Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote-first (Domestic USA)
• Job Type: Not specified
• Salary: $160,000 - $170,000 (Base salary range - excludes commission/bonus/equity/benefits)

Branch is on a mission to empower workers with financial freedom. We help companies accelerate payments and provide working Americans with accessible, free financial services. We’re committed to building and delivering more inclusive, transparent, and frictionless financial products. Our goal of empowerment extends to our own employees, too. Have a great idea? Share it today and it might just get implemented tomorrow. As a member of our team, your voice and creativity matter—and they can directly impact our products, company, and culture.

Responsibilities

• Develop core components for our product suite.
• Measure and optimize the performance, scalability, and uptime of backend services.
• Demonstrate and promote a culture of engineering excellence.
• Conduct design and code reviews and push the bar for engineering rigor and standards.
• Collaborate with product management, customer success, and customer support to deliver the best experience for our users.
• Focus on consistent, cohesive REST APIs and domain driven service design to facilitate and orchestrate service contracts.

Requirements

• Attention to detail and passion for doing great work.
• 5+ years of experience in building clean, well architected, distributed, and scalable software.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, with deep knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Strong command of Java and Java-based microservices with Spring Boot.
• Experience designing and supporting customer-facing RESTful APIs.
• Design and implementation of relational database schemas running on PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, or equivalent.
• Fluent with unit/integration testing concepts and tools including JUnit / Mockito, or equivalent.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, git-flow, SonarQube for CI/CD a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base Compensation: $160,000 - $170,000 (Base salary range - excludes commission/bonus/equity/benefits)
• Benefits:
  • Branch-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Equity
  • 401k
  • Flexible time off
  • Paid company holidays
  • Paid parental leave (eligible after 6 months of employment)

Company Information

Branch is a remote-first company with employees located throughout the USA. We are committed to building and delivering more inclusive, transparent, and frictionless financial products. We value diversity of opinions and working styles, and believe in innovation, initiative, and winning together.