Senior Software Engineer - Platform

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.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Develop core components for our EWA product

• 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 base compensation range for this role is 160-170k.  The salary range displayed reflects an average base salary range for the position across all the US. The base salary offered to an applicant could be higher or lower based on each applicants specific skill set, depth of experience, relevant education or training, etc. The base salary range listed excludes commission/ bonus/ equity or benefits.

Benefits: 

• Remote-first work culture (domestic USA)

• Branch-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance 

• Equity

• 401k

• Flexible time off

• Paid company holidays

• Paid parental leave (eligible after 6 months of employment)

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.

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 3rd-parties, please.