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Senior Backend Engineer

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Finance

Senior Backend Engineer

Tel Aviv Office; Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Remote
Full-time
Posted Oct 15, 2025
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Engineering
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ABOUT UNIT

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.

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.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR?

  • 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

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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.

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Company profile

<p>Tech companies—including AngelList and Bill.com—use its technology to offer their own customers banking products like checking accounts, credit cards, loans or payment services. Launched in December 2020, Unit lacks a banking license, so it partners with banks to help companies lend, store and move money.</p> <p>Funding: $170 million from Insight Partners, Accel, Aleph and others.</p> <p>Latest valuation: $1.2 billion.</p> <p>Date of last valuation: May 2022.</p> <p>Bona fides: In 2023, Unit surpassed $22 billion in transaction volume, up from $4 billion in 2022.</p> <p>Cofounders: CEO Itai Damti, 38, and CTO Doron Somech, 38, serial entrepreneurs who met as software engineers for the Israeli military and then cofounded Leverate, a tech firm that makes software for financial services brokers.</p> <p>Headquarters: New York, New York.</p>

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New York, New York, United States

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