About Cuvva
Cuvva is making car insurance radically better.
Weāre creating truly flexible products that meet peopleās real needs. Using lightning-fast technology to unlock better experiences and fairer prices for our customers, Cuvva is building the future of insurance every day.
Cuvva was the first UK company to sell hourly insurance through an app. Since then weāve sold over 3 million policies and supported over 450,000 customers. Weāre a world-class team of over 100 people, passionate about solving our customersā problems. Join us.
Why work for Cuvva?
We donāt cut corners. We strive to do the right thing, even when that makes life more difficult for us.
We are customer centric and everyone in every area of the businessāincluding our CEO & Founder Freddyāis expected to spend a few hours a month on customer support. This is so we all fully understand customer needs and how the app works! Hereās a blog post on our āCops Clubā.
Weāve nurtured an awesome team culture. We always speak up when we have an idea - but also know when to let go and get behind something else. And weāre comfortable giving and receiving honest feedback, and trying new ways of doing things.
Weāre building a diverse team from different backgrounds, outlooks and experiences. Everyone is given a fair chance of getting a role at Cuvva. Even if you secretly donāt love insurance, trust us, youāll love what weāre building.
About the role
Youāll work in one of our cross-functional product squads, helping the team achieve their goals - whether thatās building a new service in our backend platform, creating a new version of an existing API to deliver a new feature, or creating a CLI tool to automate something.
We work in a highly collaborative fashion, and maintain an open and transparent work environment. Engineers at Cuvva donāt just write code or implement against a spec. Youāll be expected and encouraged to take part in the entire product development process from problem-discovery to solution design, to implementation and rollout.
Each product squad autonomously owns an area of the Cuvva product. Squads are made up of engineers from multiple disciplines (backend, web, iOS, Android), product and content designers, and a product manager. Engineers at Cuvva come from a variety of backgrounds and have different but complementary skill sets. We donāt require a computer science degree - many of us are self-taught.
Our approach
We value consistently-written, simple, resilient systems. Our backend is made up of many standalone services with a JSON-based RPC interface. We aim to create a client-agnostic API design suitable for a variety of clients (mobile apps, website, internal tooling, 3rd parties). Because weāre a regulated financial company, we have interesting and rigorous requirements to meet with regards to data security and auditability.
Most systems are written in Go (some older ones are Javascript), backed by either Postgres or Mongo, and are hosted in a container environment. We heavily lean on AWS tooling such as S3, Lambda, and SQS, and we occasionally build integrations with more ālegacyā 3rd party systems in the insurance industry.
You can find out more about our backend systems here: Our libraries and Go tooling is open sourced on GitHub āShowing off our K-sortable IDsā our blog
āHow we analyse and test new pricing modelsā our blog
āHow we test and roll out new product featuresā our blog
You'll do great here if you:
ā¢ Have genuine interest and curiosity about the Cuvva product, and consumer insurance in general
ā¢ Enjoy working as a team to solve problems collaboratively
ā¢ Have around 5 years of experience building rock-solid backend systems and APIs
ā¢ Have a track record of shipping great quality code with real customer impact
ā¢ Be comfortable and productive working with Go
ā¢Ā We donāt require commercial Go experience but you would be expected to have a basic understanding and a willingness to learn
ā¢ Having a background with at least one statically-typed language is a good sign
ā¢Ā Know your way around the major AWS services (or similar cloud services), and have an enthusiasm for cloud services in general
ā¢Ā Be comfortable working with containers (e.g. Docker, K8S, ECR, container based CI platforms)
Benefits
As well as a competitive salary (Ā£75-90k, dependent on experience) and equity based remuneration, benefits of working at Cuvva include:
ā¢ Brand new MacBook š»
ā¢ 33 days holiday (inc public holidaysš)
ā¢ Flexible working
ā¢ Wellbeing, personal development and work from home budgets
ā¢ Yearly increases to budgets and holiday allowances
ā¢ Generous parental leave policy
ā¢ One-to-one sessions with our Sanctus mental health coaches, giving you a safe space to talk š§
ā¢ Access to Lifeworks - our mental health tool and employee assistance programme
ā¢ Mates rates on your car insurance
ā¢ Salary sacrifice schemes for electric bike hire and electric car lease
ā¢ Cycle to work scheme š²
ā¢ Season ticket loans š
ā¢ A volunteer day
ā¢ Office library full of great books š
ā¢ Great coffee machine in the office āļø
ā¢ Fully stocked beer and soft drink fridge (we do team drinks every Thursday)
ā¢ Monthly team outings or remote events (so far weāve done things like karaoke, go-karting, bowling and comedy nights) š¤
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We offer life insurance to our users alongside a suite of free products to help them with the life and after-life admin. This includes the ability to write your will for free with our online will writer. We're creating a single platform for users to manage all of their families life admin, and protect the things that matter most to them.
What are we looking for?
As we expand our engineering team, we are looking for an experienced back-end developer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and can help us build and scale our product beyond the MVP. Currently we've built a web application, but next on our radar is to build a mobile app.
You will be one of the first hires of the company and working closely with our CTO and the co-founding team. Since we are an early-stage startup, you will have more responsibilities than in a regular role and play a large part in shaping the next features of the application.
Currently we're all working remotely, but post-covid we're looking for someone who is willing to commute to our London office once or twice a week.
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Tumelo is a purpose-led financial technology company, providing transparency and influence for investors who want to have impact with their money.
Find out more from the full job spec; https://www.tumelo.com/jobs/go-dev.pdf
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Please note: we get lots of successful applications for Backend Engineer, so there could be a delay in scheduling interviews from the initial stage right up until the final interviews. If you're invited to interview and you have any immediate time pressures, please let us know, as we'll always do our best to speed things up for you š
Our backend engineers have a variety of different backgrounds
We have several non-graduates; only some of us studied Computer Science; one of the team has a degree in Marketing; some of us have worked in huge companies; some have only ever worked in startups; others are former consultants. As long as you enjoy learning new things, weād love to talk to you.
We encourage an open and transparent working environment
You can get involved in any aspect of the business you are interested in and,following Stripeās example, all emails in the company are visible in an email archive. We regularly run hackathons in which people build things on our third party API and we contribute to open source software as much as possible. Weāve also made ourproduct roadmap public and give sneak peeks of features in our community forum. Our blog is a good place to learn even more about what we do!
Monzo works in project-based sprints in small, interdisciplinary teams
We have around 150 engineers out of roughly 800 people in total - and we have big ambitions. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to move between teams or to specialise, whatever you prefer. As an engineer here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company, and we run regular knowledge-sharing sessions so youāll learn heaps about everything from how banks work to effective communication.
At Monzo you will get to work with a lot of exciting new technology.
We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies:
Go to write our application code (thereās an excellent interactive Go tutorial here)
Cassandra for most persistent data storage
Kafka for our asynchronous message queue
Envoy Proxy for RPC
Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our services (Oliver,our Head of Engineering, gave a great talk at KubeCon on how we use these technologies)
AWS for most of our infrastructure
React for internal web dashboards
We also have two physical datacenter sites with actual cables to connect to various third parties
You should apply if:
the work weāre doing sounds exciting!
you want to be involved in building a product that you (andeveryone you know) use every day
youāre keen to learn more about new technologies and the arcane inner workings of the financial industry
youāre comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity
youāre interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software
you have some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go,Java, C, Scala etc.).
At the moment, the following teams are looking for backend engineers:
Product The product backend team work primarily on creating backend services and APIs for our in-app user-facing features. They work closely with our mobile engineers and designers to create a delightful user experience, and to drive growth and retention. Projects that Product backend engineers have worked on recently include Summary (giving people insight into their finances to empower them to spend sensibly) and the Current Account Switch Service (all the hard work to allow users to move to Monzo quickly and easily).
Lending The Lending team works on making borrowing money simple, fair and transparent. They've already shipped and scaled overdrafts to hundreds of thousands of Monzo customers and they've made it easy to take out a loan without the unfair fees or confusing pricing that you find elsewhere. They work on everything from the way borrowing works in the app, right down to how they move and account for money that our customers borrow. One of the most interesting problems they face is deciding how much to lend and to whom. The team believes that they can make access to credit fairer and more transparent.
Logistics
We can help you relocate to London, we can sponsor visas, and we're open to remote working (as long as you can spend around 20% of your time in London).
We offer competitive salaries based on skills and experience, which could be anywhere between Ā£40,000 - Ā£100,000 per year.
We care deeply about inclusive working practices and diverse teams. If youād prefer to work part-time or as a job-share, weāll facilitate this wherever we can - whether to help you meet other commitments or to help you strike a great work-life balance.
Weāre continually hiring for Backend Engineers! Our interview process typically consists of an initial phone screen, a take-home code task, and a half-day on-site interview. We promise not to ask you any brain teasers or trick questions, and we won't make you code on a whiteboard
Questions about this role? Head over to our careers page to read our FAQs (www.monzo.com/careers) or email tech-hiring@monzo.com
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At Curve, we are on a mission to simplify and unify the way people spend, send, see and save money. Centralising your money into a smart card, connected to an even smarter app. With Curve you can spend from all your accounts, track spend behaviour and provide insights, and security to protect you from fraud. For the first time giving you bright insights and control of all your money in one place.
We're developing a ground-breaking product with our customers at the core. Our user base is growing rapidly and we have exceptional metrics. We have funding from some of the leading names in tech investment, and a visionary leadership team who wants everyone who joins this remarkable adventure, to have the autonomy to masterfully develop their expertise.
Languages PHP, GO
Messaging RabbitMQ (and maybe Kafka in the future)
Data Snowplow, Python for the ETL
Our development practises include TDD, BDD, Scrum
Database PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redshift
Mobile IOS/Android; Objective-C/Swift/Java/Kotlin
Our devops culture includes CI, CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio & Envoy, AWS
Our ideal team member will have the following talents, skills & experience
2+ years of software development experience
In-depth knowledge of more than one software language among Golang, Java, C++, with Go experience preferable but not essential
Experience of building microservices; ideally deployed in Docker containers on Kubernetes
Experience of agile development practices
Experience with RDBMS & NoSQL datastores
Bonus points for real-time low latency high frequency transaction based systems
Ability to diagnose problems at any level (Client, HTTP/Network, Server, Database, OS)
Demonstrable experience of building large concurrent applications
Bonus points for experience of developing and shipping mobile apps to the App or Play store
Experience of developing and running large scale production environments in or closely with DevOps / SRE
A genuine interest in working in a fast paced startup and ideally Fintech
Voracious appetite for learning
MySense is a wellbeing analytics platform which utilises a suite of Zigbee IoT sensors, a sleep belt and a wearable device to provide valuable insights into a personās behaviour in order to improve quality of care and support.
We are at the forefront of a new industry which is improving peopleās lives using technology, your work will have great value and purpose. Our ideal candidate has leadership capabilities, a passion for design and strong attention to detail.
The Role
This unique role requires a Golang engineer to rebuild an embedded Java application using Go microprocesses. The current app is written in Java 8 and is hosted on an Embedded Linux system. You will need a passion for hardware and IoT as you will be doing a lot of testing using physical IoT devices.
You will work directly with the Engineering Lead to create production ready code with good test coverage. If you are a Go engineer who has always tinkered and enjoyed working with embedded Linux devices, this job will be perfect for you. The role will involve learning new technologies and becoming the go-to expert for all things gateway related.
Required Skills:
Desirable Skills:
Why us
We are a fast-growing scale-up in the IoT health space, you will help shape the team and company and your decisions will have a huge impact. As an IoT company, the challenges we face are often novel and require unique and innovative solutions which can be both invigorating and rewarding. We trust our engineers, remote working is very much encouraged.
Our culture
We foster a culture of openness and authenticity over structure and process. Strong communication, learning and collaboration are what we strive for and we are looking for people who share these values.
Our benefits:
Where
We are set up to work fully remotely, and this is how we will continue to operate. We do have offices which can be used as and when required.
We are right by Lambeth Bridge on the 12th floor of Westminster Tower with great views overlooking the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey and the London Eye.
About Cuvva
Cuvva is a new kind of insurance thatās fast, friendly, and flexible.
We get it - insurance doesnāt sound exciting. But this isnāt insurance as you know it. Itās insurance the way it should be. Weāre putting the customer first and building products that solve real human needs.
We were the first company in the UK to sell hourly insurance, and the first to sell insurance through an app. Weāve sold over 1 million policies. Weāve written over 260,000 lines of code. And weāre a fast-growing team of over 70 talented people.
Why work for Cuvva?
Weāre shaping the future of insurance. So we donāt cut corners. We try to do the right thing, even when that makes life more difficult for us.
Weāll speak up when we have an idea - but we know when to let go and get behind something else.
And weāre comfortable giving and receiving honest feedback, and trying new ways of doing things. Itās the Cuvva way.
Weāre building a diverse team with different backgrounds, outlooks and experiences. So we give everyone a fair chance of getting a role at Cuvva. Even if you secretly donāt love insurance. (Donāt worry - we didnāt either.)
And if you need any adjustments or support when youāre applying to Cuvva, no worries. Just let us know.
As well as a competitive salary (Ā£75-90k, dependent on experience) and equity based remuneration, benefits of working at Cuvva include:
Equality
Weāre committed to ensuring that everyone has a fair chance to join Cuvva, whatever your background. We will always treat your application in a fair and equal manner.
About the role
We're looking for a software engineer who has held senior positions in engineering teams within high-growth, high-scale startups, who will operate with a high level of autonomy, ensuring impeccable reliability and availability. You care deeply about building rock-solid infrastructure for the long term, with a track record of delivering solutions which support your team and your product.
You will develop Cuvva's core platform, abstracting the key processes required to sell insurance, delivering solutions that allow the team to develop strong and stable products, without having to spend time ensuring they get the basics right.
Aside from developing core platform services, we expect you will also become heavily involved with ops and security activities, contributing towards the maintenance of our servers, AWS account, etc.
"Core platform"
When we refer to the "core platform", we mean the services which underpin the processes of all insurance activities on our system.
For example, we expect one of these to be the "policy service", which might be responsible for ensuring compliant issuance of policies, coordinating mid-term adjustments, preventing overlapping policies (double insurance), etc.
Other services could include user authentication, risk & pricing calculation, handling the process of modifying user data in-line with any mid-term adjustment requirements.
All services we consider to be part of the core platform will have strict requirements around stability, data integrity and transactional safety. All functionality must fail safely and explicitly, for example using 2-phase commit processes or other similar techniques. This will also require a reasonable level of testing to validate this safety.
The perfect addition to our team will have:
We are a small team so it is important that the successful candidate is not only technically highly competent, but also a great cultural fit!
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Senior Backend Engineer
Build great technology that improves millions of lives.
Overview
Simprints builds cutting-edge technology for some of the poorest individuals in the world, and in the most challenging environments on earth. We are working at the exciting interface of biometrics, technology, and international development where our product is used to radically increase transparency and effectiveness, making sure that every vaccine, every dollar, every education initiative reaches its intended recipient. Working with mentors from top companies like Google, Microsoft, and ARM, we design and develop both hardware and software by applying modern tools in distinctly un-modern environments with little to no internet connectivity. Simprints is currently on track to support over 8 million people by 2021.
We are looking for engineers with a focus on cloud-native backend development to join our growing tech team. You will work on an agile, collaborative team with a commitment to clean code and robust design, along with a strong culture of continuous learning and improvement. If building technology for global health sounds exciting, we want to meet you!
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Bonus points
Why Simprints?
Use recent, developer-friendly technologies that let you focus on what matters:
Languages: Golang, Kotlin, Typescript
Infrastructure: Managed cloud databases (Firestore, BigQuery), managed compute nodes (App Engine, Cloud Functions), managed stream processing platform (Pub/Sub), managed logging/monitoring/tracing (Stackdriver)
Event-driven microservice architecture
Make a positive impact on millions of the most vulnerable people in the world
Work in a team of dedicated and talented engineers committed to writing high quality code. Our informal Clean Code Officer helps keep us honest
Optional opportunities to see our tech in action by joining our deployments around the world: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, or Zimbabwe just to name a few
Incredible perks
Unlimited paid time off. Last year, the average Simprints employee took a total of 31 days off (annual leave plus UK bank holidays)
Truly flexible working hours. More efficient late at night? Thatās fine by us, start after lunch. We are looking for people who get the job done, not for people who get the job done between 9am and 5pm
A generous budget (>Ā£1,500) to spend on both learning and wellness. In the past, Simprints engineers have spent this on attending tech conferences, enrolling in Udacity nanodegrees, joining bouldering gyms, and organizing instructor-led yoga sessions in the office
Two āLEGO Daysā each quarter where you can work on any project you want. Past projects have ranged from exploring image processing techniques to building a LEGO train to deliver beer around the office
Software Engineer- Golang
The big question: why on earth should a Tech professional like you work for a 150-year-old retail chain? Because weāre on a journey. Changing the way we operate. Learning to think nimble. Giving our teams the time and freedom they need to push boundaries. To create amazing systems and technologies. To give our colleagues and our customers even more incredible experiences.
There are thousands of experts to talk to and learn from. Weāve got data from billions of transactions for our teams to play with. Things get built here. They get made here. They hit customers and colleagues quickly. Welcome to the home of Sainsbury's Tech.
More about the role:
What weāre looking for:
In return youāll get:
Flexible working and job share conversations are encouraged. Across our multi-brands, weāre proud to be an equal opportunities employer that champions a diverse and inclusive culture.
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Senior Backend Engineer
Build great technology that improves millions of lives.
Overview
Simprints builds cutting-edge technology for some of the poorest individuals in the world, and in the most challenging environments on earth. We are working at the exciting interface of biometrics, technology, and international development where our product is used to radically increase transparency and effectiveness, making sure that every vaccine, every dollar, every education initiative reaches its intended recipient. Working with mentors from top companies like Google, Microsoft, and ARM, we design and develop both hardware and software by applying modern tools in distinctly un-modern environments with little to no internet connectivity. Simprints is currently on track to support over 4 million people by 2021.
We are looking for engineers with a focus on cloud-native backend development to join our growing tech team. You will work on an agile, collaborative team with a commitment to clean code and robust design, along with a strong culture of continuous learning and improvement. If building technology for global health sounds exciting, we want to meet you!
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Bonus points
Why Simprints?
Use recent, developer-friendly technologies that let you focus on what matters:
Languages: Golang, Kotlin, Typescript
Infrastructure: Managed cloud databases (Firestore, BigQuery), managed compute nodes (App Engine, Cloud Functions), managed stream processing platform (Pub/Sub), managed logging/monitoring/tracing (Stackdriver)
Event-driven microservice architecture
Make a positive impact on millions of the most vulnerable people in the world
Work in a team of dedicated and talented engineers committed to writing high quality code. Our informal Clean Code Officer helps keep us honest
Optional opportunities to see our tech in action by joining our deployments around the world: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, or Zimbabwe just to name a few
Incredible perks
Unlimited paid time off. Last year, the average Simprints employee took a total of 31 days off (annual leave plus UK bank holidays)
Truly flexible working hours. More efficient late at night? Thatās fine by us, start after lunch. We are looking for people who get the job done, not for people who get the job done between 9am and 5pm
A generous budget (>Ā£1,500) to spend on both learning and wellness. In the past, Simprints engineers have spent this on attending tech conferences, enrolling in Udacity nanodegrees, joining bouldering gyms, and organizing instructor-led yoga sessions in the office
Two āLEGO Daysā each quarter where you can work on any project you want. Past projects have ranged from exploring image processing techniques to building a LEGO train to deliver beer around the office
Work from the coolest office in Cambridge (the Bradfield Centre - think āmini-WeWorkā)