Golang Fintech Jobs in United Kingdom

Job Description

About the Role

Zero Hash is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help architect and build new features, as well as scaling the gateway to Finance 2.0. We are a high performing team looking for an equally ambitious and driven teammate.

The right candidate for this position is detail oriented, deeply technical, and driven. You are eager to learn new technologies and complex systems. You build resiliency and scalability into the platform at every step.

If you're looking to have a massive impact in a high-growth startup in one of the most exciting markets in decades, you will find this role challenging and rewarding in equal measure.

This fully remote role is open to candidates in any EMEA timezone.

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Responsibilities

• Support the company’s vital business by contributing to the design and
  development of software in an event-driven microservices environment
• Develop microservices in Golang and Python
• Work with platform engineers to setup new services
• Respond to production issues and alerts
• When necessary, communicate directly with client technical teams

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience, preferably in the FinTech space
• A humble and scrappy get-it-done mindset; you’re resourceful and in your
  element going from 0 to 1
• Excellent problem solving skills - can troubleshoot complex systems
• Deep Proficiency with at least one of Python and Golang and experience with
  the other.
• Understanding of SQL and database schema design
• Comfort with ambiguity; the ability to independently lay out and test clear
  hypotheses and solve problems without well-defined direction
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred

• Bachelors in computer science or equivalent experience
• Experience with the SciPy stack, specifically Pandas
• Experience at a banking-as-a-service, brokerage-as a service, payment-as-a- service business
• An understanding around financial services reconciliation tools
• Experience with digital assets
• Experience with yield-generating products

Benefits Offered

We believe that the best way to succeed is by having a happy, motivated and healthy team. We offer the following benefits:

• Healthcare Insurance: Zero Hash covers roughly 100% of employee premiums as well as a portion of spouse/children
• Vision & Dental Insurance
• Mental Health and Wellness Program
• Work equipment
• Equity Ownership and Early Exercise
• Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Educational budget of $1000
• WFH stipend of $500
• WeWork All Access Membership
• Visa Sponsorship
• 401k

About Zero Hash

Zero Hash is a B2B embedded infrastructure platform that allows any platform to integrate digital assets natively into their own customer experience quickly and easily (a matter of API endpoints). We power neo-banks, broker-dealers, and payment groups to offer digital asset trading and custody, crypto-backed rewards and round-ups programs as well as yield through staking and DeFi and NFTs.

Our thesis is very simple: every financial services firm will offer digital assets within the next 2 years and will do so through platforms such as Zero Hash. Zero Hash is defining the new FinTech vertical of digital-assets-as-a-service.

Clients include MoneyLion, Wirex, Deserve, MoonPay, Tastytrade. Backed by Point72 Ventures, NYCA, Bain Capital, Tastytrade.

The Zero Hash Culture

All Zero Hash employees are guided by the following characteristics and core principles:

• Independence/Ownership - An ability to work autonomously. Join Zero Hash, pitch ideas, and shape the work you do.
• Passion - We are innovating quickly and challenging the status quo. We want you to think big, be creative and ​make a difference every day.
• Collaborative - A good attitude and respect for others. We’re teammates, not co-workers. Everything we do is a shared success and equally a shared failure - we talk in terms of “we” not “me”.
• Initiative - An ability and passion for learning and asking questions. We will champion you, challenge you and push you to achieve your best - and we expect you to do the same.
• Empathy - An ability to listen, respect, and understand your co-workers, customers, and everyone you interact with no matter how different they are to you.
• Adaptability - An ability to respond quickly. We are in a fast-paced industry and so we expect you to be creative when solving a new problem and comfortable under pressure.
• Transparency - We believe that transparency is critical to empowering everyone to make the best decisions, both the company to its people and vice versa.
• Integrity - Integrity creates trust. As both an organization collectively and as individuals, it is our most valuable asset.

Job Description

Juni who? 👋

We’re Juni. The fastest-growing fintech startup in Europe. We’re born remote, built for remote work, and busy building the future of financial services for ecommerce entrepreneurs.

What we do 🤔

Think of us as the financial companion made for ecommerce. We’re building an all-in-one platform that helps ecommerce entrepreneurs understand their business better, improve decision-making, scale up, and unlock the full potential of ecommerce. We even finance their working capital to help achieve their goals and dream up new ones.

How & why we do it 🚀

We give our people the same thing we’re building for our customers: freedom. Freedom to work wherever there’s good Wi-Fi. Freedom to be 100% yourself. Freedom to explore your potential and what’s more – make the most of it. We truly believe we’re making the world a better place for ecommerce, and we want you to be a part of that mission.

Your role 🙋

Tackle convoluted problems and develop clean, stable solutions that scale. The ideal candidate would be someone who has a genuine passion for designing and implementing elegant software solutions. They would also be intimately familiar (and up to date) with their development ecosystem for making sound decisions when it comes to choosing the right tool or library for the job. We expect our engineers to be able to contribute across the entire product stack, as well as collectively oversee the integrity of the codebase.

Your responsibilities 💪

In this role you’ll be: - Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code - Translating software requirements into stable, working, high-performance software - Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward efficient microservices distributed architecture

Within 1 month you'll:

• Introduce an important architectural improvement to our Go codebase

Within 3 months you'll:

• Help other web backend engineers say they’re learning a lot and are more productive because of you
• Have helped us build new features quicker than we otherwise would have - our velocity has increased significantly

Within 6 months you'll:

• Help introduce significant new features which radically improve our product.
• Impact the quality of the product, getting to the point where we fix all bugs and are improving performance metrics
• Be proud of the product and the codebase

Your qualifications 👨‍🎓

What we need to see: - Experience developing, monitoring, and improving microservice architectures - Knowledge of designing and implementing public and private APIs (gRPC/REST) - Experience with CI/CD - Great communication skills in English

What we’d love to see:

• Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms (we are open to candidates who have strong programming knowledge in other languages but want to work in Go!)
• Knowledge of security and/or devops best practices
• Experience within the Payments domain

Your tool stack 💻

Mac. Chrome. Even… Windows. Choose the hardware that helps you work best. We’ll also support whatever software you need. From Miro to Slack and everything in between.

Tech stack

• React, Javascript/Typescript
• Go
• gRPC (Protocol buffers)
• PostgreSQL, Redis
• Kafka
• Docker, Kubernetes
• AWS

Your people 👥

Forget office-based culture. This is people-first culture. We’re real. We never wait. We care deeply about building a better future for our customers and each other in a way that's never been done before. Here, you can work with people at the top of their game and who didn’t get there by playing games. You can help us change business for ecommerce entrepreneurs, change the world – wherever in the world you may be.

Your benefits 😍

• We’re born remote-first. Transparent. Caring. Empowering. So our benefits are too.
• Hello work. Meet freedom. Join us anywhere within 6 hours of Sweden time zone.
• Swap 2D for 3D. Meet the team IRL at two in-person onsites per year.
• Diversity is at our core. We're Part Swedish. Part Canadian. Part French. Part Malaysian. Part Italian. Part Nigerian. Part British. Part Turkish. You get the idea.
• Great players can stay great players. Progress your career whether you choose to manage people or not.
• Happiness stipend. The best things in life are free. But money can buy you a herd of puppies. Get €8,500 per year to spend on whatever makes you happy.
• Work al desko. Get €500 a month towards a co-working space.
• Stock options. We can’t promise you’ll make a fortune. But we’ll give it our very best shot.
• Vacation days. At least 30 per year as standard. Awesome.
• Global health insurance. You know. Just in case.
• Get sick? No stress. Feel better with unlimited paid sick leave.
• We are here for you. Unlimited access to mental health support via Spill.
• Work with the best people for the job. Not the best people within 1 hour’s commute.
• Get support to switch things up. People change. Careers can too.

Free your nine to five 🤘

Hit apply and help us revolutionise financial services for ecommerce entrepreneurs.

The process 📅

CV screening > Get to know us call > Team interview(s) > Values interview > Offer (for some roles we’ll include a task, but we’ll notify you if this is the case)

Job Description

About Us

We are honu.ai, a venture backed startup building the next generation platform to give small business owners superhuman decision making capabilities. We are currently in stealth mode and are backed by Europe’s top investors who are early backers of (TransferWise, Tide, Coinbase, CityMapper, Cazoo, Nested, Habito, Cleo, King, Snyk, etc.). The technology we are building is novel and we will be pushing the boundaries of what has been done in this space.

The Role

We are looking for a strong, product focused, growth mindset software engineer to join our core-team. If you are excited to join a VC-backed startup early on in the journey, and your profile matches what we are looking for, please do get in touch. Here is a non-exhaustive description of the tasks and responsibilities for this role:

• You will be working in small team, including the founder, to build the first MVP of the product.
• You will collaborate with the team to define the strategy and vision for how we will build effectively and be successful.
• Work with engineers across the company to build delightful features that span various parts of the system.
• Ensure our platforms are reliable, scalable, secure and extensible.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

Ideal Candidate

• Experience shipping high-quality products from start to finish. Ideally, experience at top tier SaaS startups/companies.
• Experience building Fintech products. e-Commerce and experience with small businesses is a huge plus!
• 2+ years professional experience in Golang. Rust, Kotlin or Java, nice to have.
• Product focused
• Experience with modern cloud tooling
• Nice to have technical experience in:
  • Python, React, Typescript
  • Data engineering
  • Linux administration
  • API integrations
  • Experience with distributed systems
• Must have soft skills:
  • Intellectual Humility
  • Growth Mindset
  • Attention to detail
  • Team Player
  • Good communicator
• Ways of working:
  • You will believe in clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing and continuous deployment.
  • comfortable with Remote/Async ways of working.
• Be a self-starter who is very comfortable building from scratch.

Company Values

• Excellence: We constantly strive for excellence in what we do. We go above and beyond the call of duty.
• Get Things Done: We acknowledge obstacles but orient towards solutions. We have a getting things done attitude, with laser focus on efficiency, as a team and individuals.
• Open Communication: We communicate openly and respectfully about our opinions. Our conversations are constructive and all voices will be heard. However, when decisions are made, everyone commits to them.
• Team Player: We are there for each other. As individuals we are reliable, responsible, collaborative and supportive. We respect each other’s time, we are punctual. We have got each others backs, and **accept everyone’s authentic self.
• High Integrity: We are honest with each other and with our partners, clients and collaborators.

How to Apply

Email your CV, and any relevant links (we aim to respond in no more than 2 working days)

Our Process (1-2 weeks)

1. Introductory phone call with Founder ( 30 mins )
2. CV / Experience review - panel (1 hour)
3. Systems Design interview - panel (1 hour)

We are growing fast and will be sure to respect your time and expectations each step of the way.

Job Description

We're Checkout.com

We're building the connected finance businesses deserve. Unleashing them with tomorrow's technology, today. Our flexible payments solutions help global enterprises — like Samsung, Deliveroo and Adidas — 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 — 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, gRPC…), 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.

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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, we’ve 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.

Job Description

Our Mission🚀

Bud's mission is simple. We're here to create the world’s 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 Mission👨‍🚀👩‍🚀

You’ll be leading the development of some of Bud’s 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 you’re responsible for. You’ll be contributing to Bud-wide architecture as well as actively developing in Bud’s Platform & Security [Product] Team where you’ll be the driving software engineering force in the team (which is mostly composed of SRE/Platform Engineers). You’ll 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 you’ll 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 you’re 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
• You’ve 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

We’re 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 – 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 we’re 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. That’s what we’re working towards.

We believe that diversity will make us better.

Bud’s mission is to make the money part of people’s 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 💰

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 📈

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 🏋️‍♀️🧘‍♂️

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 £50 monthly flexible wellbeing allowance which can be used towards your own wellness, whether that’s a gym membership, meal-box subscription, massages or something else!

Learning & Development 📚

As part of our commitment to developing our people, all employees at Bud have an annual £500 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 that’s inspired you, either independently or as part of a collaborative team.

Flexible Working ⏳

As a trusted member of the Bud, you’ll 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 🏖️

We’re 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 💻

We want to make sure everyone is set up to work effectively and comfortably - so you’ll get to choose your own kit, including any additional equipment you might need to work from home.

Social 💃🕺

We’re 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 we’ve stepped up our virtual social scene with quiz nights, virtual cocktail making, book clubs, and online workouts.

Commuting 🚇

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 🏦

We believe in helping our staff save for retirement, with Bud matching pension contributions up to 5%

Job Description

Our Mission🚀

Bud's mission is simple. We're here to create the world’s 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 Mission👨‍🚀👩‍🚀

You’ll 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 you’d enjoy then we’d 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 you’re 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 £55,000-£75,000 per annum + 5% options on equity which vests over 3 years, with a 1 year cliff.

What are the perks?

🏖 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays)! You can carry up to 5 over the following year if you wish.

🧘‍♂️🧘Health and Wellbeing Allowance! We have a monthly allowance of £50 for all employees to use towards wellbeing activities such as classes or a gym membership.
👩‍💻👨‍💻Flexible 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.

💰We match up to 5% of your salary in our pension plan.

🎒You’ll be provided with a brand new MacBook or PC, and any computer accessories you need so you’ll have the best tools for the job!

🚆Season Ticket loan

🌱 The biggest motivation for people is learning and developing, our people have up to £500 per annum of learning and development opportunities funded by Bud.

🤹‍♂️🤹‍♀️ 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

We’re 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 – 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 we’re 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. That’s what we’re working towards.

We believe that diversity will make us better

Bud’s mission is to create the world’s 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.

Job Description

Credit Kudos is a venture-backed fintech startup and challenger credit bureau that uses financial behaviour to measure creditworthiness. Our technology transforms the way credit checking and credit scores work by generating a more accurate and holistic view of a borrower's creditworthiness. We’re working with lenders to help them make better, fairer credit decisions and with consumers to help them access fair, affordable credit.

We’re building a credit bureau the right way - with the customer involved and transparent throughout. We’re looking for talented and creative engineers who share our vision.

We're looking for ambitious engineers

Our company is growing and we're searching for the next generation of experienced engineers to both help shape and nurture our engineering culture as we grow and deliver high-quality products for the benefit of the whole population.

We have people with backgrounds in massive companies, small companies, and a couple for whom this is their first job. We’re looking for people who want to learn and grow as much as lead and coach; if that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

We work closely together as a company

We’re a small team with a big vision, so no-one specialises too much - we wear many hats week-to-week. We’re grappling with a large problem so there are plenty of challenges to be faced but we face them one sprint at a time. Your role here would see you working with the founders of the company and the rest of the team on a wide range of issues to bring our vision of a better credit bureau to reality.

You can work with a host of great technologies

To give you a flavour of our technical stack, we use:

• Golang and Ruby on Rails for our core applications and APIs
• Python for our data processing + science
• TypeScript with React and Redux for most of our front-end flows
• Brand new Open Banking APIs for collecting financial data
• Postgres for our data storage
• Docker for running everything reliably
• AWS for all our infrastructure (managed as code via Terraform)

Should you apply?

(Yes!) We’re looking for people who:

• are excited by the work we’re doing
• would like to be engaged in meaningful work
• are comfortable bottoming out problems in open discussion
• are interested in building a data-oriented company
• love writing elegant and well-tested software
• have experience building distributed systems

What we value:

• Motivation, enthusiasm and passion for our mission to take on the big credit bureaus
• Expansive thinking, transparency, honesty and a good sense of humour
• Results and efficiency rather than hours in the office

**What you’ll get: **

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Flexible working arrangements, generous leave and a dog-friendly office. See full list of benefits - plus a bit more about working for us - here
• A ton of support, but an opportunity to run your own schedule and role
• The opportunity to develop your role and responsibilities as the company grows

Job Description

Thought Machine is solving one of the biggest problems in banking. Since launching in 2014, our mission has been to liberate banks from outdated, legacy technology which stifles their ability to innovate. Thought Machine’s core product Vault is a cloud native, core banking engine built to run any type of bank - from established Tier 1 banks all the way to new challenger banks.

To move closer to achieving our mission, we are looking for highly talented individuals to join the fast growing team. With a founding team drawn from Google, we have a deep culture of engineering excellence and we believe it is this which delivers a solution compelling enough to engender a seismic shift in the banking industry.

Thought Machine was recognised on LinkedIn’s Top Startups List (2019) and named in Fintech 50 (2019). We pride ourselves on having an excellent internal culture, where we take cultural fit as important as technical fit when we make new hires. At Thought Machine, we strive hard to create a fast-paced, supportive and fun working environment to enable the team to produce the best technical work in the industry.

Back End Engineering is a key role within Thought Machine as Back End Engineers lead the development of Thought Machine’s Vault product. We pride ourselves in excellence in this role, adopting the best practices in continuous deployment monorepo style development.

While development at Thought Machine is fast paced, you will be expected to develop code to a high standard and production ready state.

DUTIES

• Designing, implementing and developing scalable, performant microservices using best practices.
• Writing automated unit tests, integration tests, etc.
• Interfacing with other engineering teams to ensure that features are added in a structured and coherent way.
• Managing and debugging your deployments from testing environments all the way to production.
• Translating customer requirements into trackable tickets.

Requirements

Essential:

• Experience in either Python or Golang.
• Experience in developing automated tests as an integral part of the development cycle.
• Interest in working on client-facing projects, conducting scoping and defining deliverables.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of banking / finance.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud providers.
• Familiar with databases (SQL or noSQL).
• Experience with client/server software architectures & networking, or microservice architectures.
• Experience using orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or Mesos.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Pension plan (match up to 7%)
• Life Insurance- 3 times annual salary
• Excellent Maternity and Paternity leave
• Shared parental leave
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Private health insurance with Bupa for you and your family
• Health cash plan (including dental & optical)
• Flexible working hours
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Access to exceptional learning materials and courses
• Onsite gym, membership subsidised by Thought Machine
• Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine
• All the latest tech you need
• Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals
• Huge range of healthy (and not so healthy) snacks, smoothies, juice, tea, coffee, soft and alcoholic drinks on tap
• A talented & experienced team as your colleagues
• An environment where we encourage learning and progress
• Weekly food pop up
• Monthly social with arcade games

Thought Machine is committed to making a measurable positive impact on people's everyday lives. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We actively hire for cultural growth. We welcome people of all ages, backgrounds and value people who take a journey unique to them. We provide everyone with equal access to professional development. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description.

Job Description

ABOUT

Headquartered in London, the FinTech capital of the world, Form3 are building the most exciting banking technology company on the planet. Our mission is simple: transform payments technology to enable the global financial community to move money in real-time.

CULTURE

Being a tech-first business, we place emphasis on thinking outside-the-box. By utilising the latest cloud-native technologies we find innovative solutions to problems that others would deem unsolvable. We live and breathe open-source, prioritise best-practice and automation while Slack is at the heart of everything we do.

We advocate a positive work-life balance and offer a super flexible, remote-friendly working environment. We don’t mind whereabouts our Engineers are based as we are happy for our team to work from anywhere in the UK or EU, with most of them choosing to work remotely most of the time. However, we also have offices in London and Amsterdam, so should they ever wish to work from these, they are most welcome.

ENGINEERING TEAM

Our Engineering Team consists of over thirty-five Senior Engineers that are responsible for the end-to-end ownership of our platform, from architecture through to infrastructure. Individually they are all exceptional at what they do, but by working collaboratively within a team, consistently applying best-practice and automating absolutely everything they build world-class software for our customers.

There are a wide range of problems to tackle as an Engineer at Form3, from configuring nginx proxies to writing custom payment routing and handling logic. It’s very much a “best tool for the job” mentality here and our tech-stack is forever evolving. Our primary programming language is Go however we do have some services written using Java, Python and Ruby.

TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT

AWS, Microservices, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault, Consul, Linkerd, Elasticsearch, Clean Code, TDD, BDD, Pair Programming, Agile, Kanban, Scrum

APPLY IF

We are looking to speak with Senior Engineers that are EU citizens and based in the UK or Europe with;

• Experience or interest in Go programming language

• Understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing

• Appreciate the **DevOps **culture and the value of automation

• Place emphasis on code quality, BDD/TDD and software development best-practice

• Are passionate about technology and enjoy working collaboratively within a team

• Have a breadth of experience across a variety of programming languages

For more information on Form3 please visit our website or take a look at our company profiles on StackOverflow, GitHub and LinkedIn.

Perks & Benefits

• 100% remote working • 30 days annual leave (plus Bank Holidays) • Great tech-stack, challenging projects and an exceptional team of Senior Engineers to work alongside • Regular paid trips to London to spend time with our awesome team • Tech-first FinTech scale-up with limitless possibilities to progress your career

Interview Process

1. Screening call with Talent Team (30 minutes)

2. Take home test (4 - 6 hours)

3. Technical interview (1 hour and 30 minutes)

Job Description

About us

Tumelo is a purpose-led financial technology company, providing transparency and influence for investors who want to have impact with their money.

• We believe in a financial system that serves both people and planet.
• Over the last year, we’vebeen building aplatform that creates value-aligned investments for people like us (environmentalists, feminists, tech enthusiasts...) and giving those people their right to a shareholder voice.
• We are an FCA authorised financial institution and are at our most exciting stage of development as our app goes live in the market.

About the role

• You will work on our backend with a slew of phenomenal new technologies including Golang, gRPC-based microservices, Kubernetes, Terraform, Amazon Cognito, the Google Cloud Platform and GitLab CI. Our mobile app is built in React Native.
• You will be a foundational team member, contributing your experiences and ideas to enhance the growth and development of our team and general product direction, especially at this critical stage in our development.
• You will contribute significantly to the architecture definition, design, development, testing and maintenance of Tumelo’s backend services and back office web portal.
• You will ensure software is appropriately tested at all stages of the development and deployment cycles, including identifying opportunities for making our test and CI processes evermore effective and efficient, and you will help with the implementation of improvements to those systems.
• You will work in an agile team, actively participating in scrum-based ceremonies to translate business and user requirements into stories; writing and refining.

About you

• You are an exceptional individual who encapsulates our company values: open hearts, ambition, bring the magic, long-term thinking & thoughtful listening.
• You are passionate about software development and enthusiastic about projects you work on, especially about learning new stuff and pushing your own boundaries.
• You love working collaboratively in a small team and are a brilliant, proactive communicator.
• You have at least 5 years of experience in design and development of large-scale software solutions, especially microservices.
• You have a good working knowledge of Golang, ideally having used it successfully in a commercial environment, though we are also open to strong developers from other backgrounds who are eager for an opportunity to extend their Golang skills.

Find out more from the full job spec; https://www.tumelo.com/jobs/go-dev.pdf

Perks & Benefits

🏝 25 days holiday

💰 Share options

⛵️ Celebrate your way. We let employees choose how they want to celebrate success. We're going to the beach this month!

Interview Process

• Send an email to us at [email protected]
• We'll read and reply to every application we receive
• A chat over coffee/the phone
• 1.5 hour in-person interview where we'll cover culture and technical stuff plus introduce you to the rest of the team.