Senior Backend Engineer – Real-Time Data, Cloud & Scale

Current; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

401(k) plan

Performance bonus program

Biannual reviews

Commuter benefits

New York office with amenities

Job summary

Current is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer in New York to help build scalable data-intensive applications on a modern cloud stack. You will work on core services, guide architecture, and drive performance improvements while collaborating with product and data teams.

The ideal candidate has extensive Java/JVM experience, a strong foundation in algorithms, and hands-on cloud experience with AWS or GCP. A proactive, fast-paced contributor will thrive in this environment.

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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, and 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

Skills

Java

JVM

Multi-threaded programming

Algorithms & data structures

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field

Tools

AWS

GCP

MongoDB

Spanner

Pub/Sub

Dataflow

BigQuery

Job description

Current is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer in New York to help build scalable data-intensive applications on a modern cloud stack. You will work on core services, guide architecture, and drive performance improvements while collaborating with product and data teams.

The ideal candidate has extensive Java/JVM experience, a strong foundation in algorithms, and hands-on cloud experience with AWS or GCP. A proactive, fast-paced contributor will thrive in this environment.