Staff Software Engineer

Who We Are

Cross River is a highly profitable, fast-growing financial technology company powering the future of financial services. Our comprehensive suite of innovative and scalable embedded payments, cards, and lending products deliver financial services for millions of businesses and consumers around the globe. Cross River is backed by leading investors and serves the world’s most essential fintech and technology companies. Together with its partners, Cross River is reshaping global finance and financial inclusion.

We are on a mission to build the infrastructure that propels access, inclusion, and the democratization of financial services. While our company has tripled in size over the last three years, our strong sense of purpose led Cross River to be named to American Banker’s list of Best Places to Work in Fintech for the last 6 years. The reason for this success is simple – our nimble and collaborative culture lives in every member of our growing team. Together we are at the forefront of technology and innovation, and we invite passionate, collaborative, and motivated high performers to join our expanding team.

What We’re Looking For

Cross River’s Software Engineering group handles the core software responsibilities at Cross River, and as a Senior Software Engineer, you play a key role. You have a growth mindset: embracing ambiguity and seeking opportunities to challenge yourself and continuously grow your skills. This is a challenging role, so we expect you to have significant experience leading and developing complex and distributed engineering systems. We are looking for an individual contributor that enjoys mentoring teammates and working closely with users.

You will

Develop features and improvements to the Cross River products in a secure, well-tested, and performant way

Assess, design, and build solutions to address the product use cases and arrive at actionable recommendations. Lead the implementation of these solutions and train the rest of the organization to leverage them.

Work cross-functionally with business and product partners to make informed decisions about your business unit’s roadmap. Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment

Plan, implement, and automate the cloud infrastructure and development cycle for the product(s) you are working on.

Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards and provide thoughtful pull request reviews, up-skilling, and mentorship to peers

Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Take ownership of larger projects, from identifying and formalizing the problem to devising a solution and leading its implementation.

Participate in Tier 2 or Tier 3 weekday and weekend and occasional night on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues

Document the design, operation, and troubleshooting procedures of the team via build guides and runbooks

Mentor peers and more senior counterparts in your areas of expertise. Be a force multiplier for any project upon which you are deployed, making the entire engineering organization better

Work From The Jerusalem Office

Flexible hybrid work mode of 3 days a week in office

Join us in Jerusalem’s high-tech park in Har Hotzvim, where fresh air and green landscapes surround our Cross River offices, designed for optimal comfort and productivity. Enjoy thoughtfully designed meeting rooms, cozy lounge areas, and a fully equipped kitchen.

With our flexible hybrid model, including three days a week in the office, you can balance work and personal life with ease.

We’re committed to your professional growth, offering continuous learning opportunities, mentorship programs, and a dynamic environment that fosters innovation and career advancement.

Become part of a team that values your contributions and supports your well-being.

Requirements

• 3 times a week in office - Har Hotzvim - Jerusalem
• Proficient in Hebrew and English both written and verbal, sufficient for achieving consensus and success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
• 8-10 years industry experience
• Professional experience with containerization or similar technologies in large production environments
• Significant experience with object-oriented programming languages in a production environment at scale.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility
• You are comfortable working in a cross-functional organization
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values
  
  

• Experience managing infrastructure in a Cloud-native environment
• Experience building high-volume and high-throughput distributed systems for product-minded organizations
• Experience in fintech or other complex financial infrastructure companies
• Experience working in a global, distributed, or otherwise multi-cultural team
• Experience scaling a successful SaaS product
• Computer science education or equivalent experience