Senior Backend Engineer

The opportunity
Aura, a revolutionary large-scale mobile platform, is looking for an outstanding and passionate Senior Backend Engineer to join a rapidly growing team. We work in a fast-paced environment, building a content discovery platform used by millions of users. The service enables unique content discovery experiences allowing users to access and find their favorite content in a simple and accessible way. Our team uses the most up-to-date technologies to build a scalable and resilient product that is growing at a high pace. This is a great opportunity for those looking to make a huge impact on a technically challenging product with a huge audience. We value team players with technical excellence and a sense of ownership who know how to choose the right tool for the right task.

What you'll be doing

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.
• Write clean, highly scalable, and top-quality code that sets industry standards.
• Work closely with the Product, Architects, DevOps, and BI.
• Continuously learn and stay up to date with emerging trends and technologies in the industry.
• Drive innovation by researching and implementing new technologies and best practices within the development team

What we're looking for

• 4+ years of experience building the server-side of enterprise-level systems (high-performance, highly available, and scalable systems) preferably in Nodejs.
• Hands-on experience with SQL & NoSQL databases such as Postgres/MySQL, Aerospike, Mongo, DynamoDB, Redis.
• Good understanding of modern Stream Processing and Event Sourcing paradigms.
• Experience in designing and implementation of highly scalable & distributed web applications
• Knowledge & experience with public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, Google

You might also have

• Experience with microservices and Kubernetes.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow or Temporal for managing complex data pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code development such as Pulumi or Terraform.
• Deep knowledge of NodeJS.
• Previous ad-tech experience.

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.

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