Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Tech Stack
Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
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.
Location
Tel Aviv Office
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Hybrid
Department
Engineering
The Role
As a key member of our engineering team, you’ll have a significant impact on shaping the direction of Unit’s platform and product. You will design and build backend services that operate in a large-scale distributed microservices environment, where business workflows span multiple systems and require careful handling of consistency, retries, failures, and long-lived execution.
You will own Unit features from design to deployment, solve complex distributed challenges, and collaborate with multiple teams across the company. For the right candidate, this is a rare opportunity to help build an industry-defining company from the ground up while working on problems in Banking, Payments, Cards, and Lending that demand precision, correctness, and accountability.
Key Responsibilities
- Implement enterprise-grade backend services that 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 in a large-scale distributed microservices environment.
- Design and implement workflow-based business processes spanning multiple microservices, with a strong focus on correctness under failure, observability, and resilience.
- Collaborate with various teams across Unit to deliver groundbreaking features in the fields of Banking, Payments, Cards, and Lending.
Requirements
- 8+ 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 Durable Execution Frameworks or similar long-running workflow orchestration systems (e.g. Temporal, Cadence, AWS Step Functions, Azure Durable Functions)
- 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
- Join a fast-growing team of passionate individuals
- Opportunity to work on industry-defining projects
- Competitive compensation package
- Opportunity to work in a hybrid environment
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.