Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Branch is on a mission to empower workers with financial freedom by helping companies accelerate payments and providing accessible financial services. The Staff Software Engineer will be a senior technical leader responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining core components on the Payouts team, driving engineering excellence, and mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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