Senior Backend Engineer

The opportunity

Unity LevelPlay is the world’s leading mediation platform for mobile advertising. It allows app developers to manage and optimize their ad monetization.

At the core of LevelPlay, the LevelPlay Infra team is responsible for the mission-critical Real-Time In-App Bidding system, which serves billions of requests per day.

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Senior Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing team. We work in a fast-paced environment, building a real-time bidding system which serves hundreds of millions of users.

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

• End-to-end development of backend software components (research, design, development, testing, rollout, monitoring)
• Contributing to technological and architectural decisions
• Conducting design and code reviews
• Analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various backend system components
• Interfacing with other teams and departments to deliver best-in-class features
  
  

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of production experience in building large scale server-side systems using a high level programming language (e.g. Scala, Java, Golang, Python)
• Experience with key-value stores such as Aerospike or Redis
• Experience with message queue technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, SQS)
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
  
  

You might also have

• Experience with Kubernetes / Docker and microservices based architecture
• Understanding of distributed stream processing
• Previous ad-tech experience
  
  

Additional Information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• International 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 world's leading platform of tools for creators to build and grow real-time games, apps, and experiences across multiple platforms. 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.

As of the fourth quarter of 2023, more than 69% of the top 1,000 mobile games are made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1,000 games in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. In 2023, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

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