Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

ABOUT UNIT

Unit https://www.unit.co/ 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. https://www.cnbc.com/worlds-top-fintech-companies-2026/

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

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