Senior Software Engineer

The quality and maintainability of our software is of utmost importance to us so we are looking for motivated engineers with significant experience of building full-stack software applications with a focus on the whole development lifecycle.

You will work on a cross-functional agile team, collaborating closely with Product to deliver elegant, intuitive, and user-friendly applications and services using the latest technologies. We believe in a team-first culture and invest in developing our individuals, your focus will be on guiding the efforts of other members of your team and producing simple solutions that less-experienced engineers can use, maintain, and learn from.

This is a great opportunity for you to develop, test, build, ship and operate full stack applications in the challenging environment of FinTech. You will be a key person in designing and implementing tightly focused services and and seamless digital experiences and, together with your team, you will support them in production.

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• You will work with a full-stack attitude within a self-organising, cross-functional service team using extreme programming practices
• You will leverage the ideas of the twelve-factor app to build, support and maintain products that are continuously delivered into our production environments
• You will be technically curious, tackling problems without giving up and seeking feedback early and often
• You will write comprehensible, well tested code with an eye towards maintainability and scalability, never compromising on quality
• You will partner effectively with all team members to deliver against commitments
• You will guide technical discussions during story analysis, architecture meetings and code reviews
• You will actively follow, advocate and improve our coding standards and engineering principles
• You will help to evolve our platform iteratively, without over-engineering, instead promoting simplicity and working software
• You will utilise your experience and skills to assist your team in establishing the best architecture for your products and services
• You will be willing to point out, own, and fix things that are broken about your services, your team, our company and in your own personal development
• You will provide support for junior team members, notably through pair programming and empathetic peer review
• You will promote industry best practices such as test driven development, single batch flow, feature toggles, continuous delivery, canary releases, test automation, logging and monitoring
• You will use data, domain knowledge and your own research to innovate and continuously improve our products and our platform
• You will use deliberate analysis and planning to tackle complex situations

• You are be able to prove your knowledge of Javascript, React and Node.js in our remote technical test
• You have a strong commitment to self-learning, demonstrating how you’ve developed your skills
• You are self-motivated and happy to ask questions of team members when you are blocked
• You have the ability to take ownership of a task, analyse it and solve problems you have not faced before
• You have a desire to work collaboratively in your team, learning from others and sharing what you know
• You are keen on writing simple solutions to complex problems, favouring pragmatism over dogma
• You are great at communicating context and ensure that you effectively share your understanding of a problem with your team
• You have recent hands-on experience as a mid-level/senior software engineer in a team environment
• You have relatable experience of XP/agile practices and values
• You have knowledge of designing RESTful services and/or GraphQL
• You are aware of event driven systems and the challenges of asynchronous programming
• You have an understanding of the challenges of state management and the benefits of predictability
• You have exposure to serverless architecture, preferably with Amazon Web Services
• You have experience of test driven development and a preference for pair programming
• You may have experience of automated end-to-end testing
• You have an interest in functional programming
• You may have experience coaching and mentoring other engineers
• You may have knowledge of data structures and data driven design
• You may regularly write technical articles or contribute to FoSS projects
• You are a champion of modern development practices and are aware of the latest trends and tooling