Senior Software Engineer, Cross River
Data Platform
$150-180k
Banking and fintech services
Open for applications
Banking and fintech services
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$150-180k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable clients to deliver responsible financial solutions that empower consumers anytime, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- You thrive in complex data environments and love building secure front ends with well-architected back ends, and you have a passion for strong software development practices and cloud computing
- 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering, with a strong focus in and around web development, API development, and cloud infrastructure
- Proven experience with AWS cloud environments (Lake Formation, Glue, ECR, ECS, EMR, IAM, S3, Cloud Watch, and others)
- Strong experience using Git for version control and review processes
- Strong web development skills
- Strong back end / API development skills
- Strong background in Infrastructure as Code
- Very strong problem-solving skills and an enthusiasm for delivering working, performant, and operationally-stable solutions
Desirable
- Experience in all pieces of the stack, from APIs to client-side Web Development to Infrastructure as code
- Strong usage of React
- Strong background in Python
- Strong usage of Terraform for Infrastructure as Code
- Experience working with containers as part of your DevX
- Agile experience in either a Scrum or Kanban setting
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a key player in engineering and maintaining Cross River’s Data Platform
- The Data Platform team engineers and operates the AWS-based platform itself, as well as the tools and applications through which our colleagues accomplish their platform-related activities
- You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop, deploy, and maintain software in support of the platform ecosystem, with a focus on web applications and APIs that will put powerful facets of the overall platform behind a web UI, streamlining some common interactions with the platform
- Your team’s work will allow key stakeholders to focus on the core of their data engineering, analysis, and data science needs, freeing them from underlying details that they needn’t be burdened with
- This is important work that will help the company take another leap forward in its offerings to fintechs around the country
- You'll design, develop, and maintain software in support of Cross River’s Data Platform
- Act as a thoughtful and considerate data steward, with a mind for strong data security
- Work on a team to engineer and operate a React-based Web UI that provides straightforward features to data stakeholders throughout the company
- Work on a team to engineer and operate a Python back-end that houses APIs and integrates with other systems
- Interact with AWS services and technologies including Lake Formation, Glue, Iceberg, Hive, Managed Airflow, ECS, and Athena
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in the Data Platform, the UI, or individual data pipelines
- Implement and advise on infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
- Collaborate with teams made up of Software Engineers, Cloud Infrastructure Engineers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and various business personnel to ensure business, security, and operational needs are met
- Manage code and versioning effectively using Git
- Participate in architectural discussions on pipeline and platform-level feature designs
- Ensure best practices around development and documentation
Our take
Cross River is a fintech and banking company that builds scalable embedded payments, cards, lending, and crypto solutions for businesses and individuals. Now a unicorn company with a valuation exceeding $1 billion, Cross River was founded in 2008 as a way to combine the innovations of financial technology with the existing world of banking.
Cross River has partnered with rising fintech businesses such as Ibanera, helping the Florida-based company build an all-in-one cross-border payments service. The company’s bigger picture approach has allowed it to develop several arms in the lending, compliance, and capital market sectors, amongst others, leading to a corporate flexibility that is crucial in the rapidly-evolving market.
Cross River was named as one of several companies under investigation for facilitating PPP fraud in the US as of December 2022. It has also come under intense scrutiny from the FDIC for allegations of unsafe banking practices in relation to its lending activities, with a consent order issued in March 2023. In the wake of the FTX and Silicon Valley Bank collapses the regulatory environment is getting tougher and Cross River clearly needs to ensure its processes and activities are compliant with the law if it is going to return to its previous position of growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2022
$620m
LATE VC
Apr 2020
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $848m
Company benefits
- Retirement planning
- Employee development fund
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities
- Volunteer opportunities
- Charitable donation matching
- Monthly happy hours
- Free haircuts in our salon located at HQ
- Complimentary dry cleaning at HQ
- Valet parking at HQ
- Shuttle service to/from NYC
- Gym located at HQ
- River Cafe at HQ
Company HQ
Fort Lee, NJ
Leadership
Gilles Gade
(CEO & Chariman)Previously CFO at First Meridian Mortgage, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Chela Technology Partners, Associate Director at Barclays Capital and Investment Banking Associate at Bear Stearns & Company.
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