Software Engineer - Unity Services Foundation

The opportunity

Unity is expanding beyond its engine to offer a variety of solutions for building games and real-time 3D experiences. Our team, Unity Services Foundation, is essential in this effort, providing foundational features to all internal service teams building Cloud services. As a platform team, we enable our internal users to save time and effort, allowing them to focus on developing unique features for their services. We build core functionality so internal teams don't have to reinvent the wheel.

We are looking for a Software Developer to join our team in Helsinki. You will focus on facilitating Web API development and improving our core API Gateways, which process a billion daily calls. Our Gateway platform provides foundational features to handle authentication, authorization, rate limiting and many other features to develop, publish and operate APIs. Our goal is to make it as simple as possible for service teams to expose endpoints through our Gateways and access necessary core features directly using our platform while ensuring high API standards and consistency across all Unity services.

As a member of our team, you will develop impactful features that address real developer challenges and contribute to our platform strategy, making a significant impact at Unity. We prioritize maintainability, resiliency, performance, security, and robust code, with a strong focus on developer experience. You'll work alongside senior backend developers, as well as the product team. Our team works mostly on backend related matters, but we value the adaptability to also work on frontend when needed. You will play a key role in user engagement, and regularly interact with and support our customers, seeing the direct impact of your work.

If you're passionate, curious, and eager to make a high impact, we'd love to hear from you!

What you'll be doing

• Participate in all phases of software development from design/architecture through implementation, testing, and maintenance. Building platform features that facilitate the development and operation of Web APIs
• Support teammates in code quality, operational excellence, and shared learning
• Participate actively in customer support by directly engaging with internal teams and assisting them in resolving any challenges or questions they may have
• Collaborate with our product manager, stakeholders, and customers to understand friction points, proposed solutions, and encourage the adoption of our tooling
• Participate proactively in refinement and strategy sessions with the team, promoting collaboration and mutual assistance

What we're looking for

• Able to design, develop and maintain high-quality web services and/or gateway solutions
• Experience in TypeScript / JavaScript, or any other commonly used language for web development
• Experience developing code leveraged by other developers
• Experience with Google Cloud (or any of the other major Cloud platforms)
• Strong communication skills and ability to work well with other teams and stakeholders

You might also have

• Expertise with Golang
• Expertise with Gateway related technologies (Istio, Envoy, etc.)
• Expertise with Kubernetes

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• International 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 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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