Amount provides a unified digital origination and decisioning platform that helps financial institutions meet the moment. Designed to scale with banks and credit unions at any stage of their digital journey, Amount delivers a seamless, digital-first experience—streamlining everything from loan origination to deposit account opening. With built-in fraud orchestration and risk management, Amount enables financial institutions to control risk across any product while optimizing performance and enhancing security. Our flexible, modular platform is backed by enterprise-grade infrastructure and compliance, allowing institutions to launch new offerings in months, not years. Amount’s clients include financial institutions collectively managing over $3.1T in assets and serving more than 50 million U.S. consumers. Learn more at www.amount.com.
Inclusion, diversity, and belonging are core to Amount's values, and we believe they are more than words, they are actions. We support our commitment to these ideas by empowering intrepid engagement and learning, increasing diverse representation, and fostering a culture where everyone can bring their full self to work without regard to differences. We look for people who embrace this culture.
A DAY IN THE LIFE:
As a Back-End Software Engineer, you’ll be at the core of building and maintaining scalable, high-performance services that power our financial technology platform. Your focus will be on designing and implementing robust back-end systems, optimizing performance, and ensuring the reliability of our distributed services. Working closely with a team of 5-10 engineers across software development and quality engineering, you will contribute to our microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and cloud-native infrastructure.
You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and enhance our platform’s capabilities, ensuring our systems are secure, scalable, and built for the future of financial technology.
Similar job titles: Senior Back-End Engineer, Software Engineer, Platform Engineer
Base Salary: $120,000 - $160,000 annually
Bonus & Equity: Amount employees are eligible for annual performance bonuses and equity grants as part of our commitment to shared success!
Benefits & Perks: Check them out HERE!
WHAT WE’LL TRUST YOU TO DELIVER:
- Develop and optimize scalable back-end services using Java, Spring Boot, and Micronaut
- Design, implement, and maintain microservices in a Kubernetes-based environment
- Work with event-driven architectures using Temporal and ActiveMQ for asynchronous workflows
- Build and optimize RESTful APIs and integrations with front-end services and third-party providers
- Enhance data processing and storage solutions using PostgreSQL and Redis
- Ensure performance, security, and scalability by proactively identifying areas for improvement
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, ensuring best practices in CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Git
- Participate in code reviews and mentor junior engineers to elevate the team’s technical capabilities
- Collaborate with DevOps and SRE teams to enhance our AWS cloud-based infrastructure
- Stay ahead of emerging technologies and contribute to our technical roadmap
WHAT YOU LIKELY BRING TO THE TABLE:
- 8+ years in back-end software development
- Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and Micronaut for back-end services
- Expertise working in a SaaS or FinTech environment
- Experience with event-driven architecture, using Temporal, ActiveMQ, or similar technologies
- Deep understanding of microservices architecture and best practices for distributed systems
- Experience with PostgreSQL and Redis for high-performance data storage and caching
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud infrastructure (AWS)
- Experience in CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Git
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on scalability, performance, and security
- Ability to work in agile development environments and collaborate cross-functionally
TOOLS YOU WILL OR MIGHT WORK WITH:
ReactJs, Java, Springboot, Micronaut, Temporal, ActiveMQ, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, Jenkins, Git
Social Media: LinkedIn, Builtin, Twitter, Amount Blog
Tech Stack: Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, Lattice, G Suite, Atlassian, AWS, Python, Java, Ruby, GO, node.js, Temporal, Scala, Apache NiFi, Talend, Informatica, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Pandas, Looker, Argo, Airflow Luigi, Kubernetes, C#, JavaScript (for advanced concepts), ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core, Microsoft SQL Server, Entity Framework (ORM for database interaction)
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What We Do
Amount provides a unified digital origination and decisioning platform that helps financial institutions meet the moment. Designed to scale with banks and credit unions at any stage of their digital journey, Amount delivers a seamless, digital-first experience—streamlining everything from loan origination to deposit account opening. With built-in fraud orchestration and risk management, Amount enables financial institutions to control risk across any product while optimizing performance and enhancing security. Our flexible, modular platform is backed by enterprise-grade infrastructure and compliance, allowing institutions to launch new offerings in months, not years. Amount’s clients include financial institutions collectively managing over $3.1T in assets and serving more than 50 million U.S. consumers. Learn more at www.amount.com.
Why Work With Us
Culture matters here: from Demo Days and Current Events Talks to our Employee Resource Groups and community involvement, we pride ourselves on the workplace environment we’ve created.
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