Senior Staff Backend Engineer - Financial Crime

Requirements

• You have a track record of technical excellence, delivering resilient systems, ideally behind consumer products
• You have technically led large teams to solve complex product challenges and manage trade-offs.
• You have experience working on Backend Systems, Data-intensive systems or real-world ML deployments
• You have some experience in Financial Crime, Security, Fraud, Trust & Safety or Integrity
• You want to be involved in building and protecting a product that you (and the people you know) use every day
• You have a quantitative mindset: you care about outcomes and you make data-informed decisions
• You’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity and have experience helping your team and partner team resolve that ambiguity
• You think you’d enjoy the kind of work we’re doing

Nice to Haves

• No specific nice to haves mentioned

What You'll Be Doing

• Partner with the Engineering Director supporting the collective and provide technical leadership across all squads.
• Work with the product leadership team of your collective to ensure we are making the right trade-offs across squads.
• Rally your team around a mission, objective or company priority, injecting urgency when needed or slowing down pace to make sure the right controls are in place
• Understand several work-streams across your group keeping enough context to regularly provide technical advice to other engineers
• Use your expert knowledge and experience to lead architectural discussions for the most complex systems in the collective. You’ll do this in order to arrive at solutions that are robust and optimal given the context
• Keep a high bar for technical excellence in the collective, through your own work, highlighting the work of others and calling out when things haven’t quite met the bar
• Foster a culture of quality within your collective. Proactively championing measures to test work, and gets buy-in from stakeholders when this is not appreciated.
• Pro-actively mentor, sponsor and up-level engineers

Perks and Benefits

• 💰£140,000 - £190,000 + share options.
• ✈️ We’ll help you relocate to the UK.
• ✅ We can sponsor your visa.
• 📍This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London)
• ⏰We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.
• 📚£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.
• 🏡We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.
• Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.