Staff Backend Developer, Parsec Montreal (Canada) Unity Technologies Backend Development Senior[...]

Gamecompanies; Montreal; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Staff Software Developer for its Parsec team in Montreal. This role focuses on deploying cutting-edge web applications and services while mentoring junior developers. Candidates should have extensive experience with cloud architecture and high-availability systems, contributing to an inclusive and diverse workplace.

Qualifications

• Experience with REST and WebSocket APIs.
• Experience managing infrastructure costs.
• Ability to mentor junior developers.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and guide developers in application development.
• Design and maintain high-availability APIs.
• Communicate effectively across teams.

Skills

Web applications

APIs

Serverless architecture

Observability platforms

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Unity is looking for a Staff Software Developer to join the Parsec team, focused on pushing the boundaries of what's possible in remote collaboration, hybrid work, and enterprise management.

Parsec offers ultra-low latency, high-performance remote access technology that enables creative professionals to work from anywhere, businesses to support hybrid work, and individuals to collaborate in real-time. Our platform delivers near-native performance for creatives, game developers, and enterprise users needing responsive, high-fidelity computing.

You will mentor and guide developers as they design, build, and deploy web applications and services for remote access and cloud administration, and play a key role in designing technical solutions that focus on system performance, reliability, and cost optimization at scale.

What you'll be doing

Work with senior developers and managers to provide technical design and architecture for Parsec’s APIs, signaling service, and billing to maintain high availability at scale

Design, build, test, and maintain underlying web applications, APIs, and micro-services

Maintain clear and effective communication within the team and broader organization

Mentor other engineers and establish engineering best practices that allow the team to achieve assigned projects and goals

Operate within a distributed team and collaborate with colleagues both local and remote

Collaborate with colleagues from product, frontend, native, DevOps, security, and QA

What we're looking for

Experience building large scale, highly available web apps and APIs (REST, WebSocket) that allow our customers to monitor and control extensive fleets of IT equipment

Demonstrated ability to orchestrate and manage serverless cloud architecture

Experience using and maintaining observability platforms for: logging, metrics, application monitoring/tracing. (Cloudwatch, Athena and Sentry, etc)

Experience managing infrastructure costs through cloud service dashboards and alerting

Experience running a high availability production service or product with on call shifts

Experience mentoring developers to improve their skills and make them more effective

You might also have

Experience working with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)

Experience with networking technologies (STUN servers, NAT traversal)

Development experience with native programming language like C and C++

Working knowledge of the Parsec app and remote access administration dashboards

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 .

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know.

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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