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Current · 1 day ago

Engineering Manager, Backend

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$200K/yr - $275K/yr

1+ years exp

Current is a leading consumer fintech platform transforming financial access for everyday Americans with over 5 million members. They are seeking a Backend Engineering Manager to lead the delivery of key business initiatives, improve existing architecture, and design large-scale data-intensive applications.

BankingFinanceFinancial ServicesFinTech

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Leadership responsibilities for an engineering team. Responsibility for the people in that team, as well as their delivery of features and enhancements

Owning the end-to-end roadmap for key business initiatives from product discovery, to system design, all the way to feature launch

Apply your knowledge and experience to solve real systems engineering problems

Use your managerial skills to scale a team and drive forward a complex roadmap

A strong culture of code and architecture review

Work on large-scale data-intensive applications with cutting edge techniques in:

Real-time transaction decisioning

Stream-processing

Machine learning

Evolving the company standards for engineering excellence by helping to improve architecture, testing, and monitoring practices

Helping Current’s users access new decentralized financial systems for wealth creation

Qualification

Backend developmentCloud-hosted servicesJVM languageRDBMS databasesNoSQL databasesConcurrencyMulti-threadingEngineering excellenceLeadershipTeam management

Required

Professional managerial experience leading a team of software engineers

Significant professional backend development experience

Production experience with a JVM language

Experience with cloud-hosted services, like AWS or GCP

Proficiency in both RDBMS and NoSQL databases

A good grasp of concurrency and multi-threading

Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent

Preferred

At least 1 year of management experience

Experience working with cloud-hosted services

Benefits

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity in the form of stock options

401(k) plan

Discretionary performance bonus program

Biannual performance reviews

Medical, Dental and Vision premiums covered at 100% for you and your dependents

Flexible time off and paid holidays

Generous parental leave policy

Commuter benefits

Fitness benefits

Healthcare and Dependent care FSA benefit

Employee Assistance Programs focused on mental health

Healthcare advocacy program for all employees

Access to mental health apps

Team building activities

Our modern Chelsea-based office with open floor plan, stocked kitchen, and catered lunches

Company

Current

Current is a leading consumer fintech banking platform transforming financial access for everyday Americans.

Founded in 2015

New York, New York, USA

51-200 employees

https://current.com

H1B Sponsorship

Current has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship

Represents job field similar to this job

Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (1)

2022 (1)

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Total Funding

$602.4M

Key Investors

Cross River BankAndreessen HorowitzTiger Global Management

2024-12-13Series Unknown· $200M

2024-12-13Debt Financing

2021-04-27Series D· $220M

Leadership Team

Stuart Sopp

CEO

Trevor Marshall

CTO

Recent News

digital-pulse.com.my

News: Mobile banking app Current raises $131M Series C, tops 2 million members

2025-12-15

World Forex Award

Digital bank Current sees ‘insane’ growth during pandemic as essential workers sign up for accounts

2025-12-15

paymentsdive.com

Current raises $20M in Series B funding to grow teen banking fintech

2025-12-15

Company data provided by crunchbase