Senior Software Engineer

Description

• Build and deliver new features end-to-end, from idea to production, in a modern CI/CD environment. • Work across the stack including backend microservices (Clojure, Kafka, AWS, Postgres) to frontend (React Native, React, NextJs). We offer opportunities to specialise or grow as a full-stack engineer. • Collaborate daily with product, design, and engineering colleagues to ship customer-facing features in an agile environment based on Kanban and XP practises such as pair programming and test driven development. • Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, and participate in code reviews. • Contribute to system design discussions and bring ideas to improve scalability and resilience. • Keep learning, diving deeper into banking products, functional programming, mobile frameworks, or cloud infrastructure. • Optionally, contribute back to open source and share knowledge with the wider engineering community.

Requirements

• Professional experience in backend, web or mobile development • Interest in learning Clojure and functional programming. • Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS preferred). • Familiarity with IaC (Terraform/CDK/Pulumi) • Good communication skills in English and ability to work effectively in a distributed Agile team. • A collaborative mindset and passion for building high-quality products • Desirable • Expertise in one of • - any JVM language (Clojure, Java, Kotlin, Scala) • - JavaScript/TypeScript, including; React, React Native, Redux, React Query, NextJs, web accessibility, Storybook. • Experience working in banking, fintech, or other highly regulated industries — understanding payments, compliance, or financial products is a plus.

Benefits

• 21 days of annual leave • Paid National Holidays • 1 Kroo bank holiday (June 24th), and 1 day off during the week of your birthday. • Personal days: We know that life can be unpredictable, so we offer 3 personal days to use as needed. • Mental health support: We care about the mental health of our team members and offer access to Spill, our mental health support partner. • Top-notch equipment: We provide top-of-the-line equipment necessary for smooth hybrid work, including a MacBook laptop. • Room for growth: As a fast-paced, high-growth start-up, we're dedicated to providing our employees with room to grow and excel.

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