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Senior Software Engineer

new york, NY

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Current lists this Senior Software Engineer opportunity in new york, New York. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

Current is a leading consumer fintech platform transforming financial access for everyday Americans with over 5 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 Backend Engineer to join our team in New York. This role has a salary range of $150,000 - $240,000. 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:

Stream-processing

Machine learning

Evolving the company standards for engineering excellence by helping to improve architecture, testing, and monitoring practices

Helping Current’s users access new decentralized financial systems for wealth creation

ABOUT YOU:

Significant professional backend development experience

Production experience with a JVM language

Experience with cloud-hosted services, like AWS or GCP

Proficiency in both RDBMS and NoSQL databases

A good grasp of concurrency and multi-threading

BENEFITS:

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

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

About the company

Current is a mobile banking app and Visa debit card that offers online checking accounts with up to two days faster direct deposits and no hidden, overdraft or minimum balance fees.

Notice

Talentify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Talentify provides reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants with disabilities, including disabled veterans. Request assistance at or .

Federal law requires every new hire to complete Form I-9 and present proof of identity and U.S. work eligibility.

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