Senior Backend Engineer

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

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.

• Write clean, highly scalable, and top-quality code that sets industry standards.

• Work closely with the Product, Architects, DevOps, and BI.

• Continuously learn and stay up to date with emerging trends and technologies in the industry.

• Drive innovation by researching and implementing new technologies and best practices within the development team.
   

What we're looking for

• 4+ years of experience building the server-side of enterprise-level systems (high-performance, highly available, and scalable systems) preferably in Nodejs.

• Hands-on experience with SQL & NoSQL databases such as Postgres/MySQL, 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.

• Experience working with AI agents and agentic coding concepts.
   

You might also have

• Experience with microservices and Kubernetes.

• Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow or Temporal for managing complex data pipelines.

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code development such as Pulumi or Terraform.

• Deep knowledge of NodeJS.

• Previous ad-tech experience.

This range reflects the anticipated base salary for this position. Beyond base salary, this role may be eligible for equity awards and participation in our company incentive plans (such as annual discretionary bonuses or sales commissions). The final offer amount will depend on several factors, including geographic location and the candidate’s relevant experience, professional background, and skill set.

Benefits

At Unity, we want our team members to thrive. We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support well-being and work-life balance.

Please note: Benefits eligibility, specific offerings, and coverage vary based on the country and employment status.

While specific benefits vary, here are some of the ways we strive to take care of our eligible team members globally: Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance | Commute subsidy | Employee stock ownership | Competitive retirement/pension plans | Generous vacation and personal days | Support for new parents through leave and family-care programs | Office food snacks | Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support | Employee Resource Groups | Global Employee Assistance Program | Training and development programs | Volunteering and donation matching program

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the world’s leading game engine, powering play for more than 3 billion consumers each month. The top mobile games in the world, the most played PC indie titles, the most innovative console games, and virtually all of the top XR and Web Games are developed, deployed, and grown in Unity. Unity also enables teams across industries like automotive, manufacturing, and healthcare to design, simulate, and collaborate in 3D — closing the gap between ideas and reality. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

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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.
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