SOFTWARE ENGINEER, ASSOCIATE
At Current, we’re on a mission to enable our members to create better financial outcomes for themselves. Headquartered in NYC, we’re a leading U.S. fintech and one of the fastest growing companies with nearly 4 million members. No matter your title, we’re a team that collaborates on building great products and making an impact together.
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. We use a variety of databases, including MongoDB,Postgres, and Spanner. 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 base salary range of $125,000 - $150,000. 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 apply 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 Current’s users access new decentralized financial systems for wealth creation
ABOUT YOU:
- Less than one year of professional experience in software development or related roles
- Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent
- Production experience with one of the following languages: Java and Scala
- Experience with cloud-hosted services, like AWS or GCP
- Proficiency in both RDBMS and NoSQL databases
- A good grasp of concurrency and multi-threading
- Prior internship or project experience in software development is a plus
BENEFITS:
- Hybrid workspace
- 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 apps
- Team building activities
- Our modern Chelsea-based office with open floor plan, stocked kitchen, and catered lunches
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What We Do
Current is a U.S. based consumer fintech and payments platform with over four million members and a mission to improve financial outcomes. It provides mobile banking services that give its members access to opportunities to improve their financial lives, such as paychecks up to two days early, up to 4% APY, fee-free overdraft, money management tools and insights, fee-free ATMs, no fee crypto trading, a cash back rewards system and family banking.
Why Work With Us
We turn ideas into reality. We're leaders beyond our titles and experience. Focused on our rapid growth, we're a social team with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that celebrates our successes together. At Current, we all make an impact. Above all, we’re committed to our mission and dedicated to being a part of building something great.
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Current Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
