Senior Backend Engineer (Remote) - Current Mobile｜Meet.jobs

What is Current Mobile

Our mission as a company is to enable budget-conscious consumers to earn additional passive income from their everyday habits. We have millions of monthly users and have achieved over 2,500% revenue growth in 2020. Our users earn millions of dollars a year in rewards by using our products.

Current Mobile Inc is a US-based company that builds mobile technology products for budget-conscious consumers. Our products let people around the world earn passive income while using their mobile phones for daily habits like music, games, news, shopping, browsing, charging, and even unlocking their devices. Our passionate team of innovation leaders relentlessly convert user attention and data into rewards.

Our flagship products, Current Rewards, and Mode Smartphone are hugely popular with millions of users around the world. It is our goal to provide a free Mode phone to every income-conscious consumer on the planet, enabling them to earn up to $100 each month while passively using their device. Our common purpose is to bring financial joy to the lives of our user base.

In 2018, Current Mobile became the first company to raise over $36M through an SEC-registered security token offering, to implement our royalty-paying token $CRNC across company product lines.

We are rapidly growing. As we embark on the next phase of our incredible expansion, we are looking for exceptional talent to help fuel the growth.

Why Current Mobile

• You have an opportunity to be one of the first people to join a team of high-caliber ambitious people who are out to challenge the status quo of content consumption.
• We’re a well-funded revenue-generating company, and have a runway for years to come.
• We are rapidly growing and as we embark on the next phase of our incredible expansion, we are looking for exceptional talent to help fuel the growth.
• We’re committed to bringing diverse industry experiences and perspectives together.
• The team is made up of alumni from Y-Combinator, Ivy League Universities, College Dropouts, Fortune 500, and everything in between.
• We have superior financiers and advisors and several top-tier institutional investors.
• Our leadership team has worked together on various projects over the last seven years which has greatly impacted their ability to evolve from past challenges and build efficient and effective processes.
• We care about building a disruptive product that empowers our users. We think big and set new precedents!

Our Revenue Team

The larger organization is split into cross-functional product teams. The Revenue team consists of 2 Android Engineers, 1 Backend Engineer, 1 QA Engineer and 1 Product Manager. We're focused on providing new ways for users to earn, optimizing our ad tech, and building tools to better-visualize our revenue data.

In the past 2 months, we have…

• increased revenue by a significant multiple into over 8 figures.
• decreased ad loading time by 85%.
• improved infrastructure to support a huge increase in growth (over 500,000 people earn through our products each day!)
• released features such as “Games”, where users get paid for playing games, and "Charge" where users get paid for charging their phone!
• released an internal tool to provide instant access to revenue data.

This work, combined with the hard work from our peers in the Engagement team, has led to over a 3x increase in user lifetime value! By the end of the year, we had hoped to have sustainably grown to over 400,000 DAU (which we already surpassed)!

We operate in 2-week sprints, release Android updates weekly, and control specific functionality through a powerful split testing and feature flagging system. Our Product Managers are committed to measuring and quantifying the impact of every change before we move on.

The team varies between working collaboratively and independently. We want everyone to feel encouraged to take a feature from idea through development and post-release all on their own. But, some problems are best solved together, in which case pair programming, whiteboarding sessions, and discussions are frequent.

Current Mobile has 15 engineers out of 32 people in total, distributed around the world (including Chicago, Mexico, California, Argentina, and Croatia). The Revenue team is based in Chicago, Hermosillo, Los Angeles, Croatia, Mexico City.

Technology

We rely heavily on the following technologies:

• Ruby on Rails for our main application.
• NodeJS for a single microservice.
• Postgres for most of our persistent data store.
• AWS for our infrastructure.
• AWS Lambda, Kinesis, SQS, and DynamoDB for a high-throughput event pipeline.
• Java and Kotlin for our Android app.

Senior Backend Engineer role and responsibilities

You’ll be joining the backend team, working on one (or more!) of the areas/projects mentioned above. The specific projects will vary each sprint. As a member of the backend team, you’ll find yourself...

• taking projects from planning through technical implementation, deployment, and post-deployment.
• writing high-quality, stable, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• switching between working independently and collaboratively to complete projects quickly.
• meet and work with the product team to understand the customer’s needs.

We are looking for a senior-level backend engineer to join the team. We offer a generous salary based on experience and location, stock options, and bonuses.

We'd love to talk with you if…

• the company and projects excite you!
• you’re excited to deliver high-quality features at a fast pace.
• you're passionate about automated testing and continuous delivery.
• you’re a clear, empathetic communicator.
• you have plenty of experience building robust and scalable products, including hands-on experience creating web applications with Rails.
• you're comfortable joining a team that is experiencing fast user base growth.
• you have experience building large-scale systems that store and process lots of data (a plus, but not required).
• you have some experience with technical leadership (a plus, but not required).

Interview Process

The process is normally a 30-minute initial interview, a 1-hour technical interview, and a 30-minute final-round exec/VP interview.

How we work

Current Mobile is committed to learning, exploring new ideas & alternatives, and is united by curiosity. We are results-driven, use OKRs to guide us on our decisions, and emphasize goal accomplishment.

We all share the same core values:

• Lead with Purpose - Leadership does not necessarily mean management. Everyone is a leader, no matter the role. Taking pride in your responsibilities, finding & executing solutions is key.

• Focus on the ‘Why’- The best solutions start with everyone understanding the problem and its impact. We’ve found that if someone understands the ‘why’, they will produce an innovative ‘what’ and ‘how’. If we cannot explain the ‘why’ clearly, we don’t understand the problem ourselves.

• Bring a Sense of Humor - Our work environment is a lighthearted & positive place where employees are united by humor and camaraderie; we believe laughter is a great way to uplift employee morale and form bonds with each other.

• Set New Precedents - We drive innovation and push boundaries for all company activities while understanding that anything worth doing will have roadblocks. We set a new standard of worth for people’s time, data, and attention while rewarding what most other companies take.

• Collaboration - We won’t thrive without recognizing others’ strengths. Listen and evolve together, helping and supporting each other for the sake of a collective goal.

We believe in the following workplace norms:

• Honor Commitments, Your Word Matters - Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant & Timely (S.M.A.R.T) Asks & Answers.

• Allow OKRs To Guide Us - Individual & Departmental OKRs will largely impact success at Current Mobile.

• Agree to Disagree & Commit -Voice concerns in a respectful & appropriate manner directly to your manager or the Executive Team.

• Assume Positive Intent - Always start from the idea that a person meant well or was doing their best, no matter what they say or do.

What we are offering

• **We are a remote-first company so this position is 100% remote from anywhere that can overlap with US CST / EST hours**
• Participation in the company's equity & token plan.
• We pay out individual bonuses every two months in accordance with our bi-monthly OKRs.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance with employer contribution.
• Work with highly curated high-caliber people.
• Celebrate employee personal milestones.
• Remote team-building activities every 6-8 weeks
• Virtual happy hours & virtual coffee buddies.
• Bonus.ly - we use bonus.ly as a way to recognize and reward employees for their hard work + commitment.
• Monthly virtual yoga + meditation classes.
• We follow the “12 PM to 1 PM CST Break” - no meetings during this time to encourage team members to take a break in their workday!