Senior Software Engineer

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 Staff Software Engineer, you’ll be at the core of building and optimizing scalable back-end services that power our fintech platform. Your day will involve designing and implementing robust systems using Java and Spring Boot, integrating distributed services, and ensuring high availability, performance, and security.

You’ll work closely with engineers, product managers, and QA to deliver reliable, well-tested software. You’ll tackle complex technical problems across microservices, event-driven systems, and cloud infrastructure, while also contributing hands-on code and technical designs that shape our platform’s future.

Team: Lead and collaborate with a group of 5+ engineers

Similar job titles: Engineering Team Lead, Tech Lead, Senior Back-End Engineer

Salary: $150,000 – $170,000

Bonus: Amount employees are eligible for annual performance bonuses as part of our commitment to shared success!

Benefits & Perks: Check them out HERE!

WHAT WE’LL TRUST YOU TO DELIVER:

• Back-End Development: Design, implement, and maintain scalable services and RESTful APIs using Java, Spring Boot, and Micronaut.
• System Architecture: Build and evolve microservices within Kubernetes, ensuring resiliency, performance, and maintainability.
• Event-Driven Systems: Work with asynchronous workflows using Temporal, ActiveMQ, or similar technologies.
• Data & Storage: Develop and optimize data solutions with PostgreSQL and Redis.
• Code Quality: Write clean, efficient, and testable code; participate in code reviews to raise technical standards.
• Collaboration: Partner with QA, DevOps, and SRE to ensure secure, scalable deployments on AWS.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive performance tuning, identify technical debt, and contribute to our long-term technical roadmap.
• Innovation: Explore new tools and practices to improve developer productivity and product capabilities.

WHAT YOU LIKELY BRING TO THE TABLE: 

• 8+ years of back-end software development experience, ideally in SaaS or FinTech.
• Strong Java, Spring Boot, and Micronaut expertise, with a deep understanding of RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Experience with event-driven architectures (Temporal, ActiveMQ, or Kafka).
• Strong background in distributed systems, scalability, and performance optimization.
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, and cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git) and modern software engineering practices.
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally in an agile environment and communicate complex ideas clearly.

TOOLS YOU WILL OR MIGHT WORK WITH

Java, Spring Boot, Micronaut, Temporal, ActiveMQ, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, Jenkins, Git, ReactJS

ABOUT AMOUNT (TL;DR)

Founded: 2020

Employees: 150+

Locations: Chicago (HQ) and US Remote

Funding: Amount has raised $281M in total equity capital since inception, including most recently at a valuation of $1B. Investors include WestCap, Hanaco Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Invus Opportunities, Mastercard, and PSCU

Press: Amount Blog - Equity Raise, Business Wire, PR Newswire - Comerica, PYMNTS - PSCU, A Year in Review - Amount’s Blog, Builtin, The Financial Brand

Key Customers: TD Bank, Velera, Guaranteed Rate, American Express, Citizens, Fifth Third Bank, Bank United, FIS, Associated Bank, Comerica 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)