Backend Software Engineer

Summary

Join Branch, a global technology company revolutionizing financial access, as a backend engineer. You will collaborate with a global team to build and enhance features for credit, wallet, and bill pay products. Responsibilities include building backend functionality, integrating third-party systems, scaling services, and creating tools for operations teams. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of experience in backend software development for web or mobile products and is an excellent communicator and collaborator. Branch offers a competitive salary and equity, remote work options, comprehensive health and life insurance, generous paid leave, parental leave, pension benefits, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• You have strong experience (4+ years) in building backend software for web-based or mobile products
• You are an excellent collaborator and communicator. You listen to others and seek to understand, but aren’t afraid to speak your mind and debate respectfully when you disagree
• You are excited by the prospect of working in a distributed team and company with teammates from all over the world

Responsibilities

• Build out backend functionality for existing and new product lines such as Credit, Wallet, Bill Pay, and others
• Integrate with various third-party systems, including payment systems, identity providers, and messaging platforms
• Scale our backend services and pipelines to ever-growing levels of traffic and complexity
• Help build flexible and easy-to-use tools used by our operations teams to handle customer inquiries and other business processes

Preferred Qualifications

• You have a solid foundation in computer science fundamentals, distributed systems, data storage, and agile development methodologies
• You are pragmatic and combine a strong understanding of technology and product needs to find the best solution for a problem
• You are highly entrepreneurial and thrive in taking ownership of your own impact. You proactively identify problems and propose solutions

Benefits

• Work in a mission-driven, global, fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment
• Competitive salary and equity package
• A collaborative and flat company culture
• Remote first, with the option to work in-person occasionally
• Fully paid life and health insurance benefit with Axa Mansard
• Work-life balance is not a myth, we offer a generous paid leave policy comprising 28 days annual leave, 30 days sick leave, and bereavement leave
• Fully paid parental leave - 6 months maternity and 3 months paternity leave
• Pension Benefit
• A one-time home office set-up budget
• We believe learning should never stop, and so we provide a $500 stipend annually towards learning and development, irrespective of role, title or tenure
• Discretionary trips to our offices across the globe, with global travel medical insurance
• Team meals and social events (Hybrid for now)
• Flexible working hours
• Opportunity to work and interact with a global team