Engineering Manager, Backend

Engineering Manager, Backend

Current is a leading consumer fintech platform transforming financial access for everyday Americans with over 5 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. Located 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.

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 Mongo

DB and Spanner for persistence, Pub/Sub for asynchron­ous event processing, Dataflow for data transformation paired with Big Query 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, infrastructure for machine learning and experimentation, real‑time fraud detection, identity protection and large‑scale transaction processing across multiple payment rails.

Location:

New York City, NY

Base salary range: $200,000 – $275,000. Compensation is determined based on experience, skill level and qualifications and is assessed during the interview process. Current offers a competitive total rewards package including base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits.

• Leadership responsibilities for an engineering team: responsibility for the people in that team and for the delivery of features and enhancements.
• Owning the end‑to‑end roadmap for key business initiatives from product discovery to system design to feature launch.
• Apply your knowledge and experience to solve real systems engineering problems.
• Use your managerial skills to scale a team and drive forward a complex roadmap.
• A strong culture of code and architecture review.
• Work on large‑scale data‑intensive applications with cutting‑edge techniques in:
  • Real‑time transaction decisioning
  • Stream‑processing
  • Machine learning
• Evolve the company standards for engineering excellence by improving architecture, testing and monitoring practices.
• Help Current’s users access new decentralized financial systems for wealth creation.

• Professional managerial experience leading a team of software engineers.
• Significant professional backend development experience.
• Production experience with a JVM language.
• Experience with cloud‑hosted services, like AWS or GCP.
• Proficiency in both RDBMS and No
  
  SQL databases.
• A good grasp of concurrency and multi‑threading.
• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent.

• 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.