R&D Team Lead

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Lead and mentor a talented engineering team, drive technological excellence, and solve complex problems in a rapidly growing fintech company.

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, Bill.com, 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.

THE ROLE

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join our R&D department. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead, inspire, and mentor a team of 7, talented and experienced engineers. Drive technological excellence and high product quality, foster a culture of excellence, ownership, and continuous personal and professional growth.

For the right candidate, this is a unique opportunity to build a high-demand product, and be part of building an industry-defining company from the ground up.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Mentor and guide the team members, ensuring each team member realizes their full potential while advancing the product vision.

  • Collaborate with product management and other teams across Unit to prioritize engineering initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals.

  • Continuously research and implement management best practices, including providing team members with frequent, actionable, constructive feedback.

  • Solve diverse, complex problems at a large scale distributed microservices environment.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

  • An experienced team leader (3+ years managing people)

  • 5+ years of backend development experience as a senior engineer

  • 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

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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