Sr. Software Engineer, Backend
$175,000–$215,000 year
Hybrid · New York City, New York, United States
Job Summary
Senior Backend Engineer at Betterment contributing to Broker Dealer, building trading and money-movement technology, and scaling backend components. You will solve complex backend design and performance challenges, mentor and collaborate with other engineers, lead cross-team efforts to deliver on-time features, maintain high standards of quality, performance, and security, and partner with stakeholders to improve platform reliability. The role emphasizes hands-on system design, engineering leadership, and delivering robust backend solutions in a hybrid NYC office environment.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years professional experience in at least one object-oriented language
- Familiarity with writing Java code
- 5+ years professional experience with SQL and relational databases, including designing schemas and writing detailed SQL queries
- Strong command of fundamental algorithms and data structures
- Experience working in large-scale distributed systems
- Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining core backend software components
- Proven ability to lead and manage projects that span one or more teams, considering tradeoffs to ensuring on-time delivery while maintaining high standards of quality, performance and security
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