Unit

Senior Backend Engineer

9mo ago
WorldwideSeniorRemote
Unit

Senior Backend Engineer

9mo ago
WorldwideSeniorRemotemicroservicesbackendapideploymenttesting

Senior backend engineer to develop and manage Unit's enterprise-grade backend services and features in a large-scale distributed microservices environment.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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
  • #LI-Hybrid

Other

  • 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, 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.
  • 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.