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Backend Developer, GraphQL
3 years ago
The Unity Live Platform team builds technology that enables Unity to bring our whole ecosystem of tools and services to our Unity users where they need them - by gathering functionality from separate services into a single, easy to use GraphQL API. Our mission is to reduce complexity and cognitive load for teams building user-facing experiences for Unity developers, by developing and operating a world-class internal platform. The results of this work touch everyone who uses Unity.
As a Backend Developer on the Live Platform team, you will both integrate existing features and build new features for the Unity Live Platform GraphQL API. The Live Platform team works in a cross-functional, data-driven, and pioneering spirit. You will be a trusted contributor taking part in shaping both the daily work and the bigger picture direction.
Responsibilities
- Exposing existing Unity services such as Unity Learn, Asset Store, Unity ID, and 3rd party services using GraphQL with Node.js, and Typescript
- Master the SDL as a design tool to collaborate with all the stakeholders involved, create new functionality, enrich existing features, and solve and support the needs of teams building user-facing features
- Pro-actively working to improve the Developer Experience with the Live Platform GraphQL API
Requirements
- Experience designing, writing and testing node.js application services in Javascript and Typescript
- Strong developer skills with distributed online services and APIs deployed and operated at scale on modern cloud infrastructure
- Strong knowledge of software design patterns and principles, knowing how to use them and when they are appropriate to apply
- Experience with API architecture and implementation in a larger organization or ecosystem
- Understanding of modern dev-ops discipline and tools, you have experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud provider services like GCP and AWS
Bonus points
- Knowledge of the Unity ecosystem and/or development with Unity
- Experience working in distributed teams or projects
- You have integrated a GraphQL service in a modern client-side application
Who We Are
Unity is the creator of the world’s leading real-time 3D development platform, giving users the most powerful and accessible tools to create, operate, and monetize experiences for the real-time world. Unity empowers anyone, regardless of skill level and industry, to create 3D visual content using world-class technology, operate using resources that maximize ease-of-use, and monetize, so that they can find success with their creations.
The company’s 1,000 person development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners such as Google, Oculus, Autodesk, Microsoft and many more, to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Made with Unity experiences reach nearly 3 billion devices worldwide and have been installed more than 34 billion times in the last 12 months. 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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