Senior Software Engineer, Current
$170-250k
Plus stock options & discretionary performance bonus program
Online banking & financial services
Be an early applicant
Online banking & financial services
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-250k
Plus stock options & discretionary performance bonus program
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build the future of banking.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team in New York
- You will work to lead key business initiatives, improve existing architecture and services, and design large-scale data-intensive applications
- 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
Our take
Current is a neobank offering digital banking services, with a focus on younger generations and paycheck-to-paycheck customers. It offers a swathe of innovative services including on-demand pay and overdraft protection to people underserved by traditional institutions.
Younger customers are expected in the coming years to pivot from legacy institutions to the higher functionality and lower costs of consumer-first neobanks like Current. By netting an average customer age of 27, Current is establishing itself as a pack leader among rival but less well-funded neobanks like Step or Till.
It is also successfully competing with legacy institutions by exploiting the relatively adaptive nature of neobanking. Current has previously offered customers advanced access to stimulus checks, and is seeking to expand into crypto. The company continues to raise funding which supports its continued growth and an accelerated path to profitability.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2026
$80m
SERIES E
Apr 2021
$220m
SERIES D
Total funding: $472.6m
Company benefits
- Company equity
- Flexible vacation policy
- Commuter benefits
- Discretionary bonus program
- Medical, Dental & Vision
Company HQ
Little Italy, New York, NY
Leadership
Stuart Sopp
(Founder & CEO)Worked as a Trader for BNY Mellon and Deutsche Bank for a combined 9 years before serving as Head of Trading at Citi and Morgan Stanley. Left this role after 5 years to found Current in June 2015, working as CEO ever since.
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