Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Prosper is America’s first marketplace lending platform and has facilitated over $8 billion in loans through the platform. Since its launch in 2006 as the first marketplace lender in the US, Prosper Marketplace has evolved into a personal finance company that offers products and services that go beyond access to personal loans to help people get on top of their finances.

Prosper is seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our backend engineering team. As a member of this team, you will be implementing scalable, highly available, and secure Restful API used by our website, native apps, and partners. The ideal candidate is passionate about delivering cutting-edge, world-class solutions to solve business problems through development of high quality code. We utilize a progressive, test-driven, Agile development methodology that places a high premium on communication, good design and clean implementation. Above all other factors, we are looking for smart, driven candidates who want to be part of a culture of innovation and creativity as we develop and define the peer-to-peer lending marketplace!

* Work closely with a talented team of engineers * Meet scalability, availability, security, and performance goals * Rapidly build and evolve major features in collaboration with product managers * Strong development experience with developing Java RESTful services * Previous start-up experience is a must * Experience in Agile/Scrum environment * Deep understanding of OO patterns and principles

* BS in EE/CS with 5+ years of experience * MS in EE/CS or other applicable discipline with 3+ years of experience * Solid experience with JAVA, J2EE technologies, and Spring Framework * Experience with JMS, JMX, JDBC, J2EE Security, SQL, Jenkins, Hudson, log4j, Junit