SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, Data/ML Platform

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, Neo4j, and Postgres. Our services are written in Java and TypeScript. 

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team in New York. This role has a salary range of $170,000 -$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 strong 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:
• 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:

• Significant professional backend development experience
• Extensive 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:

• 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