Senior Software Engineer - Full-Stack with Distributed Systems Focus - Remote

Overview

Unybrands was established in 2020 by a group of partners united by a shared vision: to build the leading next-generation e-commerce platform for micro-brands. Headquartered in Miami, the company has a global presence with teams in Berlin, London, New York, and China.

Unybrands acquires e-commerce businesses that sell both on and off Amazon. Once acquired, these brands are integrated into Unybrands' platform, where operations are optimized, business performance is enhanced, and expansion into new product lines and markets is driven. Currently we have acquired 30 brands including Pet Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Supplements, Baby & Juvenile, Garden & Outdoor, Sports & Fitness, and Home, Lifestyle Culinary & Arts. Through expert management and robust infrastructure, Unybrands empowers e-commerce brands to scale and thrive.

In Short

• We're looking for one of our first senior engineers to help build our event-driven e-commerce platform.
• Strong distributed systems experience is required.
• Work across the entire stack from backend services to modern React applications.
• Engineers should understand message-driven architectures.
• Production experience with at least one of: Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, EventBridge, Pulsar.
• TypeScript/JavaScript expertise with modern frameworks (React preferred).
• SQL database experience with complex data modeling.
• API integration experience with third-party systems.
• Willingness to learn Rust if not already known.
• Own features from PostgreSQL to React UI.

Requirements

• 5+ years software development with production systems.
• Strong distributed systems experience with message-based architectures.
• Production experience with event-driven systems.
• Understanding of distributed systems patterns: event sourcing, CQRS, saga pattern, eventual consistency.
• Strong experience in any modern language (Go, Java, C#, Python, Node.js).
• Experience with AWS services (SQS, EventBridge, Lambda, EKS).
• Ability to debug issues across multiple services and message queues.
• Can context-switch between backend services and React UI.

Benefits

• Opportunity to shape architecture decisions from day one.
• Build tools that directly improve operations and competitive advantage.
• Work with a modern tech stack.
• Handle complex async workflows with proper error recovery.
• Full-stack ownership of features.