Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)

As a key member of our Tech team you’ll be building out our Backend of high-performance, scalable and robust Scala microservices on AWS.

You’ll be reporting directly to our CTO and will be responsible for hands-on development as well as leadership and mentoring of junior team members.

This is a fast-paced role in a rapidly growing fintech. Our partners include some of the largest and well known pension and fintech brands in the UK.

You’ll need to be a self-starter who can adapt and learn quickly. We’re a small team, so there’ll be plenty of opportunities to develop your skills in other areas that interest you (e.g. Data, DevOps, Performance, Security, Frontend, etc).

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement microservices in collaboration with Product Managers, Frontend Engineers and our Partners. - Participate in the design of our architecture and the evolution of our technology stack.
• Ensure high code quality through peer reviews and continuous improvement.
• Develop innovative solutions to complex business problems.
• Own services from creation through to Production.

Key Skills:

• Expertise in Scala or an equivalent functional programming language.
• Experience working with effect types like Cats Effect or ZIO (we use CE3).
• Knowledge of API contract design, for both internal and customer facing REST APIs.
• Ability to build resilient, high-availability systems.
• Experience of testing at Unit, Integration and End-to-end level.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines for build, deployment, etc. (we use GitHub Actions).
• Experience of working with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc).
• Great communication skills and the ability to break through complexity.

Nice to Have:

• Experience of messaging technologies (SQS, SNS, Kafka, Kinesis, etc).
• Understanding of containerisation technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of the Smithy Interface Description Language and Smithy4s.
• Experience of Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Besom/Pulumi and Terraform/OpenTofu.
• Experience of building services in or migrating services to Scala 3.
• Knowledge of Akka/Pekko HTTP (we’re mid-way through a migration to http4s).
• Experience or an interest in Performance Testing.
• Knowledge of or an interest in Category theory.
• Passion for technological innovation – particularly in the finance space.
• Previous experience working in start-up or scale-up.
• Knowledge of Agile Development practices (e.g. Scrum, Kanban).

Benefits:

• Fully remote working
• Flexible working hours
• A budget for learning and development
• The chance to take on high levels of responsibility relative to the opportunities one would have in corporates and drive the future of our pension finding service
• The ability to scale up your own career within a fast-growing start-up
• Equity at a fast-growing start-up