Senior Gameplay Programmer

Sandbox VR

Senior Gameplay Programmer at Sandbox VR shaping immersive multiplayer VR experiences. Collaborating with designers and artists to create engaging gameplay using Unity.

Posted 7/1/2026full-timeRemote • 🇩🇪 GermanySenior💰 €64,234 - €83,127 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Unity

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work to implement game mechanics and AI behaviors for our compelling 6-person multiplayer experiences & provide mentorship to other programmers
Consistently push the limits of the Unity game engine to maximize the quality of each VR experience.
Keep up with the latest features and optimization techniques and decide if, when, and how to incorporate them.
Find or develop tools and processes to make the development process more efficient.
Actively contribute to creative maintainable code that can be reused across experiences.
Own key areas of the experience from technical perspective
Experiment with game design and use rapid prototyping to develop features, all while ensuring that strong architectural and algorithmic decisions are made.
Work closely with art and design to create and iterate on gameplay features.
Fix bugs in existing gameplay systems as required.
Contribute ideas toward all aspects of the VR experience’s production and development processes. Write robust, maintainable code.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You've been a software or feature group team lead and can share your philosophy of leadership as well as specific examples of where you've put that philosophy into action.
Exceptional C# programming skills with at least 5 years of software programming experience.
You must also have significant experience in programming with the Unity engine.
You have a proven track record, have shipped at least 2 commercial games (PC or Console preferred) and have been involved in each step of the development process from concept stage all the way through to the final release.
You can share awesome stories of your incredible successes or crushing failures and what you learned from each experience.
You play video games very frequently and have a strong understanding of current gaming trends and popular games releases.
It’s a big plus for us if you have your own VR headset and regularly play VR games.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Significant equity grants in a rapidly growing organization
Private medical benefits
Retirement plan

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Hard Skills & Tools

C# ProgrammingUnity EngineGame Mechanics ImplementationAI Behavior DevelopmentCode Optimization TechniquesGameplay Feature IterationBug FixingArchitectural Decision MakingAlgorithm DesignMaintainable Code Writing

Soft Skills

MentorshipCreative ContributionCollaboration with Art and DesignPhilosophy of LeadershipStorytelling of Experiences