Senior Backend Engineer

Job description

ABOUT UNIT

Unit is a market leader in embedded finance. We offer ready-to-launch financial services - like banking and capital - and serve millions of end-users across ~100 customers, including Wix, Bill.com, Honeybook, Relay, and more.

We’re repeat founders with technical backgrounds, working hard to build a successful company that we’re proud to work at. Our product moves $40b+ annually and processes 12m+ API calls daily. We’ve raised $160m+ from top investors including Insight, Accel, and 60+ angels.

THE ROLE

As a key member of our team, you’ll have a significant impact on shaping the direction of the company and product. You will manage Unit features from design to deployment, solve complex issues, and collaborate with different teams.

For the right candidate, this is a rare opportunity to help build an industry-defining company from the ground up.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Implement enterprise-grade backend services which can handle Unit’s scale and use cases.

  • Own and develop Unit features end-to-end - from design, through implementation, testing and deployment.

  • Solve diverse, complex problems at a large scale distributed microservices environment

  • Interact with various teams across Unit and work together to deliver ground breaking features in the fields of Banking, Payments, Cards and Lending.

  • Develop solutions for developers, with a strong emphasis on performance and quality.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR?

  • 5+ years of backend development experience, in a microservice environment

  • Hands-on experience with building, deploying and maintaining testable, scalable systems in a cloud environment

  • Good understanding of critical production systems concepts - high availability, reliability, and scalability

  • Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)

  • Experience with CI/CD

  • Production experience with Kubernetes - advantage

  • Experience with Scala - advantage

  • Passion for Software and Functional Programming - advantage

  • Experience with ZIO / Cats / scalaz - advantage

  • Experience with DDD, EventSourcing, CQRS - advantage

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LIFE AT UNIT

Working at Unit means joining a global team on a mission to create a more equitable financial ecosystem. We’re a fast-growing team of individuals who are passionate about their work, see the big picture and always seek to empower our clients and their end-customers.

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Unit

Financial infrastructure platform

  • 51-200 employees
  • Founded in 2019
  • 1 remote job

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