Sr. Software Engineer, Backend
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Whether you are working from our San Francisco or Phoenix offices or joining us as a fully remote team memberFull-TimeSenior
Salary$173,000 - $205,000 a year, plus bonus and generous benefits.
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years (BS) or 6+ years (MS)
- Required Skills
- GraphQLGCPJavaKotlinSpring BootCI/CDRESTful APIsMicroservices
Requirements
- BS in EE/CS with 8+ years of experience or MS in EE/CS or other applicable disciplines with 6+ years of experience.
- Deep proficiency in Java, Kotlin, and the Spring Boot framework.
- Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and event-driven patterns (such as GCP Pub/Sub).
- Familiarity with cloud-native architectures (specifically GCP, Firestore, Spanner, and Cloud Functions).
- Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines.
- Disciplined approach to automated testing (unit, integration, and contract tests) and system observability.
- Active use of AI coding assistants (e.g., Cursor, Copilot).
- Proactive, high-accountability approach to project ownership.
- Ability to work in a cross-functional environment.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate within a cross-functional team that includes product, design, frontend engineering, and quality engineers to deliver seamless borrower experiences across web and mobile.
- Own projects end to end -- from technical design and architecture through launch, iteration, and measurement -- driving outcomes that move the business forward.
- Build and evolve our high-performance Java and Kotlin microservices, deploying scalable features across our modern Spring Boot stack.
- Decommission legacy systems (like .NET message brokers) and design modern event-driven architectures (like GCP Pub/Sub) that accelerate development across multiple product teams.
- Partner with frontend and platform engineering teams to integrate client applications with secure, performant REST and GraphQL APIs.
- Identify and drive improvements in system latency, database query optimization, testing coverage, and cloud infrastructure efficiency.
- Uphold high standards of code quality and user experience while iterating rapidly in a regulated environment.
- Leverage AI-powered tools (coding assistants, automated testing, code review) to amplify your productivity and help establish best practices for AI-assisted development across the team.
- Contribute to a strong, inclusive engineering culture by mentoring peers, championing best practices, and participating in thoughtful code reviews.
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