Backend Engineer III (Remote)

Want to help everyday people build wealth? Financial inequality is increasing and too many people are getting left behind. At Stash, we believe in the power of simplifying investing, making it easy and affordable for everyday Americans to build wealth and achieve their financial goals.

We’re one of the fastest growing fintechs in the U.S. and have had another record-breaking year. In 2021 we almost doubled our headcount and valuation. Our personal finance app makes investing easy and affordable; this year 6 million customers set aside more than $3 billion with Stash.

Prioritizing People is one of our core values and has been key to a healthy work-life balance and a great sense of fulfillment and inclusion. We employ a true people first - hybrid model. Live and work where you feel the most productive, whether that is in our home, in an office, or a combination of both. Anywhere in the US or UK.  

Let’s solve complex problems and tackle wealth inequality.

We look for people who will help raise the bar for our entire engineering organization in terms of tech prowess, passion for collaboration and desire to mentor and educate fellow team members. We look for strategic thinkers and creative problem solvers with a bias for execution and we’ll expect you to contribute code as well as product/feature ideas from the get-go.

Our User Identity and Verification (IDV) development team is looking for a Software Engineer with a passion for building reliable, scalable, and performant software to support the Stash mission. After four years of tremendous growth in the U.S., we’re expanding to the UK, and building a team that will create applications and services that improve the ways we help our customers Spend, Save, and Invest. As one of the first team members on the ground, you’ll partner with every department and have the flexibility to use your creative, problem-solving skills to improve the Stash process in near real-time.

What you'll do:

• Architect, design, and implement software applications and services that support the Stash experience, including rich user interfaces, robust backend services, and amazing CLI tools
• Partner with every department to come up with new features and applications
• Own the end to end delivery of software components from inception to production
• Talk directly to the end-users on a daily basis 
• Work in a cross-functional agile team to deliver working software incrementally
• Instrument, test, profile, and code review software
• Continuously deploy what you build to our cloud-based infrastructure

What we're looking for:

• An experienced engineer with a track record of turning ideas into reliable code that others find easy to understand and modify
• Experience building RESTful APIs or GraphQL services
• Creative problem solver with a passion for testing, debugging, and overall code quality
• Data-driven decision maker, willing to take risks, fail fast, and iterate quickly
• A keen understanding of testing best practices (TDD is a plus!)
• Familiarity with or interest in Kotlin, Java, Scala, Ruby or Go.

Gold Stars:

• Experience building distributed applications at scale
• Familiarity with or interest in other areas of our stack including TypeScript, React, Node.js, Ruby, Rails, Scala, Kotlin, Go, Postgres, SNS/SQS, Kafka, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS