Unity Developer - Expert Multiplayer Engineer in Hamburg bei The Sandbox

The Sandbox

About us

The Sandbox is building a decentralized metaverse, empowering creators and players to come together and build the world they’ve always wanted. It is our mission to build an inclusive and open metaverse, building the bridge between blockchain, social experiences, and gaming, creating long-lasting relationships through the power of community, creativity, and NFTs. To learn more, check us out at www.sandbox.game/ or on Twitter at @TheSandboxGame.

For this particular positioned you would work at Sviper, a gaming studio founded in 2016 in Hamburg, Germany. Besides developing its own game - Super Spell Heroes - Sviper has been working together with successful publishers, creating memorable mobile games. In 2023, Sviper was acquired by The Sandbox and is since then supporting the company by developing and creating gaming experiences in the like named metaverse.

At Sviper we embrace a no-politics, short-meetings, low-hierarchy work environment because we believe in our teams’ ability to provide the greatest results possible if they are empowered to do so. Our team members are responsible for tasks, not departments.

What you'll be doing

Define, extend and maintain our core multiplayer systems
Implement multiplayer gameplay features
Debug, profile, and optimize our current online systems.
Share your knowledge, guide and mentor other team members
Follow, define and improve best practices, development processes, documentation and coding standards
Proactively taking initiative to solve issues
Working in a cross-functional team environment

What we are looking for

You have 4+ years of professional experience in Unity 3D and C#
You have experience in working with Unity’s Netcode for Entities
You have experience in developing online games, client-server architectures and prediction
You are used to deal with bandwidth and latency issues and low-level networking
You know the challenges of developing games for multiple platforms
You are proficient in debugging in network environments
You like to work in a small team, be involved and give feedback on every aspect of the game you are working on
You are not afraid to get into new tech/tools if needed
You love to develop maintainable and re-usable code following known principles

Why us

Hybrid working model – You are completely flexible. Whether you work from home or in the office – it’s up to you!
Flexible working hours – We trust you to organise your 40 working hours how ever it fits best for you.
Flat hierarchy – Our recipe for fast decision-making and result orientation.
Sustainability – We care for the environment and use renewable energy from “Hamburg Energie Ökostrom”. We use recycled material wherever possible for office supplies. The office fruits are from local providers.
Food & Drinks – We offer office fruits and drinks to contribute to your healthy nutrition and well-being.
Team events – You are invited to participate in regular team events like cooking, board game evenings and joint breakfasts!

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