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Amount provides a unified digital origination and decisioning platform that helps financial institutions meet the moment. Designed to scale with banks and credit unions at any stage of their digital journey, Amount delivers a seamless, digital-first experience—streamlining everything from loan origination to deposit account opening. With built-in fraud orchestration and risk management, Amount enables financial institutions to control risk across any product while optimizing performance and enhancing security. Our flexible, modular platform is backed by enterprise-grade infrastructure and compliance, allowing institutions to launch new offerings in months, not years. Amount’s clients include financial institutions collectively managing over $3.1T in assets and serving more than 50 million U.S. consumers. Learn more at www.amount.com.
Inclusion, diversity, and belonging are core to Amount's values, and we believe they are more than words, they are actions. We support our commitment to these ideas by empowering intrepid engagement and learning, increasing diverse representation, and fostering a culture where everyone can bring their full self to work without regard to differences. We look for people who embrace this culture.
A DAY IN THE LIFE:
As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll be at the core of building and optimizing scalable back-end services that power our fintech platform. Your day will involve designing and implementing robust systems using Java and Spring Boot, integrating distributed services, and ensuring high availability, performance, and security.
You’ll work closely with engineers, product managers, and QA to deliver reliable, well-tested software. You’ll tackle complex technical problems across microservices, event-driven systems, and cloud infrastructure, while also contributing hands-on code and technical designs that shape our platform’s future. You’ll also integrate AI-powered coding assistants into your workflow to speed up delivery, reduce defects, and explore creative solutions.
Team: Lead and collaborate with a group of 5+ engineers
Similar job titles: Engineering Team Lead, Tech Lead, Senior Back-End Engineer
Salary: $150,000 – $170,000
Bonus: Amount employees are eligible for annual performance bonuses as part of our commitment to shared success!
Benefits & Perks: Check them out HERE!
WHAT WE’LL TRUST YOU TO DELIVER:
- Back-End Development: Design, implement, and maintain scalable services and RESTful APIs using Java, Spring Boot, and Micronaut.
- System Architecture: Build and evolve microservices within Kubernetes, ensuring resiliency, performance, and maintainability.
- Event-Driven Systems: Work with asynchronous workflows using Temporal, ActiveMQ, or similar technologies.
- Data & Storage: Develop and optimize data solutions with PostgreSQL and Redis.
- Code Quality: Write clean, efficient, and testable code; participate in code reviews to raise technical standards.
- Collaboration: Partner with QA, DevOps, and SRE to ensure secure, scalable deployments on AWS.
- Continuous Improvement: Drive performance tuning, identify technical debt, and contribute to our long-term technical roadmap.
- Innovation: Explore and embed AI-driven developer productivity tools into the engineering lifecycle.
WHAT YOU LIKELY BRING TO THE TABLE:
- 8+ years of back-end software development experience, ideally in SaaS or FinTech.
- Strong Java, Spring Boot, and Micronaut expertise, with a deep understanding of RESTful APIs and microservices.
- Experience with event-driven architectures (Temporal, ActiveMQ, or Kafka).
- Hands-on use (or eagerness to adopt) AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, CodeWhisperer, ChatGPT, etc.) to optimize productivity.
- Strong background in distributed systems, scalability, and performance optimization.
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, and cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git) and modern software engineering practices.
- Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally in an agile environment and communicate complex ideas clearly.
TOOLS YOU WILL OR MIGHT WORK WITH
Java, Spring Boot, Micronaut, Temporal, ActiveMQ, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, Jenkins, Git, ReactJS
Social Media: LinkedIn, Builtin, Twitter, Amount Blog
Tech Stack: Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, Lattice, G Suite, Atlassian, AWS, Python, Java, Ruby, GO, node.js, Temporal, Scala, Apache NiFi, Talend, Informatica, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Pandas, Looker, Argo, Airflow Luigi, Kubernetes, C#, JavaScript (for advanced concepts), ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core, Microsoft SQL Server, Entity Framework (ORM for database interaction)
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