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# SOFTWARE ENGINEER

- **Company:** Current Engineering Inc
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $170,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Big Data, Data Structures, Relational Databases, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Machine Learning, NoSQL, Object-Oriented Software Development, Software Engineering, Multithreading, Backend, Information Technology, Stream Processing
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-software-engineer-current-8720938

## About the Role

* 5+ years of software engineering experience, with backend experience using a JVM language, preferably Java
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
 * Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, object-oriented design, and multi-threaded programming
 * Experience with cloud-hosted services, like AWS or GCP
 * Proficiency in both RDBMS and NoSQL databases
 * Strong problem-solving and communication skills

## Description

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team in New York. This role has a salary range of $170,000 - $250,000. You will work to lead key business initiatives, improve existing architecture and services, and design large-scale data-intensive applications. The ideal candidate should have a background in backend development and experience working with cloud-hosted services. This person should also be a motivated self-starter who is able to feel at ease working in a fast-paced environment., * Owning the end-to-end delivery of key business initiatives from product discovery, to system design, and all the way to feature launch

 * Architecting and evolving core distributed services for reliability, scalability, and performance
 * Designing and delivering large-scale data-intensive applications with cutting edge techniques in:

 * Real-time transaction decisioning
 * Stream-processing
 * Machine learning

Evolving org-wide engineering standards for architecture, testing, and monitoring practices and documentation

Mentoring engineers through code and architecture reviews, raising the technical bar of the team

Partnering with product, data and business stakeholders to shape technical direction and product roadmap


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