Senior Software Engineer, Platform (Money Movement)

In this Senior Software Engineer role at Branch, you will be responsible for developing core components for our FinTech products. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Java and microservices, with a focus on designing and optimizing scalable backend services and RESTful APIs. This position requires a solid foundation in computer science and a passion for upholding high engineering standards through code reviews and collaborative teamwork. This role will be part of our Money team, which builds and maintains the internal services that power money movement across the Branch platform. This team creates reliable, consistent interfaces used by the rest of our systems to initiate and manage financial transactions. With millions of transactions processed daily, reliability, accuracy, and idempotency are critical. You’ll play a key role in ensuring that our platform moves money securely, consistently, and at scale. Responsibilities include measuring and optimizing the performance, scalability, and uptime of backend services; demonstrating and promoting a culture of engineering excellence; conducting design and code reviews and pushing the bar for engineering rigor and standards; and collaborating with product management, customer success, and customer support to deliver the best experience for our users. Focus will be on consistent, cohesive REST APIs and domain driven service design to facilitate and orchestrate service contracts.