Software Engineer, Backend

Icon; Portland (OR); Remote; USD 100,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative FinTech company is seeking a Backend Services Engineer to help design and implement foundational components for a groundbreaking retirement savings product. This role emphasizes collaboration and ownership of development, focusing on creating seamless integrations and enhancing user experience. Join a fully remote team dedicated to building a more equitable financial future, with opportunities for professional growth and a strong emphasis on work-life balance. If you're passionate about technology and eager to contribute to meaningful change, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Fully paid Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

Generous equity

Flexible work environment

Great life-work balance

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Java or a similar language.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems design and related tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Develop new services in Java that integrate with our partners.
• Expand and improve our internal client APIs in Node.js and Apollo GraphQL.

Skills

Java

Node.js

GraphQL

RESTful APIs

Distributed Systems Design

Communication Skills

Collaboration

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About Us

Our Vision: To (re)build retirement benefits for the 21st century workforce and drive the transition to portable retirement plans.

Icon Savings Plan is a new category defining product. It’s the first Portable Retirement Plan (PRP)-- a universally accessible workplace savings plan, and modern alternative to 401k plans. We believe that by radically simplifying retirement savings, we can help create a more equitable and financially secure future for everyone. We enable all types of companies to provide low cost, high-quality retirement savings plans and financial wellness solutions to all types of employees.

About Us

Our Vision: To (re)build retirement benefits for the 21st century workforce and drive the transition to portable retirement plans.

Icon Savings Plan is a new category defining product. It’s the first Portable Retirement Plan (PRP)-- a universally accessible workplace savings plan, and modern alternative to 401k plans. We believe that by radically simplifying retirement savings, we can help create a more equitable and financially secure future for everyone. We enable all types of companies to provide low cost, high-quality retirement savings plans and financial wellness solutions to all types of employees.

Our goal is to help everyone have a long and happy life through increased financial security. We’re always looking for talented people who are interested in building the future alongside us.

Our team is a fully-distributed set of industry experts. We're focused on building a fantastic solution for businesses and employees. Our common-sense approach to behavioral design, as well as trust in our own expertise makes this a unique opportunity to join an early stage team.

We offer fully paid Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, and generous equity and pay. Our team is all throughout the West in Washington, California, Oregon, Idaho, and Colorado. Come join us and build something totally new in FinTech.

This position is fully Remote worker compatible for USA based employees only. Please note that we cannot sponsor any Visas or have remote employees outside of the USA. Occasional travel to Portland, OR may be required.

About You

We're looking for a Backend Services Engineer who can help put in place many of our foundational components. You'll be responsible for end-to-end design of API's and service integrations with our partners as well as internal client applications. You're used to collaborating with a small team and owning large swaths of development.

The right person is very product oriented, and thinks deeply about our customer experience. Our requirements and understanding of the business change all the time, and the thought of being able to fill in the blanks excites you. A background in financial services is not required but very useful.

What You'll Do

• Develop new services in Java that integrate with our partners
• Expand and improve our internal client API's in Node.js and Apollo GraphQL
• Translate product needs for securities trading and funds flows into soundly designed systems and architecture
• Help establish key processes and norms of our engineering culture as we grow the team
• Integrate 3rd party API's and platforms into our core product to help drive the product forward
  
  

Skills You'll Need

• Strong proficiency in Java or a similar language
• Solid understanding of distributed systems design and related tradeoffs
• Familiarity with GraphQL and/or RESTful APIs
• A strong collaborator who is transparent about progress on tasks, seeks feedback early and often, works effectively with the team
• Top notch communication skills and a penchant for remote work
• Prior experience working at an early-stage venture backed startup highly desirable
• Strong product and customer orientation with a lot of curiosity as well as leadership
  
  

Why You Might Be Excited About Us

• We started off as a remote team. We are committed to finding the best talent and location isn’t a barrier.
• We have a density of people in San Francisco CA, Portland OR, and Denver CO if you want to meet in person more regularly.
• Great life-work balance with a high trust environment.
• We’re working to create a more equitable future for everyone.
  
  

Icon Savings

Most American employees do not have access to a workplace retirement plan, that’s about 81 million working Americans. Icon is a FinTech company that’s built a new kind of workplace retirement benefit designed for the modern mobile workforce. Icon enables every type of company, from small startup, to large corporation, and even gig platforms to offer every worker a high-quality, low cost plan. It’s a more inclusive and sustainable system for delivering workplace savings.

For Employers: Icon delivers fully-designed, ready to use, digital retirement plans that make everything faster, easier, and radically less expensive.

For Employees: Icon transforms retirement savings into a personalized, portable plan that stays with you—no more rollovers, no more high fees.

Icon is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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