Senior Client Developer

LEGO Digital Play

London, GB·Full-time·Posted 4 Nov 2026

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The role, as advertised by LEGO Digital Play

At LEGO Digital Play, we’re bringing the LEGO® System-in-Play to the digital builders of tomorrow. We’re building the LEGO brand’s digital home: a place where builders of every age can create, share and discover, held to the standard of craft the LEGO brand is known for.

Our mission is to ensure the LEGO brand remains as powerful a part of people’s lives in the coming decades as it has ever been. We aim to reach players all around the world, and give them meaningful, magical and playful new experiences.

We are at an early phase of this new company, offering a unique opportunity to build a new entity for the world's most beloved and trusted brand. Our culture is open, collaborative, intellectually rigorous, and creatively vibrant.

Offroad Games is a mobile game studio based in London, part of LEGO Digital Play. Founded by experienced game developers, we make fun, engaging mobile games for players around the world. We value speed, camaraderie, creativity and real impact.

We are looking for a Senior Client Developer with deep Unity expertise and a hands-on approach to building mobile games quickly and well. You'll make technical recommendations, then build, test and maintain what you propose.

Working closely with engineering leadership, you'll extend an established Unity technology base and use AI-assisted development tools as part of how you work.

Role Summary

We are looking for a Senior Client Developer with deep Unity expertise and a hands-on, fast-moving approach to building mobile games. You'll bring technical recommendations, then build, test and maintain what you propose.

Working closely with engineering leadership, you'll extend an established Unity technology base and use AI-assisted development tools as part of how you work.

Key Responsibilities

• Build game features end to end, working with designers to take each feature from idea to players.

• Build, debug, ship and monitor features in the mobile client.

• Improve shared client code libraries alongside the wider client development team.

• Create and maintain AI-assisted automation that makes development and operations workflows more efficient.

• Build supporting infrastructure, including automated testing, integration with live-ops services and performance metrics.

• Analyse and fix key areas of mobile client performance.

• Recommend improvements based on the metrics gathered through tooling.

• Own the systems you build: design them with the right colleagues, then maintain and improve them over time.

Required Qualifications

• Substantial experience developing games in Unity with C#.

• A track record of shipping at least one mobile title.

• Experience working in large, long-lived codebases.

• Current, hands-on use of AI-powered coding assistants to speed up development, code review and testing.

• Strong knowledge of mobile device performance, including CPU and GPU usage, memory, loading times and stability.

• A track record of building systems or infrastructure that a game depends on to run.

• An active interest in advances in mobile games, AI tools and third-party technology.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with off-the-shelf live-ops platforms.

• Experience with cloud providers such as Firebase, Google Cloud Platform or AWS.

• Confidence giving feedback on both the technical and creative sides of prototypes.

• A broad understanding of modern mobile game development, and a willingness to challenge existing ways of working.

Hybrid Working: This role is based in our London office. Our hybrid working policy is three days a week in the office.

This role at a glance

This is one of 120 programming and engineering roles open in England today, out of 546 live games jobs across the UK, and LEGO Digital Play is hiring for 15 other roles alongside it. Going by the title it’s a senior role, usually asking for several years’ experience and shipped titles. LEGO Digital Play doesn’t publish the salary here; across the 3 programming and engineering roles on the board that do, the median is £40k.

Discipline
Engineering
Level (from the title)
Senior
On gamesJobs since
6 Nov 2026
Other Engineering roles in England
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About LEGO Digital Play

LEGO Digital Play is the LEGO Group's games-focused subsidiary, formed in 2025 and led from London by president Aaron Loeb. It was set up to develop and publish LEGO games, with an initial emphasis on mobile, and has since acquired Offroad Games, the team behind Chrome Valley Customs.

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