Principal Engineer

About the role

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. THE ROLE As a Principal Engineer at Unit’s CTO Office, you will help shape the long-term technical direction of our engineering organization. This role is centered around broad, cross-engineering technical challenges, with a focus on areas such as reliability, performance, architecture, cost effectiveness, developer experience, and security. You will work closely with engineering teams across the organization on key initiatives that improve how we build, operate, and scale our systems. This includes leading technical efforts, identifying opportunities for engineering improvements, and helping ensure that as our product evolves, our technology continues to develop in a healthy and scalable man