Staff Backend Developer

Unity

full-time

Posted on: 9/29/2025

Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇨🇦 Canada

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💰 CA$153,000 - CA$210,908 per year

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About the role

Design, build, and modernise backend services and APIs that support ad delivery
Work on scalable, high-availability systems used across Unity’s ads ecosystem
Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and data teams to deliver new features
Improve performance, observability, and cost-efficiency of current backend systems, modernising the legacy stack
Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction of the platform
Support development of monetization features, ad delivery, bidding, reporting, impression tracking, and analytics with strict uptime and security requirements

Experience building backend services at scale
Proficiency in Golang
Proficiency with relational databases (e.g., MySQL)
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and observability tools (Kubernetes, Ray, etc.)
Understanding of API design, distributed systems, and system reliability
Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-first team environment
Experience in ad tech, programmatic advertising, or real-time bidding systems (nice-to-have)
Background with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) (nice-to-have)
Familiarity with networking, caching, or real-time data pipelines (nice-to-have)
Sufficient knowledge of English for professional verbal and written exchanges
Relocation support not available; work visa/immigration sponsorship not available

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees' well-being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our career page.

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