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Fintech, Mobile Banking, Financial Services

Senior Software Engineer

New York, NYOnsiteFull TimeSenior$170,000–$250,000 /yrPosted 1 month ago

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Required skills

  • Google Cloud Kubernetes Engine
  • proprietary banking core
  • millions of transactions
  • backend services
  • data pipelines
  • user-facing products
  • liquidity offerings
  • reward programs
  • machine learning infrastructure
  • experimentation infrastructure

Nice to have

  • stock options
  • performance bonus program
  • performance reviews
  • Flexible time off
  • paid holidays
  • parental leave policy

Role summary

Current is a leading consumer fintech platform seeking a Senior Backend Engineer in NYC. The role involves leading key business initiatives, improving architecture, and designing large-scale data-intensive applications. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of backend experience, preferably with a JVM language like Java, and experience with cloud-hosted services and databases (RDBMS/NoSQL). The company utilizes a stack including Google Cloud, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Spanner, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, and BigQuery, with backend services in Java and data pipelines in Scala. Responsibilities include end-to-end delivery, system design, and mentoring engineers. The role offers a competitive salary ($170k-$250k) and benefits.

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Current is a leading consumer fintech platform transforming financial access for everyday Americans with over 6 million members. We provide access to financial solutions that seamlessly work together to solve the needs of our members and enable all Americans to build better financial futures. Based in NYC, our results-driven environment drives us to build better products, grow faster and empower everyone on our team to have an impact on our business and mission to improve financial outcomes.

Current’s Engineering team is dedicated to building our products and infrastructure. With our applications running on Google Cloud Kubernetes Engine, we support a proprietary banking core that can scale to handle millions of transactions a day. Our stack includes MongoDB and Spanner for persistence, Pub/Sub for asynchronous event processing, Dataflow for data transformation paired with BigQuery and Google Cloud Storage for data storage and analytics. Our backend services are written in Java and our data pipelines are built in Scala.

We work across a broad set of domains, including user-facing products like liquidity offerings and reward programs, infrastructure for machine learning and experimentation, real-time fraud detection and identity protection, and large-scale transaction processing across multiple payment rails.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team in New York. This role has a salary range of $170,000 - $250,000. You will work to lead key business initiatives, improve existing architecture and services, and design large-scale data-intensive applications. 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.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

  • Owning the end-to-end delivery of key business initiatives from product discovery, to system design, and all the way to feature launch
  • Architecting and evolving core distributed services for reliability, scalability, and performance
  • Designing and delivering large-scale data-intensive applications with cutting edge techniques in:
  • Real-time transaction decisioning
  • Stream-processing
  • Machine learning
  • Evolving org-wide engineering standards for architecture, testing, and monitoring practices and documentation
  • Mentoring engineers through code and architecture reviews, raising the technical bar of the team
  • Partnering with product, data and business stakeholders to shape technical direction and product roadmap

    • ABOUT YOU:

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, with backend experience using a JVM language, preferably Java
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
  • Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, object-oriented design, and multi-threaded programming
  • Experience with cloud-hosted services, like AWS or GCP
  • Proficiency in both RDBMS and NoSQL databases
  • Strong problem-solving and communication skills

    • BENEFITS:

  • Competitive salary
  • Meaningful equity in the form of stock options
  • 401(k) plan
  • Discretionary performance bonus program
  • Biannual performance reviews
  • Medical, Dental and Vision premiums covered at 100% for you and your dependents
  • Flexible time off and paid holidays
  • Generous parental leave policy
  • Commuter benefits
  • Fitness benefits
  • Healthcare and Dependent care FSA benefit
  • Employee Assistance Programs focused on mental health
  • Healthcare advocacy program for all employees
  • Access to mental health apps
  • Team building activities
  • Our modern NYC based office with open floor plan, stocked kitchen, and catered lunches
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