Junior Unity Developer - Content

Junior Unity Developer - Content

Full time position

Hybrid working, Gloucester based office

What you'll love about this role

You'll be joining a fast-paced, award-winning educational technology company at the forefront of digital learning innovation. As a Company, Avantis has a long-standing passion for transforming education through technology. Our pioneering solutions—such as ClassVR—are revolutionising the classroom experience.

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What you'll be doing

We are looking for a motivated Junior Unity Developer to join our VR Content Team. You'll help build immersive tools, interactive systems and high-quality VR experiences from prototype to product. The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in Unity and C#, a passion for VR and the ability to collaborate with artists and designers to streamline workflows and build production-ready features.

Key responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain features for Unity (C#) VR applications.
• Build custom tools for the 3D art team to streamline workflows and automate repetitive tasks.
• Integrate 3D assets, animations, and VFX into Unity projects.
• Collaborate with Senior engineers, artists and producers to define technical requirements and maintain best practices.
• Create and maintain shaders and VFX using tools like Shader Graph, HLSL, and particle systems.
• Assist with optimizing VR performance, rendering, and resource usage.
• Perform debugging, code reviews, and follow clean coding standards.
• Use GitHub to maintain project stability.
• Test and validate features across our VR platforms.

What we're looking for

Essential:

• Strong hands-on experience with Unity, including; Rendering pipelines (URP), Animation systems and VFX workflows and particle systems
• Proficiency in C# programming.
• Experience using Blender (or similar) for asset integration or pipeline tasks.
• Ability to create custom shaders (Shader Graph, HLSL).
• Understanding of debugging techniques and performance profiling.
• Version control experience using Github.
• Basic knowledge of VR development or eagerness to learn VR toolchains.
• Solid foundation in OOP, scripting fundamentals and clean coding practices.

Desirable:

• Experience with tool development for artists (C#).
• Experience with Android development or mobile optimisation.
• Basic web development knowledge.
• Experience with UV unwrapping and 3D asset preparation.
• Understanding of lighting and rendering optimisation in Unity.

Are you ready to help us develop our content and product?

We'd love to hear from you.