Senior Backend Engineer

About Unit

Unit is building the platform to power the next generation of financial services. Our mission is to help companies expand financial access for all. Our simple and powerful banking-as-a-service API helps companies launch bank accounts, cards, payments, and lending in weeks - not years.

Unit was founded by a team with deep fintech and financial services experience and the first banking-as-a-service platform to reach unicorn status. We have raised over $169 million to date from top investors including Insight Partners, Accel, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Aleph, and Flourish and serve 140+ customers including AngelList, Honeybook, Roofstock, and many more.

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.
  
  

• 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