Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

Unit is a market leader in embedded finance, offering ready-to-launch financial services. As a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer, you will design and build backend services in a large-scale distributed microservices environment, handling 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.

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
• 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

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Stock options
• Health insurance
• Retirement plan
• Paid time off