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Senior Software Engineer, Game Backend
2 years ago
The opportunity
At Unity, we believe that the world is better with more creators in it. One way we’re supporting this effort is by providing a suite of Game Backend Services, allowing game studios of any size to easily add Leaderboards, Cloud Save, Multiplayer and much more to their games in just a few lines of code. We want developers to spend their time and energy creating fantastic games, rather than reinventing the wheel.
We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our Game Backend Services team. You will be working within the team that works on services including Cloud Save and Leaderboards with an opportunity to influence key projects and help shape the future of the platform.
What you’ll be doing
- Collaborate with your team to deeply understand the needs of our users and clients and then plan, design, and build features that best serve those needs, leveraging lean and agile methodologies
- Lead development on service integrations for other Unity products and services
- Write high-quality and scalable code that supports existing and future functionality of the products
- Ensure service scalability and reliability through effective code and data storage design
- Ensure quality by developing features with the right combination of unit, acceptance and end-to-end tests
What we’re looking for
- Comfortable operating with a high level of autonomy and accountability
- Desire to work in a team, learn from others, and help others to learn
- Comprehensive working knowledge of Go, Python, PHP, Java, C# or similar
- Comprehensive working knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure: GCP, AWS, or similar
- Experience with unit testing and end-to-end test frameworks
You might also have
- Knowledge and understanding of the challenges that come with building distributed, highly available, and scalable, cloud based systems
- Experience with Terraform/Ansible or similar
- Experience with NoSQL databases, e.g. BigTable
Life at Unity
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’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.
Unity is at the forefront of development by working alongside partners to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Apps developed by Unity creators were downloaded more than five billion times per month in 2020. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.
Unity is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. Therefore, we provide employment opportunities without regard to 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. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.
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