Software Engineer, Backend

Job Description

SOFTWARE ENGINEER, BACKEND (Mid – Sr)

Current is a leading U.S. fintech serving people who have been overlooked by traditional banks with nearly 4 million members. Headquartered in NYC, our results-driven environment enables us to build better products, grow faster and empower everyone on our team to have an impact on our business and our mission to improve financial outcomes for our members.

Currents 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. We use a variety of databases, including MongoDB, Neo4j, and Postgres. Our services are written in Java and TypeScript.

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team in New York. This role has a salary range of$125,000 -$235,000. You will work to deliver on 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
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 Currents users access new decentralized financial systems for wealth creation
ABOUT YOU:

Significant professional backend development
Production experience with a JVM language
Proficiency in both RDBMS and NoSQL databases
A good grasp of concurrency and multi-threading

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
Flexibletime 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 Chelsea-based office with open floor plan, stocked kitchen, and catered lunches

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