About the job
People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, we have been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products — including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more — help our 80+ million customers get more from their money every day.
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As we continue our lightning-fast growth, two things are essential to our success: our people and our culture. In recognition of our outstanding employee experience, we've been certified as a Great Place to Work™. So far, we have 13,000+ people working around the world, from our offices and remotely, to help us achieve our mission.
About The Role
Our Technology team builds the systems and experiences that keep us moving. From the infrastructure behind our innovative app to the features used by millions of people around the world, they bring sharp thinking, speed, and a focus on meaningful impact to everything they do.
We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to contribute to our core backend systems, from the event store to the underlying transactional infrastructure that other members of the Engineering team work on.
Whatever you ship at this layer ends up being used across the whole company, so a small improvement here can save a lot of time for the team later. Up to shape what's next in finance? Let's get in touch.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Building and scaling our core systems
- Writing high-throughput, concurrent code at production scale
- Working on problems that affect multiple teams across Engineering
- Reviewing code and helping other engineers with system design
What You'll Need
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, maths, physics, or similar field
- Production fluency in Java, or expertise in another backend language (Kotlin, Scala, Python, Go etc) and a readiness to work primarily in Java
- A track record of building core systems or foundational platforms that other engineers built on top of
- Distributed systems experience at a meaningful scale
- The ability to work well as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
- Fluency in English
Nice to have
- A background in fintech or other high-volume transactional environment
- Experience in a startup or scale-up
- Event sourcing in production
- Open-source contributions to frameworks, libraries, or developer tooling
Building a global financial super app isn’t enough. Our employees are a priority, and that’s why in 2021 we launched our inaugural D&I Framework, designed to help us thrive and grow every day. We're not just doing this because it's the right thing to do. We’re doing it because we know that seeking out diverse talent and creating an inclusive workplace is the way to create exceptional, innovative products and services for our customers. That’s why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join this multicultural, hard-working team.
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