Backend Software Engineer at Branch International
Branch is a for-profit socially conscious company based in San Francisco and Nairobi. We use technology to dramatically reduce the cost of delivering financial services in emerging markets. Our first product is credit.
Branch is like a bank in your pocket, there for you at all times.
About the Role
- As a Backend Engineer, you will work closely with our global engineering team (distributed across three continents) to strengthen the capabilities of our existing product and build out new products for Branch.
Location: Remote
Job Type: Full-time
What you’ll do
- Build out backend functionality for existing and new product lines such as Credit, Wallet, Bill Pay, and others.
- Integrate with various third-party systems, including payment systems, identity providers, and messaging platforms.
- Scale our backend services and pipelines to ever-growing levels of traffic and complexity.
- Help build flexible and easy-to-use tools used by our operations teams to handle customer inquiries and other business processes.
Minimum Requirements
- You have strong experience (4+ years) in building backend software for web-based or mobile products.
- You are an excellent collaborator and communicator. You listen to others and seek to understand, but aren’t afraid to speak your mind and debate respectfully when you disagree.
- You are excited by the prospect of working in a distributed team and company with teammates from all over the world.
Additional Plus
- You have a solid foundation in computer science fundamentals, distributed systems, data storage, and agile development methodologies.
- You are pragmatic and combine a strong understanding of technology and product needs to find the best solution for a problem.
- You are highly entrepreneurial and thrive in taking ownership of your own impact. You proactively identify problems and propose solutions.
Perks of the Job
- Work in a mission-driven, global, fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment.
- Competitive salary and equity package.
- A collaborative and flat company culture
- Remote first, with the option to work in-person occasionally.
- Fully paid life and health insurance benefit with Axa Mansard (Platinum plan).
- Work-life balance is not a myth, we offer a generous paid leave policy comprising; 28 days annual leave, 30 days sick leave, bereavement leave.
- Fully paid parental leave – 6 months maternity and 3 months paternity leave.
- Pension Benefit
- Monthly WFH stipend alongside a one time home office set-up budget.
- We believe learning should never stop and so we provide a $500 stipend annually towards learning and development irrespective of role, title or tenure.
- Discretionary trips to our offices across the globe, with global travel medical insurance.
- Team meals and social events (Hybrid for now)
- Flexible working hours.
- Opportunity to work and interact with a global team.