Senior Backend Engineer — Scalable Data Systems (Remote)

Unit21, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% company-paid health insurance

Unlimited PTO

401(k)

Home office setup support

Equity (pre-IPO)

Job summary

Unit21, Inc. is a remote-first company solving financial crime with scalable data infrastructure. You will tackle distributed systems and large-scale data processing, partnering with cross-functional teams to design reliable, efficient pipelines and platforms.

The role is ideal for highly autonomous engineers who own from design through production, in a fast-paced environment with a strong emphasis on impact and growth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering or related field.
• Hands-on with Spark, Databricks, Flink, or Beam.
• Strong Python or OOP programming skills.
• Advanced SQL and data modeling abilities.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Terraform experience for IaC.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy scalable data infrastructure.
• Work with distributed systems and data pipelines.
• Lead and drive projects to completion.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams.
• Improve performance and reliability of data platforms.

Skills

Python programming

SQL

Distributed systems

Data modeling

Problem solving

Tools

Apache Spark

Databricks

Flink

Beam

Terraform

Job description

Unit21, Inc. is a remote-first company solving financial crime with scalable data infrastructure. You will tackle distributed systems and large-scale data processing, partnering with cross-functional teams to design reliable, efficient pipelines and platforms.

The role is ideal for highly autonomous engineers who own from design through production, in a fast-paced environment with a strong emphasis on impact and growth.