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Senior Software Engineer, Services Foundation

Develop the tools for creators to build incredible things

Developing the Unity platform means designing, building, testing, and maintaining new features and products that enable artists, modellers and developers to create rich and interactive content. We are driving the future of how content is created and experienced.

The opportunity

Our technology stack is built to create proven products that allow us to operate in a changing environment. Stability, quality, and robustness of code are our core values of our team. We are highly autonomous and take the lead and responsibility in designing and developing solutions that enable Unity to scale towards the future and meet customer requirements. We do multiple deployments to production per day, so we can adapt quickly with small iterations and base most of our decisions on data.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Services Foundation team. You will be part of the team who is working on providing platforms for other teams here at Unity to succeed in their in mission in building great services to our customers. As part of this effort, we are aligning our service products into a unified Dashboard, Editor and API experience. The team is in charge of rethinking our API gateway, developer identity and access management to provide a foundation for different services to be exposed in a standard way to end users. You will have an impact in crafting a platform which will make the user experience as smooth as our feature teams envisioned it while solving hard technical problems to support our existing services infrastructure and expanding that as we grow.

We are growing our API platform into a high-throughput and high-performance context to provide even more value to a larger audience within Unity. We would like you to come to build this platform with us.

What you’ll be doing

• Design, develop new services and improve our services to create a platform for other feature teams
• Implement and rethink our API gateway, developer identity and access management
• Ensure service scalability and reliability through effective code, architecture and data storage design
• Ensure high-quality delivery with unit and integration tests
• Evolve our Cloud infrastructure through code

What we’re looking for

• Solid experience in software development and different software testing practices
• Excellent JavaScript development skills, understanding in Node.js ecosystem and the ability to learn other languages if needed
• Experience in driving things forward, taking initiatives, making decisions and taking ownership on how things are solved
• Ability to communicate clearly your ideas, solutions and collaborate with teams in English
• Good understanding of service infrastructure like DNS, HTTP, TLS, load balancers, data storages and how to do service-to-service communication in Cloud environments

You might also have

• Experience in GraphQL, API gateways, identity and access management
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform
• Interest in working on React web app development (or similar) to build UIs for our features

Life at Unity

Unity 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.

The company’s 1,400+ person research and development team keeps Unity 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 three billion times per month in 2019 on more than two billion unique devices. 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 we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.

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