Artificial Intelligence * Blockchain

Be an Early Applicant Remote Hiring Remotely in US Senior level Remote Hiring Remotely in US Senior level Lead design, development, and maintenance of scalable backend services for Payouts. Drive architecture, ensure performance and reliability, mentor engineers, enforce engineering best practices, and collaborate with product and support teams to deliver customer-facing REST APIs. The summary above was generated by AI, The Staff Software Engineer will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining Branch's core components on our Payouts team. This senior technical leader will be responsible for driving engineering excellence, solidifying architectural direction, and mentoring other engineers. The Staff Software Engineer will work on complex problems, influence technical decisions across teams, and ensure our systems are scalable, reliable, and performant., * 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
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to other software engineers
• Drive architectural decisions and ensure alignment with long-term technology strategy
• Identify and address systemic technical challenges
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering their technical growth
• Contribute to the development of engineering best practices and standards
• Participate in strategic planning and roadmap development, Lead architecture and multi-year technical strategy for financial data pipelines and reporting. Design and deliver backend services in Go, ensure accuracy, timeliness, and auditability of financial data, and partner with Finance/Accounting/Tax to translate regulatory requirements into scalable systems. Mentor senior engineers and set architectural standards across Financial Engineering. Top Skills: APIsCloudDistributed SystemsGenerative AiGoGoMulti-Tenant ArchitecturesService-Oriented Architecture Coinbase

• Attention to detail and passion for doing great work
• 8+ 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 CI/CD a plus
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent program
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects and influence technical direction
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities
• Experience with payment rails and ACH are HIGHLY preferred, Must be currently authorized to work in the USA without sponsorship or transfer.

• 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
• Branch@Branch Same Day Pay Option

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, 218K-257K Annually Senior level 218K-257K Annually Senior level Artificial Intelligence * Blockchain * Fintech * Financial Services * Cryptocurrency * NFT * Web3 Lead long-term technical vision and roadmap for the Overseer platform to ensure correctness across Coinbase fund flows. Own architecture, design and delivery of real-time detection, invariant frameworks, and partner APIs. Drive cross-team alignment, set engineering standards, mentor engineers, lead P0 initiatives, and apply generative AI responsibly to scale automated guardrails and enforcement capabilities. Top Skills: APIsDistributed SystemsGenerative AiGoJavaPythonReal-Time Detection

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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.