Senior Software Engineer

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

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.

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 appsTeam building activities
• Our modern NYC based office with open floor plan, stocked kitchen, and catered lunches