Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Become a part of a compact, cross-disciplinary engineering team responsible for a product area from start to finish.

• Investigate various technical solutions via RFCs, proof-of-concepts, and experimental approaches.

• Develop software that is maintainable, observable, and scalable.

• Create capabilities for card issuance, Faster Payments, cross-border transactions, and term deposit accounts.

• Build reconciliation systems that handle millions of FPS transactions.

• Implement double-entry accounting for card expenditures and settlements.

• Design webhook infrastructure featuring message signing and replay protection.

• Establish API versioning and payment approval workflows.

• Take ownership of technical decisions, architecture, and the choice between extending or rebuilding systems.

• Drive feature delivery from defining customer problems to production deployment.

• Influence technical direction through code reviews, implementation patterns, and architectural choices.

• Monitor, debug, and enhance production systems.

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers.

• Enhance engineering practices and boost productivity.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience in production environments with Clojure, Elixir, Erlang, Haskell, Scala, or Scheme, or significant personal projects showcasing a strong grasp of functional programming.

• Expertise in the fintech domain, particularly in payments, accounts, ledgers, or compliance.

• Solid understanding of software fundamentals.

• Knowledge of distributed systems, encompassing consistency models, idempotency, and production failure scenarios.

• Experience in product-oriented, collaborative teams alongside PMs and designers.

• Ability to thrive in a startup environment, managing ambiguity, shifting priorities, and evolving requirements.

• Successful completion of background checks, including right-to-work verification, criminal records, credit history, social media, and professional references.

• Eligibility to work in the UK or a need for addressing UK work sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first flexibility: Work from any location within the UK.

• 25 days of holiday, plus bank holidays and a winter break.

• Share options available.

• Option to work from abroad for up to 20 days each year.

• Automatic enrollment in the Penfold pension scheme.

• Private medical coverage with Bupa, including family options.

• Life insurance provided by AIG.

• Access to 1:1 coaching and therapy sessions through Oliva.

• Enhanced parental leave offering up to 6 months of full pay after two years of service.

• Subscription to Claude and access to other premium AI tools.

• Assistance in creating a comfortable and productive work-from-home setup.