The opportunity

Aura, a revolutionary large-scale mobile platform, is looking for an outstanding and passionate Senior Backend Engineer to join a rapidly growing team. We work in a fast-paced environment, building a content discovery platform used by millions of users.

The service enables unique content discovery experiences allowing users to access and find their favorite content in a simple and accessible way.

Our team uses the most up-to-date technologies to build a scalable and resilient product that is growing at a high pace.

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

• Designing and developing scalable and resilient backend systems using Node.js
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on project goals and timelines
• Identifying and addressing complex technical challenges related to scalability and performance
• Contributing to the overall architecture and design of the content discovery platform

What we're looking for

• Experienced building the server-side of enterprise-level systems (high-performance, highly available, and scalable systems) in Nodejs.
• Hands-on experience with SQL & NoSQL databases such as Postgres, Aerospike, Mongo, DynamoDB, Redis
• Good understanding of modern Stream Processing and Event Sourcing paradigms.
• Experience in designing and implementation of highly scalable & distributed web applications
• Knowledge & experience with public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, Google

You might also have

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code development such as Pulumi or Terraform.
• Experience with microservices and kubernetes.
• Previous ad-tech experience

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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