Software Engineer

The quality and maintainability of our software is of utmost important to us so we are looking for motivated engineers with real world 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 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 help us design and implement tightly focused APIs, services and user interfaces and, together with your team, you will support them in production.

• 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 be actively engaged in 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 prove your knowledge of Javascript, React and Node.js in our remote technical test
• You will 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 will 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 will be great at communicating context and will ensure that you effectively share your  understanding of a problem with your team
• You will have recent hands-on experience as a junior/mid-level software engineer in a team environment
• You will have experience of agile practices and values
• You will have knowledge of designing RESTful services and/or GraphQL
• You will have experience with event driven architectures
• You will have an understanding of the challenges of state management and the benefits of predictability
• You may have exposure to serverless architecture, preferably with Amazon Web Services
• You may have experience of test driven development and pair programming
• You may have experience of automated end-to-end testing
• You may have experience of functional programming
• You are a champion of modern development practices and have demonstrable knowledge of the latest trends and tooling