We're looking for an expert Senior Unity Developer to join our award-winning Immersive team at Journey's Squint/Opera studio in London!
About the Studio:
Squint/Opera is Journey's immersive design studio, bridging the digital and physical worlds through groundbreaking storytelling and emerging technologies such as Unreal Engine and virtual twins.
We're the innovators behind the Empire State Building Observatory's digital reinvention, creating over 40 unique exhibits that transform 10,000 square feet into an interactive journey through history and architecture. At Battersea Power Station, we designed Lift 109, an immersive ascent experience that melds cutting-edge animations, interactive elements, and spatial soundscapes to breathe new life into London's iconic landmark. For Qiddiya City, we pushed the boundaries of virtual production, crafting a revolutionary campaign that ignited global excitement for Saudi Arabia's visionary sports and entertainment mega-development.
We're at the forefront of a new era in experiential multidimensional design (MDX) and an integral part of Journey’s Experience Stack. Inspired by the concept of a tech stack, our Experience Stack draws on decades of cumulative expertise from our physical, lighting, live & immersive, and emerging technology studios to produce magical, meaningful, original work. This integration propels our partners into new realms of growth and delivers multidimensional experiences that are not just consumed but that are lived and felt through every dimension of human interaction.
About the Role:
We are seeking a real-time developer to join our digital team. The role is a unique opportunity to lead high-profile projects across the globe. The ideal candidate will be focused on all technical aspects, from creative support to delivery. A thorough understanding of real-time development Unity is required together with a problem-solving approach and an eagerness to learn.
Main Responsibilities:
- Lead our interactive projects for museums
- Reporting to the tech director
- Technical implementation and solutions of bespoke Applications for interactive, experiential projects with ongoing maintenance where necessary.
- Working together with external teams and freelancers
- Assisting in-progress developments, liaison with AV integrators
- Development of interactive software for a range of new interactive exhibits, ranging from VR, and AR to touchscreens
- Maintaining and improving our current workflow.
- Sharing knowledge and collaborating with designers, producers, and other developers to deliver a successful project.
- Keeping up with the latest digital and real-time industry standards to support our digital offering and end-user experience.
- Foresee potential issues in production and help resolve them.
Outcomes:
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Working together with the digital, creative, and producer teams, you will be involved in long-term projects from start to finish under the supervision of Squint's technical director.
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In parallel, your role will assist or overview the good execution of short-term digital endeavours.
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You will also be involved in maintaining cohesion within our code base together with improving our workflow.
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The nature of physical installation will sometimes require you to travel on-site to set up your digital creations.
About You:
You are a highly skilled senior developer with strong knowledge and experience with Unity 3D. Below are some required and desired qualifications and character traits for success in this role.
Qualifications:
[Required]
- Min 5 years experience with demonstrable senior experience
- Fluency in one or more object-oriented languages.
- Software engineering skills to write robust and maintainable code
- Ability to work with software version control systems
- Experience working in large interdisciplinary teams
- Experience with server-side technologies ( api integrations, node, aws admin etc..)
- Strong interest in digital physical installation
- Eye for details. Animations, UI
[Desirable]
- Experience with Unreal + Blueprints and/or C++
- Glsls / Shaders
- Houdini
- Knowledge of a 3d DCC
- Physical application development experience
- Experience in Mobile platform deployment
- Experience with VR and AR
- Knowledge and experience of web technologies and platforms
Character Traits:
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Organized
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Proactive
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Eager to learn
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Remaining calm under tight deadlines to think clearly about problem-solving
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Good communication skills
Salary Pay Range
£60,000—£65,000 GBP
About Journey:
But we're so much more than a combination of acquisitions; we're a revolutionary framework of layered design capabilities akin to the layers of a technology stack for software companies. Like the best technology stacks, our framework continuously evolves to embrace new capabilities and creative possibilities with the future of the human experience at the forefront. This game-changing framework, the Journey Experience Stack, allows us to design for every touchpoint and create uncommonly cohesive brand universes, drawing on our collective expertise in interior design, lighting design, media design, interactive design, and content creation to deliver industry-first solutions for entertainment, healthcare, retail, hospitality, real estate, and cultural institutions.
No other full-service studio practices multidimensional design or vertically integrates its experience capabilities with this level of sophistication. Whether we’re reimagining the hospital-patient relationship, creating the world’s most immersive entertainment venue, revolutionizing live theater, or crafting virtual twins that accelerate ideas’ passage from vision to reality, Journey’s work is pioneering the shift of how people perceive, engage, and interact with the world.
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What We Do
Journey is a global design and innovation studio pioneering multidimensional experiences (MDX) that transform how people perceive, engage and interact with the world. With studios in New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, London and Dubai, we blend strategy, design, technology and narrative to create sensory-rich journeys that ignite emotion and deepen connections between people, brands and culture. Our innovative Experience Stack draws on expertise in physical design, lighting, live & immersive, and emerging technology to deliver industry-first solutions for entertainment, healthcare, retail, hospitality, real estate and cultural institutions. At Journey, we're not just designing experiences that are consumed, but that are lived and felt across every dimension of human interaction. Get started at www.journey.world.
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