Senior Software Engineer - Platform (Earned Wage Access)

About us:

Branch is on a mission to empower workers with financial freedom. We do this by helping companies accelerate payments and providing 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.

We not only focus on attracting great talent from across the country but also on building teams that help that talent thrive. That means valuing a diversity of opinions and working styles while creating a shared belief in innovation initiative and winning together.

Come join our team as we develop new ways to improve the lives of working Americans.

About the role:

In this Senior Software Engineer role at Branch you will be responsible for developing core components for our FinTech products. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Java and microservices with a focus on designing and optimizing scalable backend services and RESTful APIs. This position requires a solid foundation in computer science and a passion for upholding high engineering standards through code reviews and collaborative teamwork.

This role will be part of our Earned Wage Access (EWA) team which builds and maintains systems that power real-time access to earned pay for workers. You’ll work on critical high-volume services that integrate with payroll systems manage complex financial transactions and ensure reliability and accuracy in the movement of funds. This position offers the opportunity to shape and scale one of Branch’s most impactful products.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• 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

Qualifications:

• 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 CICD a plus

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent program

Compensation:

The salary range for this role is $160-170k.

The salary range displayed reflects an average base salary range for the position across all the U.S. The base salary offered to an applicant could be higher or lower based on each applicant's specific skill set depth of experience relevant education or training etc.

Location:

This position is classified as REMOTE within the United States of America.

We are unable to hire candidates located outside of the domestic U.S.

Benefits:

• Market-leading medical dental and vision insurance

• Stock options

• Free Premium-Tier Origin Financial Wellness subscription

• Monthly home-office stipend

• 401k (TransAmerica)

• 12-weeks paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents

• Flexible time off + sick and safe time

• 11 paid company holidays

Working at Branch

A remote-first company with employees located throughout the U.S. Branch emphasizes transparency accountability and trust to create a collaborative environment where our product engineering marketing customer support customer success and sales teams can all thrive together.  Learn more about what we do in this video !

Our collaborative spirit has helped us become an award-winning FinTech company with Branch’s innovation and workplace recognized across industries. Branch has been honored by Inc. the Webby Awards Benzinga FinTech Awards FinTech Breakthrough Awards Top Workplaces USA Great Places to Work and EY Entrepreneur of the Year Heartland among others.

Learn more about our culture approach technology and people here: https://www.branchapp.com/about

Branch is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.

Must be currently authorized to work in the USA without sponsorship or transfer.

No third-parties please.

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