About the job
Current is a pioneering consumer fintech platform that is redefining financial accessibility for everyday Americans, boasting over 6 million members. Our platform integrates financial solutions that work in harmony to meet the diverse needs of our users, empowering all Americans to forge better financial futures. Based in the heart of NYC, our dynamic, results-focused environment motivates us to develop superior products, accelerate growth, and enable every team member to make a meaningful contribution toward our mission of enhancing financial well-being.
The Engineering team at Current is committed to constructing our products and infrastructure. Our applications are powered by Google Cloud Kubernetes Engine, supporting a proprietary banking core capable of processing millions of transactions daily. Our technology stack features MongoDB and Spanner for data persistence, Pub/Sub for asynchronous event handling, Dataflow for data transformation, and BigQuery alongside Google Cloud Storage for data analytics and storage. Our backend services utilize Java, and our data pipelines are crafted in Scala.
We operate across a wide array of domains, including user-centric products such as liquidity offerings and reward programs, infrastructure to support machine learning and experimentation, real-time fraud detection, identity protection, and large-scale transaction processing across various payment channels.
We are on the lookout for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our New York team. This role offers a competitive salary range of $170,000 - $250,000. As a pivotal member of our team, you will spearhead key business initiatives, enhance existing architecture and services, and design large-scale, data-intensive applications. The ideal candidate will possess a solid background in backend development with experience in cloud-hosted services. A self-motivated individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment will excel in this role.

