Current
Senior Software Engineer, Applied ML
New York, NY · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$200k-$250kDetected 21 days ago
PythonJavaScalaBackend DevelopmentData StructuresAlgorithmsNoSQLMongoDBBigQueryAWSGCPKubernetesMachine LearningData EngineeringData ScienceLLMsMLOpsA/B TestingProduct StrategyPerformance ManagementCommunicationProblem SolvingMentoring
About the role
- We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team and apply ML/AI techniques to solve business problems at scale.
- The ideal candidate is a strong backend engineer with hands-on ML experience who thrives on turning business problems into production ML solutions.
- This role has a salary range of $200,000 - $250,000.
Responsibilities
- Owning end-to-end delivery of ML-powered initiatives from problem discovery through system design to production launch
- Building and evolving systems across the backend and ML stack, from microservices and data pipelines to feature engineering and model tooling
- Partnering with data science, product engineering, and infrastructure teams to shape the data and ML strategy and drive adoption of ML solutions across products
- 2+ years of building and deploying ML models in production
- Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures and object-oriented design
- Team building activities
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with backend experience using a JVM language, preferably Java
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience with cloud-hosted services, like AWS or GCP
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
- Experience working closely with data science and infrastructure teams
- Experience with Scala or Python
- Hands-on experience applying LLMs or other AI tooling to production use cases
Skills
- Current is a leading consumer fintech platform transforming financial access for everyday Americans with over 6 million members.
- Our backend services are written in Java and our data pipelines are built in Scala.
Compensation
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Meaningful equity in the form of stock options
- Discretionary performance bonus program
- Medical, Dental and Vision premiums covered at 100% for you and your dependents
- Flexible time off and paid holidays
- Generous parental leave policy
- Commuter benefits
- Fitness benefits
- Healthcare and Dependent care FSA benefit
- Employee Assistance Programs focused on mental health
- Healthcare advocacy program for all employees
- Access to mental health apps
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