Senior Backend Engineer, Unity
Data Services
$138.7-187.6k
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Game development platform
Job no longer available
Game development platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$138.7-187.6k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Democratize game development and enable everyone to create rich interactive content.
Role
Who you are
- Proficient and strong knowledge of Go, Javascript, C++ or Javascript
- Experience working with distributed systems with external database storage
- Experience in API definition and REST architecture
- Understanding of system optimizations and performance analysis
- Experience with high throughput low latency systems
- 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
Desirable
- Mobile development experience, ideally in the tech industry
- Exposure to user privacy and security or compliance
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with successful experience collaborating with distributed teams
What the job involves
- Our Unity Data Services team strives to connect data from a multitude of sources into meaningful segments
- Success for our team is incorporating more data and entities so that our modelling and reporting teams have critical segments of data
- In this role you'll be unifying the data for Unity, bringing together disparate information into a meaningful and accessible platform through highly distributed systems requiring reliable uptimes and high throughput
- Build, productionalize, and maintain scalable cloud-based systems
- Design and implement high throughput services spanning all of Unity
- Optimize systems to provide best in class latency and uptime for a highly demanded internal service
- Translate product requirements into a technical design and implement solutions using all resources available
- Test, Deploy and Maintain production ready code
Our take
Unity Technologies is one of the world's leading game engines. The platform helps artists and developers in gaming to render 3D worlds in real time.
In recent years Unity has expanded its scope by bringing its technology to new industries, including car companies, and film and TV studios who are using Unity to manage production virtually. Having completed an IPO in 2020, Unity’s capabilities are also being used by companies such as Apple and Android to create better AR experiences.
In 2021, 72% of the top 1000 mobile games and 50% of games across mobile, PC and console were made with Unity. The company operates on over 20 different platforms and is active in 190+ countries and territories across the world and continues to develop its technologies and capabilities.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2019
$125m
SERIES E
Jun 2018
$145m
SERIES D
Total funding: $893.5m
Company values
- Users first: We put users first… they are rock stars and we are their biggest fans. Our shared dedication to users holds us together, defines and aligns our work and drives us to deliver for them
- Best ideas win: We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We have vigorous debates, we listen and learn, and we make sure the best ideas win. We care enough to go through the pain of messy conversations.
- In it together: We are Citizens of Unity. We act like owners. We’re activists; we have a voice and use it. We’re direct and candid, with good intent. We respect each other’s uniqueness and we’re in it together.
- Go bold: We do bold things. We go big and when we fail, we learn, get better and go big again. We challenge and elevate each other beyond our limits to do what may seem impossible. We stay curious and hungry
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
John Riccitiello
(President & CEO)Previously served as CEO, COO and president of Electronic Arts, and co-founded private equity firm Elevation Partners in 2004. Has served on several company boards.
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