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Senior Backend Engineer
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Job Description: Senior Backend Engineer. Role Purpose: Design and build core financial integrations for a rapidly growing team. Key Requirements: 6+ years of experience as a backend engineer, ideal proficiency in JVM-based languages such as Kotlin, and experience with relational databases.
Key Highlights
Design and build core financial integrations
Collaborate cross-functionally with product, frontend, and design teams
Drive innovation and proactively suggest improvements
Key Responsibilities
Design and build core financial integrations
Collaborate cross-functionally with product, frontend, and design teams to develop new features
Share knowledge with your peers and drive innovation
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Highly competitive salary
Stock options
Private health insurance (including optical and dental cover)
Nice to Have
Advanced knowledge of JVM-based languages (particularly Kotlin)
Experience with Kubernetes and Terraform
Familiarity with advanced Postgres features such as GIST indexes, partitioning, and replication
Job Description
About The Company
We are working with an exciting Series B company that is committed to empowering small and medium-sized businesses, helping them maintaining healthy cash flow, often complicated by the complexities of payment management.
They address this by digitising and streamlining payments—from invoice capture and issuing expense cards to managing receivables and payables—all within a single platform.
It is a rapidly growing team of around 100 people that operates across multiple countries, backed by leading investors,
About Our Engineering Culture
- Engineers are central to their mission. Here’s what defines their approach:
- Customer-first focus: leverage top-tier technology to create solutions that genuinely make users’ lives easier.
- Ownership: plan, break down, and deliver the work end-to-end.
- Embracing complexity: Navigating the intricate logic of finance requires care, attention to detail, and a passion for problem-solving.
- Code quality: prioritise writing code that is robust, performant, and future-ready.
- AI integration: utilise advanced tools to enhance the product and streamline processes.
As a Senior Backend Engineer on the team, you will:
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, frontend, and design teams to develop new features.
- Design and build core financial integrations that ensure the security and efficiency of customer transactions.
- Share knowledge with your peers, drive innovation, and proactively suggest improvements.
- 6+ years of continuous experience as a backend engineer.
- Ideal proficiency in JVM-based languages (consideration for others possible).
- Experience in a product-driven, fast-paced environment (e.g., startup or tech company).
- Willingness to work with Kotlin (current server-side language).
- Experience with relational databases.
- Working knowledge of cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform.
- Strong commitment to code quality, efficient architecture, and performance optimisation.
- Advanced knowledge of JVM-based languages, particularly Kotlin.
- Experience with Kubernetes and Terraform.
- Familiarity with advanced Postgres features such as GIST indexes, partitioning, and replication.
- Highly competitive salary
- Stock options
- Pension plan (matched up to 5%)
- Private health insurance (including optical and dental cover)
- Life assurance
- Enhanced parental leave
- Weekly meal allowance
- 29 days annual leave (in addition to bank holidays)
- Flexible working hours
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Electric vehicle scheme
- Opportunity to work and travel for up to six weeks per year
- Visa sponsorship (if applicable)
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