Sr. Full Stack Engineer
Senior full-stack engineer on Unity's Unified Ads Platform team in Toronto, owning TypeScript/NestJS services, relational data models, and APIs that serve as the source of truth for ads systems, plus React frontends, Kafka/Pub/Sub event-driven integrations, and production operation on Kubernetes.
- Compensation
- CA$125.3K–CA$175.9K / yr
- Location
- Toronto, Canada
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Category
- Fullstack
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 6+ years building and operating production software, with depth in both backend services and modern frontend
- Advanced TypeScript and experience with an opinionated, modular Node backend framework (NestJS or comparable DI/module architecture)
- Strong data modelling and SQL — schema design, migrations, performance at scale, and API versioning judgment
- Event-driven systems experience (Kafka, Pub/Sub, or similar) — delivery semantics, ordering, idempotency
- Advanced React — component design, state management, and performance in data-intensive interfaces
- Cloud-native operation — containerized services on Kubernetes, owning production (deployment, scaling, monitoring, incident response, on-call)
- Strong ownership mindset — correctness, observability, maintainability, testing, code review, accessibility
- Sufficient professional English knowledge for verbal and written communication with global colleagues and partners
Nice to have
- Background in ads, attribution, billing, or monetization systems
- Infrastructure-as-code experience — Kubernetes-native resource management, Terraform, or service mesh
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing in production
- Experience with design systems or configuration-driven UI frameworks
- Exposure to cross-team technical alignment or guild-style quality initiatives
Full description
The opportunity
At Unity, we’re building a world-class advertising platform that operates at a massive global scale. The Ads team powers the systems that connect advertisers with creators and players, driving performance, reliability, and growth across our ecosystem.
As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer on the Unified Ads Platform team, you’ll own the service layer where advertiser and publisher entities live. Campaigns and budget caps, applications and ad units, creative packs and the moderation pipeline behind them, offerwall currency, A/B tests, LevelPlay integration. These are the records the rest of the ads estate reads from, and our APIs are the source of truth for them across serving, billing, and reporting.
This role goes beyond building an API and moving on. The data you model is consumed by systems you don’t own, in paths where a wrong value costs money. You’ll design contracts that stay stable as the product changes, keep state consistent across service boundaries, and own the correctness and availability of all of it in production.
This role is ideal for someone strong on both sides of the stack who thinks in terms of data contracts and correctness, and who wants real ownership of systems other engineering teams depend on. As the team grows, this role has a path to evolve into a Tech Lead Manager position.
What you’ll be doing
Design, build, and operate services in our TypeScript platform (NestJS) across a large domain model, owning the APIs and data contracts that downstream ads systems depend on
Model entity data for scale and change — relational schema design, migrations, and schema evolution against tables that serving, billing, and reporting all read from
Design and build event-driven integrations with Kafka and Google Cloud Pub/Sub, using patterns such as transactional outbox and idempotent consumers to maintain consistency across service boundaries.
Deliver the user-facing surfaces on top of the platform in React and TypeScript, turning dense entity and performance data into workflows publishers and advertisers can trust
Operate what you build on Kubernetes, where the service declares its own cloud infrastructure alongside its code, and take real ownership of its SLOs
Drive observability and quality across the platform — distributed tracing, metrics, and testing frameworks
Set the standards for how the service is built and hold the line on them in design and code review, mentoring engineers as you go
What we’re looking for
6+ years
building and operating production software, with real depth on both backend services and modern frontend
Advanced TypeScript
, and experience with an opinionated, modular Node backend framework — NestJS, or comparable dependency‑injection and module architectures