Split is dedicated to empowering the world's product decisions, facilitating engineering and product teams to release features rapidly and securely. As a Backend Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in building our CORE platform. This includes leading feature development for Split’s backend stack, designing and implementing APIs, and optimizing code for scalability, speed, and stability. Key technologies in our stack include Java, GoLang, MongoDB, Kafka, Redis, among others. This position will be a hybrid role with 2 days per week in the Redwood City, CA office. 

We believe in learning and development. We encourage you to apply even if you are uncertain about a few requirements.

We Value the Journey: Your Days at Split

We make the most of every day acting with urgency and determination. 

• Collaborate with a geographically distributed team of software engineers, product managers, and designers to develop services enabling swift and secure feature releases for customers.
• Actively contribute to evolving our product by suggesting ideas and solutions to enhance functionality and user experience, and implementing them effectively.
• Evaluate new technologies and methodologies to enhance our codebase and conventions.
• Innovate ways to optimize service performance.
• Take ownership of service operations in production, including participating in on-call rotations.
• Conduct regular code reviews, pair programming sessions, and collaborative design workshops.
• Contribute to product reviews and team meetings, offering technical expertise to scope, estimate, and prioritize work.

We Believe in Bold: About You

Experimentation is core to our culture – let’s iterate til’ we win. 

• Over 5 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficient in written and verbal communication.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Team player mindset.
• Deep understanding of data structures and computer science fundamentals.
• Possess a growth mindset with a keen interest in career development.
• Prioritize clean and modular code and demonstrate a commitment to adopting software development best practices for efficient teamwork and continuous delivery.