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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