Fundrise

Fundrise

Senior Software Engineer

Washington, District of Columbia · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$153k-$183kDetected 93 days ago
JavaSpringDistributed SystemsSQLAWSCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • Who You Are You're motivated by solving real problems, not by chasing the newest framework or forcing a particular architecture.

Responsibilities

  • Experience making significant contributions to designing, building, and maintaining distributed systems to ensure scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance
  • Experience improving existing systems and workflows in operationally complex environments, not just building greenfield systems from scratch

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in Java, Spring, and Hibernate
  • 4+ years of experience building and maintaining production applications on AWS, including services such as EC2, ECS, CDK, S3, SQS, Lambda, and DynamoDB.
  • 3+ years of experience with SQL and relational databases, where transactions and throughput were critical to operations
  • Experience using AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini CLI in day-to-day development workflows
  • Demonstrated track record of effective communication and collaboration with business stakeholders
  • Ability to quickly absorb and understand large and complex new domains and workflows
  • success requires strong judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to turn nuanced operational and compliance requirements into effective software.

Nice to have

  • Fundrise has been recognized by CNBC's World's Top Fintech Companies (2024, 2025) and the Inc.
  • 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies for three consecutive years (2023-2025).

Compensation

  • $153k-$183k

Benefits

  • Benefits at Fundrise

Company info

  • Fundrise is a financial technology company on a mission to build a better financial system for the individual.
  • With more than 2 million users and over $3 billion in assets under management, we are the largest direct-to-investor alternative asset platform in the United States, making institutional-quality real estate, private credit, and venture capital investments accessible to anyone.
  • Through the software we build, we are democratizing the private investment industry.

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