Senior Back-End Engineer

Cross River provides API-driven banking infrastructure enabling embedded financial services including payments, lending, card programs, and cryptocurrency solutions.

2115 Linwood Avenue, Fort Lee, NJ 07024, United States
About Cross River Bank

Cross River operates a proprietary real-time banking core platform that delivers embedded financial services to fintech and technology companies. The platform provides payment rails including ACH, wires, RTP, and FedNow, card issuing and processing capabilities, digital lending infrastructure, and cryptocurrency banking services. Cross River enables partners to access banking functionality through API integrations while maintaining federal regulatory compliance.

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About the Role

You will design, build, test, and deploy backend systems for high-scale financial applications. You will lead architecture reviews, write and review well-tested code, improve CI/CD and observability, troubleshoot production issues, document systems, and participate in a Tier 2/3 on-call rotation.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software development experience
  • Experience with an OOP language such as Python or C#
  • Experience with cloud-native environments, Docker, and Kubernetes
  • Knowledge of scalable architecture, distributed systems, and performance optimization
  • Understanding of testing strategies, code quality, and security best practices
  • Fluency in English and Hebrew
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, test, and deploy backend systems for high-scale financial applications
  • Lead architecture reviews and drive technology decisions
  • Write well-tested code and review peers’ work
  • Collaborate with Product, DevOps, and Security teams
  • Improve CI/CD, observability, and cloud automation
  • Debug production issues and ensure system reliability and uptime
  • Contribute to internal documentation and onboarding
  • Participate in a Tier 2/3 on-call rotation

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid model with three office days per week
  • ₪1,000 net monthly wellness benefit
  • Full Keren Hishtalmut
  • Private health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Donation matching
  • Volunteering days
  • Team outings
  • Mentorship programs