Senior Backend Engineer

HybridSalary not specified

Tech Stack

ScalaKubernetesCI/CD

Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements

About the Position

Senior Backend Engineer

Join Unit as a Senior Backend Engineer in our Tel Aviv office. Shape the future of embedded finance with our team, focusing on scalable backend services and microservices.

About the Company

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. We are proud to be recognized on CNBC World's Top Fintech Companies.

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 groundbreaking 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.

We Offer

  • Full-time position.
  • Hybrid work location type.
  • Opportunity to work in a fast-growing, global team.
  • Be part of a mission to create a more equitable financial ecosystem.

About the Location

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Employment Type

Full-time

Work Location Type

Hybrid

Job Details

Location:
Israel
Employment Type:
Full-time
Work Mode:
Hybrid
Posted on TheJob:
Jul 26, 2026
Last checked:
Jul 26, 2026
Posted on the source:
Oct 15, 2025
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