Senior Backend Java Developer

ABOUT SPIRAL 

Imagine a world where every financial transaction you make positively impacts your life, your community, and the world.

Headquartered in New York City, Spiral is the award-winning personalized banking platform that enables banks and credit unions to grow deposits and attract new account holders through financial wellness and community impact. With Spiral, financial institutions can positively impact the lives of their account holders and their communities through any online bank account, debit card, or credit card. Spiral makes it simple for financial institutions to drive positive change and empower millions of people to build better lives and positively impact their communities.

Can you imagine what it would be like if everyone had the opportunity to save for their dreams, reduce their debt, and make an impact every day? Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could help many communities and local nonprofits get more donations? Our solution enables financial institutions to amplify their community impact and digital engagement, increase spending on their debit and credit cards, create greater customer loyalty, and attract new audiences. We’re building the platform to power the next generation of financial services for more than 9,000 financial institutions across the U.S. 🚀

We are a fully-remote company. Our culture is purpose-driven, extremely collaborative, supports a healthy work-life balance with generous time off, and promotes personal growth and development.

The company is led by a serial fintech entrepreneur and a seasoned leadership team and has raised $42M in total funding.

SUMMARY

As a Backend Engineer at Spiral, you will join us in the early stages to envision and build our innovative banking technology solution and products from the ground up. You will cover all primary development activity across all technology functions to ensure we deliver high-quality code for our applications, products, and services. You will work closely with our product team and frontend engineers to ensure system consistency for our customer needs and user experience.

Ideally, you have a successful track record of design, development, and implementation of software and can demonstrate technological expertise in integrating, launching, scaling, and maintaining new and existing products and solutions.

You have the ability to contribute to a team culture that inspires excellence in what we deliver, collaboration in how we deliver it, and the innovation that will enable us to help our customers with their financial services needs.

About You

• You are obsessed with excellence and consistently looking to improve
• You are obsessed with new technologies and best practices
• You put innovation and curiosity above hierarchy
• You are an owner who takes things from start to end
• You seek to understand the needs of your peers and team and adapt your style as necessary

Your experience

• 3+ years of experience with Java
• Experience working in a startup environment
• Extensive knowledge and experience with:
  • Java Spring Boot, JPA,
  • Hibernate, Databases (RDS is a plus)
  • Microservices, docker, k8s/Kubernetes (EKS is a plus)
  • Elasticsearch
• Strong analytical and debugging skills
• Building organized processes and structured formal documentation
• B.Sc. or higher in Computer Science or equivalent

What you'll do

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications.
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance.
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications.
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Gather and address technical and design requirements.
• Provide training and support to internal teams.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Liaise with developers, designers, and system administrators to identify new features.
• Follow emerging technologies.
• Work closely with Product, QA, Dev-Ops, Customer Success and management
• Your contribution will have a great impact on the company's business and be the enabler of the company's growth and scalability 

Some Of Your Benefits

• Fully paid (99%) PPO medical, dental, and vision plans for you, spouse/partner, and children
• HSA 
• Fully paid short-term + long-term disability
• Paid time off allowing 20 days of leave
• Two Floating Holidays
• Employer-provided Udemy courses
• 401(k) plan

Spiral is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.