Senior Backend Engineer (ID: gkeq3rBH)

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll work within a multidisciplinary squad alongside product managers, designers, researchers, analysts, mobile and web engineers, marketers, and writers. Together, you'll own and improve a key area of the product experience.

You'll contribute to designing, building, and operating resilient distributed systems while helping shape products that millions of customers rely on every day.

Following a common interview process, we'll match successful candidates with the collective that best aligns with their experience, interests, and business needs.

What You'll Bring:

We're interested in engineers from a variety of backgrounds. You should apply if you:

• Have strong backend engineering experience building technology products.
• Enjoy solving customer problems and delivering meaningful outcomes.
• Take a product-minded approach and use data to inform decisions.
• Thrive in environments with ambiguity and evolving requirements.
• Have an interest in distributed systems and reliable software design.
• Have experience with strongly typed languages such as Go, Java, Scala, or C++.
• Are excited about our mission and the challenges we're solving.

Formal qualifications and degree requirements are not necessary.

Technology Stack:

We hire technology-agnostically and provide comprehensive onboarding. Current technologies include:

• Go
• Cassandra
• Kafka
• Kubernetes & Docker
• Envoy Proxy
• AWS & Google Cloud Platform
• React
• Physical datacenter infrastructure supporting banking integrations

How We Work:

Our primary engineering hub is in London, but engineers work remotely across the UK.

We value flexibility and trust people to work in ways that fit both their lives and their teams. There is no mandated office attendance, although teams regularly meet in person for collaboration and social events. Travel to London for requested visits is supported.

We also support:

• Flexible working hours
• Part-time arrangements where possible
• Healthy work-life balance
• Family and personal commitments
• Interview Process
• Introductory call
• Take-home task or pair-programming exercise

Final stage:

• System design interview
• Behavioural interview

The typical process takes approximately four weeks, and we'll work around your availability.

What We Offer:

• £95,000–£130,000 base salary
• Performance-based incentive awards
• Visa sponsorship available
• Relocation support to the UK
• Flexible remote working within the UK
• £1,000 annual learning budget for books, courses, and conferences
• Comprehensive benefits package

About Us:

We are home to around 400 engineers building and scaling our in-house banking platform. Technology is at the heart of our mission to create a bank customers love, and our engineers work across the business to solve complex, high-impact problems.

Our teams build everything from customer-facing products to the infrastructure that powers them, spanning areas such as Core Banking, Payments, Platform, Security, Financial Crime, Data, Business Banking, Wealth, Borrowing, Growth, and Expansion.

We embrace open-source software and encourage knowledge sharing through our engineering community and technical blog.

Diversity & Inclusion:

We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including those who may not meet every listed requirement.

If you're excited about the role and eager to grow, we'd love to hear from you.

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications regardless of age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family status, disability, neurodiversity, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.