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Senior Software Engineer Lemonaid Health San Francisco, United States / London, United Kingdom $160,000 to $180,000 a year
July 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Lemonaid Health is a mission driven technology startup committed to providing quality and affordable healthcare to patients nationwide. We build long term relationships with patients by offering a broad range of primary care services to help them lead happier, healthier lives. Weâre backed by large strategic and healthcare investors like OTV and Health Velocity Capital.
Lemonaid Health comprises an entrepreneurial team of over 100 people who live each day by our 7 Guiding Principles including celebrating wow, setting a high bar, leading in innovation, and championing equality. Interested in transforming healthcare? Apply today and join our growing team of Lemons!
The Engineering team at Lemonaid Health is a collaborative team who enjoy working together on big goals. We have a culture that values truth seekers and speakers, where respect for one another is fundamental. Weâre looking for experienced full stack engineers to build and design world-class software with us. This is an opportunity to join a mission driven team at a company transforming the healthcare industry.
This position is located in the SF Bay Area and reports to the Chief Technology Officer.
What youâll do
First and foremost, developing software that will WOW our users and help us scale.
Collaborate with the team to brainstorm and create new exciting products for our patients.
Work with product management, design and other engineers to determine the best way to implement solutions.
Make informed decisions quickly and take ownership of services and applications at scale.
Be a persistent, creative problem Âsolver.
Remain cool and effective in a crisis.
Deliver high quality testable and maintainable code.
Passionate about great technologies, especially open source.
Understand business needs and know how to create the tools to manage them
Help and mentor other team members.
What youâll bring
5+ years of experience as a software engineer building consumer facing applications
Experience with full-stack web development in languages like Golang or PHP and a modern Javascript framework
Either strong OOP or Functional Programming and modeling skills.
Experience working in an agile environment.
Experience building consumer-facing, complex web systems that have been successfully launched.
Experience working in an environment covered by PCI, HIPAA or other high standard of security and privacy would be a bonus
Communicate professionally, tactfully, and kindly while maintaining a high level of confidentiality at all times
Why we think youâll be excited about us:
At Lemonaid Health, we strive to be the best place to work. We have ingrained a culture of giving and receiving feedback, and providing a challenging, yet fun, work environment.
We are proud to offer competitive medical benefits in addition to 401(k) matching, generous PTO, and more!
Our Lemons live each day by our Guiding Principles:
Aim for âwowâ in everything we do.
Be driven by our mission to increase access to healthcare.
Lead in innovation - act first.
Communicate clearly using the correct communication medium.
Set a high bar for ourselves and each other - provide and take feedback.
Be proactive - never say âthatâs just how we always do itâ.
Champion equality - proactively be anti-discriminatory.
VISA Sponsorship
We are not able to support VISA sponsorship at this time
Compensation
London, United Kingdom: 65,000-75,000GBP/year
San Francisco, USA: 160,000-180,000USD/year
Location
The location is onsite on our London and San Francisco offices, flexible work is allowed (2-3 days/week)
DevOps / Platform Engineer SOON_ Remote (UK) / London, United Kingdom ÂŁ40,000 to ÂŁ55,000 a year
June 2021
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Platform Engineers work collaboratively with the engineering and project teams alongside producers, designers and engineers. In this role you will; work on the development of backend microservices in collaboration with the engineering team and support the team through maintaining our continuous integration and deployment processes.
We design and build services, platforms and products for our customers and your role will be focused on building platforms and APIs for the team to build on. We alsoâ research, prototype and build our own products as part of our R&D process - youâll be actively involved in this with opportunities to explore technologies you are most interested in.
What you will be doing
Building backend microservices and APIs (Go, Serverless / Cloud Functions, Node).
Supporting the team with CI/CD automation (i.e. creating staging environments so our frontend engineers can test their code).
Helping to scope and define effort for infrastructure requirements on a variety of different projects â from CMSâs to large scale eCommerce projects.
Day-to-day management and monitoring of our GCP infrastructure.
Keeping up to date with and identifying suitable new technology-related trends, techniques, tools and methodologies.
Requirements
2+ years experience in a digital agency, startup or product team.
Strong programming skills with development experience and expertise in at least one language (preferably Go).
Experience setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
Experience with scalable cloud deployments (GCP ideally but any other cloud platform like AWS or Azure).
Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL, Redis, Cloud Datastore/Firestore).
Familiarity with test driven development
.
Deep familiarity with Linux/Unix.
Nice to have
Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers, and container orchestration technologies.
Experience with infrastructure as code (ideally Terraform).
Knowledge of secure coding practices including OWASP, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation.
Familiarity with security auditing (Web Security Scanner, Burp Suite).
The mindset we are looking for
Love what you do; we really care about our clients and the work.
Love to learn; learning new things is what motivates all of us and is why we love the Web.
Be proactive; you get out what you put in.
Show talent; make us feel like weâll never be that good.
Attention to detail; we worry, fret and polish till itâs right.
What youâll get out of it
Weâre a small company and a tight team - we work collaboratively, we share load, we have deep specialist experience but often blend roles.
Weâre also a tech start-upââ ââ researching, prototyping and building our own products as part of our R&D process. Youâll be actively involved in this with opportunities to explore technologies youâre most interested in.
We pay fair London wages, encourage decent amounts of holiday and support remote and flexible working. To make sure our staff are as safe as possible during the pandemic, we are all working from home, with mature systems and processes in place that make this as easy as possible. In 2021 weâll be making fresh decisions about how and where we work. It will be flexible, youâll be allowed to work from home if you like it and there will be alternatives if you donât.
We're building the connected finance businesses deserve. Unleashing them with tomorrow's technology, today. Our flexible payments solutions help global enterprises â like Samsung, Deliveroo and Adidas â launch new products and create experiences customers love. And it's not just what we build that makes us different. It's how.
We liberate smart, passionate people to collaborate, innovate and do their best work â faster. That's why we're one of the most valuable fintech firms around. But we're just getting started. By cutting through financial complexity, we'll empower companies to change the world. Join us. Unlock your potential.
Build tomorrow, today.
Senior Software Engineer at Checkout.com:
Our solutions allow merchants to route dynamically a transaction to the best payment provider to optimise their conversion rate. Your main task will be to design and create or maintain micro-services within our infrastructure. Our product handles millions of transactions within a week. The API has its key part on it but the load is also on a multitude of other services.
You will work closely with our technical teams to learn about the possible technical bottle-necks. We have implemented different technologies such as Go (go-kit toolkit, gRPCâŚ), Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL and many others. Your role would be to lead us to new technologies that our product can benefit from.
Our product handles financial data making uptime one of our key KPIs. We expect that you will be able to work on high-availability and technically challenging programs.
You will join a talented team of 10 engineers, Data Scientists and DevOps, that are tech-passionate, working closely with most of them. Our main goal is to ensure that we can contribute to your personal growth as an engineer.
Payments are often compared to a black-box. Merchants around the world have issues understanding how their performance is and what optimization can be done. Our team is focused on building the best payment performance tool there is. It allows merchants to better understand their online processes as well as offline payments.
We offer 2 products to our merchants:The first, named Telescope, allows us to analyse, understand and make recommendations to a merchant. It does not require any technical integration from them and works mainly through webhooks, pulling data from APIs or parsing exported files.
About You
3 years software development experience in Go
Know your way around web-related tech (HTTP, TLS, proxies, API conventions...)
Implemented APIs
Experience deploying applications as a part of a service-oriented architecture
Curious and unafraid of digging deeper to understand how systems of all kinds work
Keen to communicate with third-party gateways from a technical point of view as well as to maintain the best relationship as possible
Knowledge in the payment ecosystem
Worked on critical services
Some basic knowledge about ElasticSearch
What you will be doing
Payment gateway integrations: Interacting with external APIs through an in-house framework, handling webhooks notifications and parsing bank reconciliation summary files
Communication with third party payment gateways
Design and implement new workflows on our services
If you don't meet all the requirements but think you might still be right for the role, please apply anyway. We're always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.
#LI-RS2
What we stand for
At Checkout.com, everything starts with our values, including the experience we offer our people.
#Aspire
We supercharge your professional growth with career development programs and leadership training. You can learn your way, with tailored pathways and online platforms. And be inspired at relevant conferences.
#Excel
We don't stop at 'good' here. We strive for excellence amongst our teams every day and recognize colleagues who take it to the next level through our quarterly peer-nominated Hero awards.
#Unite
We're proud of our global connections and inclusive environment. So we champion this through our colleague-led community groups and celebrate many cultural events together.
More about Checkout.com
We empower businesses to adapt, innovate and thrive with the connected payments they deserve. Our technology makes payments seamless. We provide the fastest, most reliable payments in more than 150 currencies, with in-country acquiring, world-class fraud filters and reporting, through one API. And we can accept all major international credit and debit cards, as well as popular alternative and local payment methods. Checkout.com launched in 2012, and we now have a team of 1000 people across 17 international offices. To date, weâve raised a total of $830 million, with our recent Series C valuing us at $15 billion.
We believe in equal opportunities
Checkout.com is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience, skills and personality. We believe that employing a diverse workforce is the right thing to do and is central to our success.
Principal Software Engineer Bud Remote (UK) / London, United Kingdom ÂŁ80,000 to ÂŁ100,000 a year
May 2021
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Our Missionđ
Bud's mission is simple. We're here to create the worldâs most compelling financial data products. The products we're building are used by some of the world's most prestigious institutions to help millions of their customers take control of their finances.
Your Missionđ¨âđđŠâđ
Youâll be leading the development of some of Budâs most critical internal services that are utilised by product teams across Bud as well as owning a number of core platform exposed services that are non-product specific for domains such as authentication and traffic management. Every request that hits the Bud Platform will end up touching at least one of the services youâre responsible for. Youâll be contributing to Bud-wide architecture as well as actively developing in Budâs Platform & Security [Product] Team where youâll be the driving software engineering force in the team (which is mostly composed of SRE/Platform Engineers). Youâll also be a core channel of representing the perspective of backend engineers in the team and helping the team to solve cross-engineering problems.
What youâll be working with
You'll chiefly be using Go working on our various internal or exposed services although we also have a number of services in our Platform written in Python.
Using a range of different technologies including Cassandra, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch (ELK), RabbitMQ, Prometheus, Grafana, Envoy, Kubernetes, Istio, Vault
If youâre interested in picking up one of our languages, a new technology or skill we provide lots of opportunities to learn with a mentoring programme, R&D days and regular training available. We like to help people grow and learn!
A bit about you
You are a well-rounded, inquisitive engineer who enjoys solving complex problems using clean, efficient and creative methods and putting those solutions into action working in a team
Proven experience with Go; and a great foundation with another programming language (e.g. Java, C, C++, Ruby, PHP or Python)
You think about resilience, reliability and scalability on-par with other functional requirements and are experienced in balancing and implementing strategies against requirements in these areas
Awesome analytical and communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex ideas to non-experts with eloquence and confidence
Comfortable working with SQL and NoSQL databases
Automated testing of systems and applications is second nature to you
You understand and advocate the value of observability and are comfortable implementing and utilising metrics, tracing and logging
Able to both work independently as well as collaboratively within a team
Experience with defining, monitoring and alerting against SLOs
Taking it to the next level
Experience with Kubernetes
Youâve worked on/with gRPC APIs from both a client and a server perspective
Any security engineering background or experience working with cryptography libraries
Previous experience in banking or fintech, particularly Open Banking related, companies
Experience working in a cloud environment such as Google Cloud Platform or AWS
Experience working with Cassandra, RabbitMQ or Kafka
Comfortable with Site Reliability Engineering principles, tools and drivers
Experience working in an internal Platform Team or working closely with SREs/Platform Engineers and/or Security Engineers
Comfortable leading or participating in operational (or security) incident response
Engineering at Bud
The software engineering team are tasked with solving highly technical problems to enable solutions that tangibly benefit the lives of millions of people. From how to scale our solutions to tens of millions of users in the most effective manner of integrating hundreds of third-party businesses. Data is key to our business and we need passionate developers to help capture it, store it, transform it, research and most importantly secure it.
What is it like to work for Bud?
We could play buzzword bingo but one of our core values is 'Authentic' and the best way to demonstrate this is by sharing our employee engagement dashboard. This provides a weekly engagement and NPS score giving you a true reflection of life at Bud. All data collected is realtime & anonymised so we have no control over what you see.
The dashboard is interactive so check it out here and have a look at what the numbers mean, https://bit.ly/2MhjAZT
A bit more about us
Weâre a diverse group of people. With backgrounds ranging from data science to music production, more than 80% of our team come from outside the world of finance â providing us with a unique perspective as we help consumers feel more in control of their lives. For us, an interest in people comes first; finance follows.
More about what we're doing
The apps and infrastructure weâre building are designed to place the power of personal data back into the hands of normal people. Picture this: a world where your bank knew you were paying too much for your gas bill and could switch you to a more suitable provider, or understood your savings targets and could automatically find you a better deal. Thatâs what weâre working towards.
We believe that diversity will make us better.
Budâs mission is to make the money part of peopleâs lives simple. To get there, we need a workforce that is diverse as the people we create our products for. Which means we need people who have different backgrounds and experiences, who are diverse in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and ways of thinking. We truly believe that these differences will make us grow as a company and a team. We strive to create a workplace and culture where our people are empowered, supported, given equal opportunities and can bring their authentic selves to work.
To read our job applicant privacy policy, please click here.
Benefits
Compensation đ°
We offer competitive salaries in line with industry benchmarks, set using extensive market data. We review salaries on an annual basis to make sure we continue to reward people well for their contributions at Bud.
Options đ
Anyone joining Bud is granted stock options and the opportunity to invest in what we are building and developing, and to get to share in our future successes.
Wellbeing Allowance đď¸ââď¸đ§ââď¸
We understand how important it is to look after your physical and mental health, and also that this looks different for everyone. To support this, Bud has a ÂŁ50 monthly flexible wellbeing allowance which can be used towards your own wellness, whether thatâs a gym membership, meal-box subscription, massages or something else!
Learning & Development đ
As part of our commitment to developing our people, all employees at Bud have an annual ÂŁ500 pot available to use towards their learning and development - think books, courses & events - the choice is yours.
We also have quarterly R&D days, giving you the opportunity to take a break for 2 days from live projects and work on something thatâs inspired you, either independently or as part of a collaborative team.
Flexible Working âł
As a trusted member of the Bud, youâll have the freedom and flexibility to manage your time and routine in a way that suits you, and your team, allowing you to deliver your best work. This role can be based in our London office, or fully remote/distributed in the UK.
Time Off đď¸
Weâre a team that likes to work hard, so we need to make sure we balance this with time to rest and relax. We offer 25 days holiday, plus the usual bank holidays, plus additional time off over the holiday season.
Equipment đť
We want to make sure everyone is set up to work effectively and comfortably - so youâll get to choose your own kit, including any additional equipment you might need to work from home.
Social đđş
Weâre big on keeping Bud a social place to work, with big quarterly events (we throw an epic summer party), regular team socials & monthly company breakfasts. This year weâve stepped up our virtual social scene with quiz nights, virtual cocktail making, book clubs, and online workouts.
Commuting đ
We are big advocates of sustainable transport and travel, and are members of a cycle to work scheme. We also have season ticket loans available.
Pension đŚ
We believe in helping our staff save for retirement, with Bud matching pension contributions up to 5%
Senior Go Developer Perkbox London, United Kingdom ÂŁ70,000 to ÂŁ80,000 a year
April 2021
10 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About Us
Perkbox is a platform that provides a unique employee experience, enriching the personal and working life of employees. It offers a suite of products including access to best in class Perks, Perkbox Medical, Perkbox Recognition and Perkbox Insights. It serves companies such as Nandoâs, Caffe Nero, Krispy Kreme and Levi Strauss & Co. Headquartered in London, Perkbox has offices in Sheffield, Paris and Australia and are on a mission to improve the employee experience at a Global level.
Weâre an ambitious, fast paced scale up where things evolve all the time. The success of our mission depends on your high expectations, your autonomy and your proactivity. We donât have a rule book and thatâs why we always strive to work better together. Weâre up for a challenge to solve problems that are bigger than us, and we promise you one thing for sure - you will never stop growing here.
Our mission is simple: take our leading product and transform it into a global SaaS product. Working in a small team of developers you'll be evolving our platform and infrastructure by developing microservices, creating tools, building APIs, writing tests, integrating systems and utilising AWS cutting-edge features to enhance the platform experience for a global user base.
You will need to hit the ground running in getting a measure of our platform and service architecture with support from our Product & Engineering teams and solutions architects. You will be working across teams to not only deliver code, but also to take a leading role in the design of services and implementations. You will understand the value of an MVP and know how to efficiently scale back functionality to meet user impact or time-bound requirements whilst maintaining stability.
On a day to day basis you will:
Work with other senior engineers to architect and design backend software to meet the needs of the business
Work closely with front-end engineers, data engineers, product managers, UX and DevOps - We work in small super-focussed cross functional teams who take ownership on a specific product features
Youâll be creating new Golang microservices, adding features and fixing bugs on our existing microservices
Perform fair and considered peer code reviews,
Writing bucket loads of good quality, testable code (and tests)
Requirements
About You
You'll need to have:
Proven track record architecting and delivering Go projects to a high standard
Experience in not only writing microservices from scratch but also in understanding and developing existing services against a roadmap
Building high performance, scalable services using protocol buffers/gPRC
Experience writing test suites, specifically unit and integration tests
An excellent communicator
Tech background:
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS
Git
Microservices via gRPC and event-driven architecture
MySQL, noSQL, Postgres
Experience with TDD, Unit, functional and E2E testing
Continuous integration/deployment
Self-driven, quality controlled
The cherry on the cake...
Experience with Service Mesh and Linkerd
Experience with Terraform or any Infrastructure as Code toolkit
React.js/Node.js/Typescript
GraphQL
A track record using Go in Open Source projects
Benefits
Are there any benefits besides the salary?
When you think of Perkbox, you probably think about all our free perks â like free coffee from CaffĂŠ Nero, free cinema tickets, gym discounts, birthday boxes, our employee assistance programme (EAP), and access to an online GP.
And yes â everyone who works here gets all the same great perks we give to our customers. But don't go thinking that's everything. Our culture goes well beyond the perks we're famous for!
We're also all about celebrating anniversaries and recognising your biggest achievements. We stoke the fires of your curiosity with external speakers and generous learning budgets. We practice transparency with regular 'Let's Talk' sessions from the senior leadership team. We take the time to listen to every single employee and use your feedback to make improvements to our company culture. We support working parents, provide pension plans â are you ready for this one? We're a dog-friendly office too!
It's all about delivering a work-life balance that lets you live your very best life.
Senior Developer Government Digital Service London / Bristol / Manchester, United Kingdom ÂŁ50,000 to ÂŁ80,000 a year
February 2021
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Who we are
The Government Digital Service (GDS) is part of the Cabinet Office. We lead the digital transformation of the UK government so that it works better for everyone.
Following our Government Design Principles, we deliver platforms, standards and digital services to help departments transform how they work and meet the needs of their users.
Our work is user-focused, dynamic and forward-looking, making our organisation an exciting and innovative place to work.
Youâll share the responsibility for the digital transformation of government. Youâll ensure high quality code is delivered in line with project goals and delivery cycles. Youâll thrive using agile methods and enjoy working openly, collaboratively and as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on one or more projects. Above all, youâll want to make government better, which may sometimes involve challenging the status quo. Also, as part of the Data Standards Authority youâll lead by example adopting and promoting data standards.
lead the implementation of our central API catalogue.
shape the technical solution of a federated API catalogue
support wider technical needs from the Data Standards Authority and across Data and Innovation
take responsibility for solving complex issues, and for the quality of the code produced
work in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure our software puts user needs first
build automated tests to support our continuous deployment environment
share knowledge of tools and techniques with your wider team, both developers and non-developers
act as a digital ambassador across government, supporting recruitment, identifying good practices for GDS to adopt and sharing experiences, e.g. through blog posts, tech talks at conferences
be involved in helping recruit developers and, where appropriate, helping sift and interview
Who you are
Weâre interested in people who:
have experience in back-end development, with detailed knowledge of Ruby
understand software design principles
research and learn new programming tools and techniques
take a systematic approach to solving problems
have experience of using testing to validate solutions
understand agile environments and version control
understand web security and accessibility
have an awareness of technologies used for web applications, e.g databases, backups, CDNs and search, and of Unix-like operating systems, e.g. Linux, Mac OS
have experience working with web technologies
How you'll be assessed
In the Civil Service, we use our Success Profiles. For each role we advertise we consider what you will need to demonstrate to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity. We will be looking at your experience, career history and achievements that are relevant to the specific job role.
For this role we will be assessing your ability, strength, experience, technical/specialist skills and behaviours, the following behaviours are the most relevant:
working together
changing and improving
making effective decisions
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.
Things you need to know
You can find out about the application process and practical details like our office locations on the things you need to know page.
Sofware Engineer Go Bud Remote, UK / London, United Kingdom ÂŁ45,000 to ÂŁ75,000 a year
November 2020
5 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Our Missionđ
Bud's mission is simple. We're here to create the worldâs most compelling financial data products. The products we're building are used by some of the world's most prestigious institutions to help millions of their customers take control of their finances.
Your Missionđ¨âđđŠâđ
Youâll be writing and contributing to microservices mainly written in Go and hosted in a containerised environment. Your time will be split between building APIs using a mix of HTTP and gRPC, monitoring daemons, creating data parsers and so much more. If building a secure database storage engine or high performance APIs sounds like the kind of challenge youâd enjoy then weâd love for you to get in touch.
What impact will you make
You'll chiefly be using Go in our various backend and data engineering projects, with some of our services and tooling also being written in PHP and Python
Using a range of different data stores across our teams including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, HDFS
You'll be working with RabbitMQ for queues
If youâre interested in picking up one of our languages, a new technology or skill we provide lots of opportunities to learn with a mentoring programme, R&D days and regular training available. We like to help people grow and learn!
A bit about you
Proven experience with Go; and a great foundation with another programming language (e.g. Java, C, C++, Ruby, PHP or Python)
You are a well-rounded, inquisitive engineer who enjoys solving complex problems using clean, efficient and creative methods and putting those solutions into action working in a team
Comfortable working with SQL and NoSQL databases
Experience with automated testing of systems and applications
Taking it to the next level
Experience interacting with or building APIs
You think always about solutions from a security perspective or enjoy working with cryptography libraries
Previous experience in banking or fintech companies
A good understanding of application, information and infrastructure architectures, such as API / SDK development and integrations
Awesome analytical and communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex ideas to non-experts with eloquence and confidence
Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes
Experience working in a cloud environment such as Google Cloud Platform or AWS
Engineering at Bud
The software engineering team is tasked with solving highly technical problems to enable solutions that tangibly benefit the lives of millions of people. From how to scale our solutions to tens of millions of users in the most effective manner, to integrating hundreds of third-party businesses, data is key to our business and we need passionate developers to help capture it, store it, transform it, research it and most importantly secure it.
What is it like to work for Bud?
We could play buzzword bingo but one of our core values is 'Authentic' and the best way to demonstrate this is by sharing our employee engagement dashboard. This provides a weekly engagement and NPS score giving you a true reflection of life at Bud. All data collected is realtime & anonymised so we have no control over what you see.
The dashboard is interactive so check it out here and have a look at what the numbers mean, https://bit.ly/2MhjAZT
What is the role paying?
Based on our extensive benchmarking we have budgeted at ÂŁ55,000-ÂŁ75,000 per annum + 5% options on equity which vests over 3 years, with a 1 year cliff.
What are the perks?
đ 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays)! You can carry up to 5 over the following year if you wish.
đ§ââď¸đ§Health and Wellbeing Allowance! We have a monthly allowance of ÂŁ50 for all employees to use towards wellbeing activities such as classes or a gym membership.
đŠâđťđ¨âđťFlexible working! We encourage autonomy here at Bud. We trust you to work in a way that will enable you to deliver your best work. Bud supports flexible working; we want you to perform at your best and recognise that other issues will arise from time to time.
đ°We match up to 5% of your salary in our pension plan.
đYouâll be provided with a brand new MacBook or PC, and any computer accessories you need so youâll have the best tools for the job!
đSeason Ticket loan
đą The biggest motivation for people is learning and developing, our people have up to ÂŁ500 per annum of learning and development opportunities funded by Bud.
đ¤šââď¸đ¤šââď¸ We're big on keeping Bud a social team, so Christmas and Summer parties can be a big deal. We also put on events and have a new social committee every quarter to keep it exciting in normal times. At the moment we have remote events which change often depending on what the teams are interested in.
A bit more about us
Weâre a diverse group of people. With backgrounds ranging from data science to music production, more than 80% of our team come from outside the world of finance â providing us with a unique perspective as we help consumers feel more in control of their lives. For us, an interest in people comes first; finance follows.
More about what we're doing
The APIs and infrastructure weâre building are designed to place the power of personal data back into the hands of normal people. Picture this: a world where your bank knew you were paying too much for your gas bill and could switch you to a more suitable provider, or understood your savings targets and could automatically find you a better deal. Thatâs what weâre working towards.
We believe that diversity will make us better
Budâs mission is to create the worldâs most compelling financial data products. Getting there requires a workforce as diverse as the people we create our products for, be that in terms of age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or ways of thinking. We truly believe that these differences will make us grow as a company and a team. We strive to create a workplace and culture where our people are empowered, supported, given equal opportunities and can bring their authentic selves to work.
To read our job applicant privacy policy, please click here.
Backend Engineer - Tech Ops Monzo London United Kingdom / Remote (UK) ÂŁ69,000 to ÂŁ116,000 a year
November 2020
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Weâre looking for a Backend Engineer to join our TechOps squad at Monzo.
Our TechOps squad is primarily responsible for making sure everyone at Monzo has all of the tools they need to do a great job. That means managing all of our devices (predominantly running Mac and Chrome OS), managing our G-Suite domains, providing 1:1 support to Monzonauts across the business, and much much more.
A big contributor to the success TechOps have had to date is the way weâve embedded engineers in the squad, meaning weâve been able to automate away a lot of the manual work traditionally associated with a TechOps squad.
This has allowed us to move quickly, achieve an incredible ratio of TechOps people to total employees, and reap the benefits of being able to hire people all across the world without friction.
Youâll help us solve problems such as:
How do we continue to offer outstanding service to all of our Monzonauts without exponentially increasing the number of people working in TechOps? What can we build to automate the work of 20 people?
What parts of traditional IT can we rethink with code to supercharge TechOps at Monzo?
How do we build a seamless, delightful experience for Monzonauts with best-in-class homegrown code and third party services?
The role
Youâll be a backend engineer in the squad. Some of the projects youâll be involved in might include:
Integrating MDM (Mobile Device Management) and making this a function that integrates with everything else at Monzo, from inventory to access levels on your AWS account.
Building a seamless way to replicate groups, roles and other logical frameworks across first and third party applications to make authorisation for a Monzonaut a seamless experience.
Building on a system to track any and every Monzo-owned asset, from network switches to access passes and everything in between.
So much more - youâll have the opportunity to influence our roadmap and build on the foundations already in place to continue scaling TechOps with Monzo
Youâll work closely with TechOps generalists and engineers from around the business to tackle some of the challenges mentioned above, working at the intersection between Security, People and TechOps to make sure weâre moving forwards together.
Security, scalability and how we continue to support the services youâre building should always be front of mind.
Youâll also have the opportunity to coach and mentor others in the squad on engineering best practices. We want to empower everyone in the squad to automate away the low-value manual work, and youâll be key to unlocking this potential alongside other engineers in the squad.
At Monzo weâre aiming to build the best current account in the world. We are always keen to hear from capable, creative engineers who want to help us accomplish that goal đ
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, weâd love to talk to you. We do not ask for formal qualifications or degree requirements for any of our engineering roles.
We are actively creating an equitable environment for all of our engineers to thrive
Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we are making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. We provide a sponsorship framework in Engineering for women and people of colour; all of our leaders are trained on privilege awareness and we are creating partnerships with organisations dedicated to supporting underrepresented groups. You can read more in our 2020 Diversity and Inclusion report.
We encourage an open and transparent working environment
You can get involved in any aspect of the business you are interested in and, following Stripeâs example, all emails in the company are visible in an email archive. We contribute to open source software as much as possible. 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 1,400 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 youâll 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 (thereâs an excellent interactive Go tutorial here)
We also have two physical datacenter sites with actual cables to connect to various third parties
Our product squads are truly cross-functional.
This role is all about collaborating across disciplines to test hypotheses and make a difference to customers. As a product backend engineer youâll work in a squad alongside product managers, marketers, user researchers, designers, mobile engineers, web engineers, data analysts, business analysts, writers and more!
You should apply if
Youâre someone who doesn't wait to be told what to do. You spot problems and proactively fix them
Youâre an engineer who's happy writing (or would like to learn to write) views in React and backend services in Go
Youâre someone who can think big, but start small. The squad have lots of ideas and youâll need to help shape these and show what is possible - then bring that to life
You have ideas about how we can think âbig pictureâ and can scale TechOps going forward
Youâre comfortable working with an interrupt-driven squad. A lot of what the squad does is reactive, and youâll need to support that at times. TechOps spin a lot of plates, and itâs important that you can see the bigger picture and prioritise your time to work on the most important problems
Logistics
Salary is around ÂŁ69,000 - ÂŁ116,000 plus stock options and other benefits.
We can help you relocate to London & we can sponsor visas.
This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working (with ad hoc meetings in London once COVID is over).
We have payroll set up in three countries: the UK, Ireland, and France. Right now, we can only hire people who work from those countries and weâll keep this updated with new ones as we expand and are able to hire from more places đ
We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.
Diversity and inclusion is a priority for us â if we want to solve problems for people around the world, our team has to represent our customers. So we need to attract the best talent and create an environment that supports and includes them. You can read more about diversity and inclusion on our blog.
If you prefer to work part-time, we'll make this happen whenever we can - whether this is to help you meet other commitments or strike a great work-life balance.
Our interview process is normally a phone interview, a coding task and call to discuss it, and 2-3 hours of onsite interviews that can be conducted via hangouts as well. We promise not to ask you any brain teasers or trick questions. We might design a system together on a whiteboard, the same way we often work together, but we wonât make you write code on one.
Equal Opportunity Statement
At Monzo, embracing diversity in all of its forms and fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone.
We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.
Backend Engineer Cuvva London, United Kingdom ÂŁ75,000 to ÂŁ90,000 a year
July 2020
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About Cuvva
Cuvva is a new kind of insurance thatâs fast, friendly, and flexible.
We get it - insurance doesnât sound exciting. But this isnât insurance as you know it. Itâs insurance the way it should be. Weâre 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. Weâve sold over 1 million policies. Weâve written over 260,000 lines of code. And weâre a fast-growing team of over 70 talented people.
Why work for Cuvva?
Weâre shaping the future of insurance. So we donât cut corners. We try to do the right thing, even when that makes life more difficult for us.
Weâll speak up when we have an idea - but we know when to let go and get behind something else.
And weâre comfortable giving and receiving honest feedback, and trying new ways of doing things. Itâs the Cuvva way.
Weâre 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 donât love insurance. (Donât worry - we didnât either.)
And if you need any adjustments or support when youâre applying to Cuvva, no worries. Just let us know.
As well as a competitive salary (ÂŁ75-90k, dependent on experience) and equity based remuneration, benefits of working at Cuvva include:
Equality
Weâre 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.
Professional development budget
Brand new MacBook
Health and wellbeing budget
Enhanced parental leave
Workplace pension scheme
33 days of holiday a year (including public holidays )
Referral bonus when you bring your friends to join the Cuvva team
Office library full of great books
Fresh fruit and breakfast club every day
Season ticket loans
Cycle to work scheme
A day off to volunteer
One-to-one sessions with our Sanctus coach, giving you a safe space to talk about your mental health
Coffee machine in the office
Fully stocked beer and soft drink fridge - we do team drinks every Thursday
Regular team lunches
Monthly team outings (so far weâve done things like karaoke, go-karting, bowling and comedy night)
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:
a fiercely independent and self-driven approach
5+ years' commercial experience working on back-end systems at high-scale startups
at least a year of commercial experience working with Go
strong knowledge of security practices, ideally with a slightly grey-hat background
a working knowledge of the entire web stack - from how DNS lookups are transmitted, to how browsers prioritize CSS rules
awareness of compliance and financial regulation
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!
Senior DevOps Engineer Funding Circle London, UK / Limited Remote ÂŁ80,000 to ÂŁ90,000 a year
March 2020
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Funding Circle brings together small businesses and investors in a way that is truly revolutionary. We're here to foster an environment where small business can thrive. Our online platform provides a marketplace where investors receive better returns and small businesses find lower rates. The driving force behind our product is our engineering team; we are building elegant, sustainable, and scalable infrastructure on a global scale, and we want you to be a part of it!
Our mission: to build a better financial world.
Prospectus:
Would you describe yourself as a creative and ambitious engineer whoâs always ready to take on the next cutting-edge technology and build scalable infrastructure? If your answer is yes, youâre going to fit right in with our team.
Weâre looking for a passionate and efficiency-driven Senior Platform Engineer who can build automated, testable, and repeatable projects. We are a group of passionate engineers whose bread and butter is learning new technologies and fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment - weâre looking for partners in crime who feel the same.
Be an automator: weâre using cutting-edge technology to facilitate automation and repeatability. We practice continuous integration and are working towards continuous deployment.
Be a builder: our engineers are building and expanding our highly-available architecture to handle over $2 billion in loans originated through our pipeline.
Be a game changer: weâre building infrastructure that has a competitive edge; weâre using technologies like Docker in production on top of Mesos, Kubernetes, and Apache Kafka.
Be a collaborator: youâll be expected to forge deep bonds with your business counterparts to truly understand the needs of our Borrowers and Investors. We work in an Agile environment including pair programming and daily standups.
Be a teacher: be generous with your time and expertise to continue the development of our world-class engineering team.
Our ideal candidate has:
Expert knowledge of working in cloud-based infrastructure (AWS)
Experience using containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)
Expert knowledge of auto scaling, load balancers, proxy servers, DNS, CDNs and WAFs
Capable of architecting security and compliance best practices into global cloud infrastructure
At ease troubleshooting in complex environments using monitoring and logging tools (such as New Relic, Datadog, Graylog and Kibana)
Knowledge of Ansible, Terraform & Go.
Experience with build tools (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI), and artifact repositories (e.g. Quay.io),
Experience working with RDBMS (e.g. PostgreSQL)
Knowledge of using distributed stream processing platforms specifically Apache Kafka
Experience in requirements identification, solution analysis, and product selection
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Brownie points for:
Contributions to open source projects
Advanced networking experience
Security experience
Experience with microservices and event-driven architecture
Experience with data warehouses
Past experience working in a highly-regulated industry
Experience working in global companies with multiple geographies
Why Join Us?
Happy employees are productive employees, thatâs why we offer a hearty benefits package including:
Our employees make our mission a reality, and we want you to share in the companies success by offering generous shares.
Cool kit - Mac or PC
Private healthcare, pension and healthcare cash back schemes
Discounted onsite gym membership
Learning and development through FC Academy
Personal development funding
Flexible working
Free breakfast, barista coffee and discounted hot lunch at our Funderbar!
We are a regular host of Meet-Ups and events.
Company wide socials
At Funding Circle, we celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. Weâre proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. We truly believe that diversity makes us better.