1 day ago
Brighton, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable services and APIs for real-time collaborative editing, game publishing, and content delivery.
- Own backend features end to end from initial design through shipped code and production operation.
- Make architectural trade-offs, break down complex problems, and lead technical designs with the team.
- Contribute across infrastructure as code, CI/CD, internal tooling, and occasional frontend changes.
- Monitor platform reliability, respond to production incidents, and address underlying causes.
- Use AI coding tools critically and help the team improve how they use them.
- Review code and designs, mentor engineers, and raise engineering quality standards.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience building, operating, and owning backend services at scale in production, including monitoring, debugging, and remediation.
- Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend programming language and willingness to learn others.
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems, API design, data persistence, data consistency, and state management.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and containerized, orchestrated deployments.
- Experience with real-time or multiplayer systems such as WebSockets, collaborative editing, or state synchronization.
- Sound technical judgment and effective written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical colleagues.
- Comfort working with ambiguity and critically reviewing AI-generated code.
- Experience with Unity Engine or other interactive 3D technology is advantageous.
- Experience building backend services for games or interactive media is advantageous.
Benefits
- Relocation support is not available.
- Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.
- Base salary ranges from £55,700 to £83,500 GBP in Zone A and £63,700 to £95,500 GBP in Zone B, with possible equity awards and company incentive-plan participation.
- Benefits may include health, life, and disability insurance, commute subsidy, employee stock ownership, retirement or pension plans, vacation and personal days, parental and family-care programs, office food snacks, mental-health support, employee resource groups, employee assistance, training, and volunteering or donation matching.
- Benefits and eligibility vary by country and employment status.
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About Unity
Unity is a public software company that builds the Unity real-time 3D engine and services for creating, operating, and monetizing games and interactive 3D content across mobile, PC, console, and XR. It sells subscription licenses and usage-based services such as cloud build, ads, and analytics to studios and enterprises in gaming, automotive, film, and AR/VR. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, it trades on the NYSE (U).