Senior Software Engineer

### Who you are
- The ideal candidate should have a background in backend development and experience working with cloud-hosted services
- This person should also be a motivated self-starter who is able to feel at ease working in a fast-paced environment
- Significant professional backend development experience
- Production experience with a JVM language
- Experience with cloud-hosted services, like AWS or GCP
- Proficiency in both RDBMS and NoSQL databases
- A good grasp of concurrency and multi-threading

### What the job involves
- We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team in New York
- You will work to deliver on key business initiatives, improve existing architecture and services, and design large-scale data-intensive applications
- Owning the end-to-end delivery of key business initiatives from product discovery, to system design, and all the way to feature launch
- Learning and applying distributed system optimization patterns
- A strong culture of code and architecture review
- Designing and delivering large-scale data-intensive applications with cutting edge techniques in:
- Real-time transaction decisioning
- Stream-processing
- Machine learning
- Evolving the company standards for engineering excellence by helping to improve architecture, testing, and monitoring practices
- Helping Current’s users access new decentralized financial systems for wealth creation

### Benefits
- Company equity
- Flexible vacation policy
- Commuter benefits
- Discretionary bonus program
- Medical, Dental & Vision