Back End Engineer

CommonBond is building the leading values-driven, customer-centric financial services company and is looking for people who want to help our company grow. Our mission starts by tackling the broken student lending market and changing the way people think about student loans. We accomplish this with lower interest rates for our borrowers, a state-of-the art technology platform, and high-touch customer service.

We are seeking a highly talented Back End Engineer with entrepreneurial instincts, a strong sense of product, and a desire to build something from the ground up. This person will have the opportunity to impact all levels of our technology development as well as the broader team as we grow.We prefer the candidate work alongside the team in our NYC HQ but we are open to remote applicants as well.

* Collaborate in designing, architecting, building, testing, and maintaining world-class web application and data management software on all layers of development * Work across product, marketing, legal, business development, and operations teams to build and improve our core products while designing and building out a technical infrastructure capable of supporting a rapidly expanding organization * Test site layouts to optimize conversion across different sources of traffic * Develop techniques and analytical procedures to test and monitor user engagement and marketing effect * Anticipate the user experience and contribute to entire product development process, including spec development and QA

* Strong theoretical background * 3-7 years of experience, preferably at a blue-chip software company and/or at a startup * Significant experience working in database design, front end development, and application-level business logic development * Deep exposure to Java or a similar enterprise-class language a plus * Experience with Java, Elasticsearch, Redis, SQL * Passionate about our mission to make students’ lives easier and disrupt finance in the process * Ability to work in a complex environment and prioritize among competing demands * Desire to collaborate with an extraordinary team and be part of true innovation