Staff Engineer, Backend
Staff Engineer, Backend
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05-07-2025
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Greenlight is the leading family fintech company on a mission to help parents raise financially smart kids. We proudly serve more than 6 million parents and kids with our award-winning banking app for families. With Greenlight parents can automate allowance manage chores set flexible spend controls and invest for their familys future. Kids and teens learn to earn save spend wisely and invest.
At Greenlight we believe every child should have the opportunity to become financially healthy and happy. Its no small task and thats why we leap out of bed every morning to come to work. Because creating a better brighter future for the next generation depends on it.
We are looking for a Staff Engineer to provide technical architecture design and development for backend micro services within our Platform Team. In this role you will serve as a tech lead and work with engineering managers senior engineers and cross-functional partners to plan design and implement the technical underpinnings of Greenlight money movement platform. In this role you will be part of a team working primarily with backend java and .
This role reports to an Senior Engineering Manager.
Technologies we use:
- Backend: Kotlin Java Go
- Frontend: React Redux Swift Kotlin
- REST gRPC graphQL
- AWS
- MySQL DynamoDB Redis
- Kubernetes Ambassador Helm Rancher
What you will be doing:
- Building supporting and operating your domain platform services for use within Greenlight product engineering
- Identifying scoping and leading large technical projects laying the groundwork for early-stage platform capability to iteratively evolve and scale
- Develop and execute against both short- and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities user experience and a sustainable technical foundation
- Collaborating with stakeholders across the organization including dependency engineering teams product design infrastructure and operations
- Building and supporting microservices in Java/Kotlin that support our core product
- Working with gRPC GraphQL and REST APIs
- Continuously evaluate and improve your code quality and the reliability and availability of your teams services through metrics monitoring testing
- Improve engineering tooling process and standards to enable faster more consistent more reliable and highly repeatable application delivery
- Teach and mentor junior members to become the next generation of leaders
What you should bring:
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- A strong technical background including 8 years of experience designing and engineering large-scale systems
- The ability to work on new services under fluid conditions seamlessly balancing tactical and strategic considerations
- Ability to thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
- Experience with languages on the JVM (Kotlin Java Scala etc.)
- Experience with large-scale performant applications using cloud architecture and services - AWS and Kubernetes highly preferred
- A collaborative positive inclusive and team-oriented attitude
- A desire to learn and master new technologies
Nice to have:
- Experience working on user billing payment or banking product at scale
- In-depth knowledge of transaction management and ledgering services and related concepts
- Experience with gRPC REST or GraphQL
Who we are:
It takes a special team to aim for a never-been-done-before mission like ours. Were looking for people who love working together because they know it makes us stronger people who look to others and ask How can I help and then How can we make this even better If youre ready to roll up your sleeves and help parents raise a financially smart generation apply to join our team.
Greenlight is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on age race color national origin gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation religion physical or mental disability medical condition (including pregnancy childbirth or a medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth) genetic information marital status veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law.
Greenlight is committed to an inclusive work environment and interview experience. If you require reasonable accommodations to participate in our hiring process please reach out toyour recruiter directly or email .
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