Senior Backend Scala Developer

The opportunity

Join our team working on Unity/ironSource’s iAds network ecosystem, powering one of the most advanced ad-serving platforms in the industry. As a Senior Backend Developer, you will design, develop, and maintain a high-performance, real-time system that handles millions of requests per second.

You’ll be expected to play a highly impactful role within the team, leading critical projects and driving improvements to the scalability, performance, and reliability of the system. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge solutions and influence the success of a globally recognized platform.

Why You'll Love This Role

Take ownership of major projects and core features.

Work alongside skilled engineers in a high-scale, real-time environment.

Grow your expertise while tackling technical challenges with technologies like Scala, Kafka, and Aerospike.

What You'll Be Doing

Design, develop, and monitor new features for the iAds ecosystem.

• Maintain and optimize the performance of the existing system.
• Refactor and improve legacy code to ensure scalability and efficiency.
• Lead efforts to ensure the system’s scalability, reliability, and low latency.
• Collaborate with peers to deliver high-quality, production-ready solutions.
  
  

What We're Looking For

Hands-on expertise with Scala/Java.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems and real-time, high-concurrency applications.
• Proficiency in Kafka and other streaming/messaging systems.
• Extensive experience debugging and optimizing high-scale production environments.
• Proven ability to design and build backend systems focused on performance and scalability.
  
  

You might also have

Experience with Aerospike or similar NoSQL databases.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes or container orchestration tools.
• Knowledge of functional programming paradigms.
  
  

Additional Information

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 leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. 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 third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.

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