Senior Backend Engineer

1 Month ago • 5 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Backend Engineer will be working on the core backend of Unity/iAds ad-serving platform, powering ads for millions of daily users. The role involves improving system performance, scalability, and reliability using technologies like Kafka, Aerospike, and Kubernetes. The engineer will develop features in a high-scale, real-time environment, propose and implement new ideas, and help design robust and scalable solutions. This position is at the heart of the backend systems and provides a significant impact on the company's revenue.
Must have:
  • 5+ years building large-scale systems.
  • 2+ years with Scala, Java, or Go.
  • Experience with Kafka in high-performance systems.
  • Strong understanding of scalability, latency, and throughput.
Good to have:
  • Knowledge of functional programming is a plus.

Job Details

The opportunity
We’re looking for a skilled Scala developer with a strong background in distributed systems to join our team. You’ll be working on the core backend of Unity/iAds ad-serving platform, powering ads for millions of daily users.

In this role, you’ll help improve our system's performance, scalability, and reliability. You’ll work with cutting-edge technologies like Kafka, Aerospike, and Kubernetes, contributing to a platform that drives a significant part of the company's revenue.

This is an exciting opportunity to deeply impact our business, working within a team that sits at the heart of our backend systems.

What you'll be doing

  • Develop features in a high-scale, real-time environment.
  • Work on critical projects at the core of our revenue stream.
  • Propose and implement new ideas to enhance system functionality and performance.
  • Help design and build robust and scalable solutions.

What we're looking for

  • Proven Experience: 5+ years building large-scale systems.
  • Backend Development: 2+ years with Scala, Java, or Go.
  • Technical Expertise: Experience with Kafka in high-performance systems.
  • Performance Focus: A strong understanding of scalability, latency, and throughput.
  • Knowledge of functional programming is a plus.

Additional information

  • Relocation support is not available for this position.
  • Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Life at Unity
Unity [NYSE: U] is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity is the foundation upon which the world’s most powerful digital content is created. Specifically, Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices. 

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