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SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Current is a leading consumer fintech platform transforming financial access for everyday Americans with over 6 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 Senior Backend Engineer to join our team in New York. This role has a salary range of $200,000 - $240,000. You will work to lead 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
- Architecting and evolving core distributed services for reliability, scalability, and performance
- Designing and delivering large-scale data-intensive applications with cutting edge techniques in:
- Real-time transaction decisioning
- Stream-processing
- Machine learning
- Evolving org-wide engineering standards for architecture, testing, and monitoring practices and documentation
- Mentoring engineers through code and architecture reviews, raising the technical bar of the team
- Partnering with product, data and business stakeholders to shape technical direction and product roadmap
ABOUT YOU:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with backend experience using a JVM language, preferably Java
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, object-oriented design, and multi-threaded programming
- Experience with cloud-hosted services, like AWS or GCP
- Proficiency in both RDBMS and NoSQL databases
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
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
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SENIOR FULL-STACK ENGINEER
Current is a leading consumer fintech platform transforming financial access for everyday Americans with over 6 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.
We’re looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join our growing Full-Stack Team in New York. You will work closely with product and design counterparts to build web experiences for Current’s millions of users as well as internal users, and contribute directly to the back-end services that power them. You will be responsible for the full feature development lifecycle from idea to deployment and refinement.
Current’s Full-Stack Team is dedicated to creating robust and responsive web experiences. We work on a mix of user growth initiatives as well as internal tooling to monitor and assist our existing members.
This role has a base salary range of $150,000 - $240,000. Compensation is determined based on experience, skill level, and qualifications, which are assessed during the interview process. Current offers a competitive total rewards package which includes base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Building web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks
- Creating endpoints to support complex UI
- Maintaining high-quality code and patterns
- Collaborating with engineers, product managers, and designers to build new features and shape roadmap
- Owning projects end-to-end from ideation, execution, alert monitoring, and post-launch iteration
ABOUT YOU:
- Significant professional front-end engineering experience, with a few years of full-stack development
- You’re motivated to build with best practices, having experience in modern front-end frameworks (React or Vue) and a deep understanding of JavaScript and related web technologies
- You're eager to learn, open to discussion and feedback, and able to manage tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills
- Proficiency in both RDBMS and NoSQL databases
BONUS:
- Typescript
- Node JS
- Java
- GRPC Web
- Vitest
- Functional Programming
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
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Current is a leading consumer fintech platform transforming financial access for everyday Americans with over 6 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.
About the Role
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team and apply ML/AI techniques to solve business problems at scale. You'll find creative ways to apply ML where it can move the needle, leverage existing tooling and frameworks, and ship production solutions that deliver measurable impact. The ideal candidate is a strong backend engineer with hands-on ML experience who thrives on turning business problems into production ML solutions. This role has a salary range of $200,000 - $250,000.
What You'll Work On
Our work spans many areas, and here are a few examples of active problem spaces:
- Predictive models for user conversion that directly reduce acquisition costs
- Mining customer and transaction data to surface insights that shape product strategy
- Applying LLMs creatively to interpret customer behavior and make sense of unstructured data
- Real-time fraud detection, identity protection, and transaction decisioning
Responsibilities
- Owning end-to-end delivery of ML-powered initiatives from problem discovery through system design to production launch
- Building and evolving systems across the backend and ML stack, from microservices and data pipelines to feature engineering and model tooling
- Evolving org-wide engineering standards for architecture, testing, and monitoring practices and documentation
- Mentoring engineers through code and architecture reviews, raising the technical bar of the team
- Partnering with data science, product engineering, and infrastructure teams to shape the data and ML strategy and drive adoption of ML solutions across products
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with backend experience using a JVM language, preferably Java
- 2+ years of building and deploying ML models in production
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures and object-oriented design
- Experience with cloud-hosted services, like AWS or GCP
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
- Experience working closely with data science and infrastructure teams
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Experience with Scala or Python
- Hands-on experience applying LLMs or other AI tooling to production use cases
- Exposure to ML platforms such as SageMaker, Vertex AI, or Kubeflow
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
Ready to apply?
Apply to Current
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Current is a leading consumer fintech platform transforming financial access for everyday Americans with over 6 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 Software Engineer to join our team in New York. This role has a salary range of $150,000 - $200,000. You will work alongside senior engineers to build and improve backend services, contribute to system design discussions, and deliver features that impact millions of members. The ideal candidate should have a background in backend development and experience working with cloud-hosted services. This person should be eager to grow, comfortable taking ownership of well-scoped projects, and motivated to work in a fast-paced environment.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
- Taking ownership of well-scoped features and delivering them from implementation through production
- Building and maintaining backend services within a distributed microservices architecture
- Contributing to data-intensive applications and gaining exposure to cutting-edge techniques in:
- Real-time transaction decisioning
- Stream-processing
- Machine learning
- Participating in code reviews and contributing to a culture of engineering quality
- Contributing to engineering best practices including testing, monitoring, and documentation
- Collaborating with product data and business stakeholders to ship features that directly impact Current’s members
ABOUT YOU:
- 2+ years of software engineering experience, with backend experience using a JVM language, preferably Java
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented design principles
- Experience with RDBMS or NoSQL databases
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- Experience with cloud-hosted services, like AWS or GCP is a plus
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
Ready to apply?
Apply to Current