the team.
Basic Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in developing 3D games using Unity.
- At least 3 years of experience leading the development of games, including designing the technical architecture.
- Proven track record of leading the development of a game that successfully launched and engaged users.
About LearnwithAI
LearnWith.AI is an edtech startup that leverages AI and subject matter experts to cultivate a new way of learning. Our unique approach leverages 50+ years of learning science, cutting-edge data analytics and AI-powered coaching. In doing so, we can help students learn more, learn faster, and learn better - and have fun while doing it. We are a remote-first company that hires globally via Crossover.
There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!
Working with Crossover
This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover. The compensation level for this role is $100 USD/hour, which equates to $200,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
What to expect next:
- You will receive an email with a link to start your self-paced, online job application.
- Our hiring platform will guide you through a series of online screening assessments to check for basic job fit, job-related skills, and finally a few real-world job-specific assignments.
Important! If you do not receive an email from us:
- First, emails may take up to 15 minutes to send, refresh and check again.
- Second, check your spam and junk folders for an email from Crossover.com, mark as Not Spam since you will receive other emails as well.
- Third, we will send to whatever email account you indicated on the Apply form - by default, that is the email address you use as your LinkedIn username and it might be different than the one you have already checked.
- If all else fails, just reset your password by visiting https://www.crossover.com/auth/password-recovery if you already applied using LinkedIn EasyApply.
Crossover Job Code: LJ-5400-IN-Pune-LeadDeveloper.002
