Senior Software Engineer, Platform

About us: Branch is on a mission to empower workers with financial freedom. We do this by helping companies accelerate payments and providing working Americans with accessible, free financial services. We’re committed to building and delivering more inclusive, transparent, and frictionless financial products. Our goal of empowerment extends to our own employees, too. Have a great idea? Share it today and it might just get implemented tomorrow. As a member of our team, your voice and creativity matter—and they can directly impact our products, company, and culture.  We not only focus on attracting great talent from across the country, but also on building teams that help that talent thrive. That means valuing a diversity of opinions and working styles, while creating a shared belief in innovation, initiative, and winning together. Come join our team as we develop new ways to improve the lives of working Americans. About the role: 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 Integration team, which builds and maintains the systems that connect Branch’s platform to our network of external partners and data sources. The team is responsible for ingesting and processing thousands of files daily across multiple products, ensuring that our data pipelines are fast, reliable, and fault-tolerant. You’ll also work on adapting Branch’s services to integrate seamlessly with third-party APIs, enabling our products to operate effortlessly within a complex external ecosystem. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 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 Qualifications: Attention to detail and passion for doing great work 5+ years of experience in building clean, well architected, distributed, and scalable software Strong computer science fundamentals, with deep knowledge of dat