Requirements

Designing and maintaining backend systems, ideally in domains with strong requirements for correctness and reliability
Observability and owning systems in production (monitoring, alerting, incident response, post-mortems)
Distributed systems fundamentals (async workflows, consistency, idempotency, and designing for things going wrong in production)
API design, clear service boundaries, and integrating with external systems in a maintainable way
Data modelling and evolving schemas safely over time
Strong testing practices and a high quality mindset
Clear communication and pragmatic decision-making across teams and stakeholders

What you'll be doing

Drive initiatives to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services (we primarily use Kotlin)
Own and evolve service architecture, APIs, and data models in a financial domain with a high bar for correctness
Build and maintain integrations that enable credit capabilities, and continuously improve reliability and how we run systems in production
Collaborate across teams to deliver end-to-end outcomes, and lead the technical part of cross-team initiatives
Set technical direction for key parts of the backend
Analyse system performance and implement improvements to ensure high reliability and scalability
Raise our engineering bar for correctness through strong engineering practices:
Code reviews, incident follow-ups and post-mortems, and thoughtful ownership
Safe change management (backwards compatibility, feature flags, migrations, rollout plans)
Resilient workflows (idempotency, reconciliation, safe retries)
Proactively identify and reduce technical debt and help guide the team through technical challenges and migrations
Support other engineers through pairing, reviews, and technical guidance
Contribute hands-on in code. You should expect to be coding a meaningful part of the time.

Lead by example and raise the bar with pragmatism and care
Communicate clearly, listen well, and bring people along in decisions
Enjoy breaking down complex problems, gathering input, and driving to a solution
Coach and mentor others and create space for people to grow
Prefer progress over perfection, while still caring deeply about quality

Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
Lunch is on us for your work days - enjoy catered meals or receive a lunch allowance based on your local office
Comprehensive private healthcare - depending on your location, coverage options include Vitality, Alan or Médis
We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
For our Team, we offer both hybrid and fully remote working options
We use MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and well-being support with great success so far
Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work