Senior Software Engineer - Remote

Location City of London
Discipline: Fintech, Software Engineering, Energy & Technology
Job type: Contract
Salary: ££600 Outside IR35
Published: 3 months ago
Startdate: ASAP

We Are Hiring! Our mission is to build the lending infrastructure for the web. We are a FinTech that enables marketplaces and payment companies to offer their sellers fast and fair business financing and earn a revenue share. We are backed by several famous angels, unicorn founder-turn-investors and many of London’s top venture funds.

Our founders are technical experts with >10 years each in Credit, Tech and Data; ex Goldman Sachs, Iwoca, and Morgan Stanley & more.

We are highly invested in you. Besides attractive compensation, our priority is that your work and opinions will be treated with equal importance as the founders’ themselves. The role carries a significant high-risk, high-reward nature. Join us in building a leading credit API for a 7 trillion dollar market while enjoying a fun, challenging, and rewarding journey.

Our tech:

  • Backend services using Node.js and Python

  • PostgreSQL, Redis for data storage

  • Kubernetes and Docker to run our services

  • AWS, for most of our infrastructure

  • Typescript, React, Next.js, TailwindCSS for frontend

  • OpenAPI REST for our public APIs, GraphQL for our internal API

    We offer:

  • Competitive salary & significant equity

  • 100% remote, and if you wish, with options to work from our London office

  • Opportunity to be a founding member, developing and later leading the engineering team

  • Flexible working hours

  • Learning budget

You will:

  • Take ownership of a significant part of the system

  • Influence the technical direction of the company

  • Design, develop, and ship resilient distributed systems

    Requirements:

  • 5 years+ professional experience in software engineering

  • Product focus, understanding the impact on the end-user

  • Experience designing and building APIs

  • Good understanding of relational databases

  • Ability to write code that’s testable, readable and easy to reason about

  • Passion for learning and growing in a fast-moving startup environment

    Not required, but great to see:

  • Experience working with a public API

  • Previous experience in FinTech

  • Open-source contributions

    Culture fit: Our founding engineer’s ideal fit is someone with an entrepreneurial spirit. This means:

  • You have the experience

  • You crave ownership

  • You’re okay with ambiguity

  • You’re multidisciplinary

  • You operate at light speed