Senior Backend Engineer

Mar 31, 2025
Tel Aviv, Israel
... Not specified
... Senior
Full time
... Office work

The opportunity
We’re looking for a skilled Scala developer with a strong background in distributed systems to join our team. You’ll be working on the core backend of Unity/iAds ad-serving platform, powering ads for millions of daily users.

In this role, you’ll help improve our system's performance, scalability, and reliability. You’ll work with cutting-edge technologies like Kafka, Aerospike, and Kubernetes, contributing to a platform that drives a significant part of the company's revenue.

This is an exciting opportunity to deeply impact our business, working within a team that sits at the heart of our backend systems.

What you'll be doing

  • Develop features in a high-scale, real-time environment.
  • Work on critical projects at the core of our revenue stream.
  • Propose and implement new ideas to enhance system functionality and performance.
  • Help design and build robust and scalable solutions.

What we're looking for

  • Proven Experience: 5+ years building large-scale systems.
  • Backend Development: 2+ years with Scala, Java, or Go.
  • Technical Expertise: Experience with Kafka in high-performance systems.
  • Performance Focus: A strong understanding of scalability, latency, and throughput.
  • Knowledge of functional programming is a plus.

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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