Staff Engineer - Credit

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

Your Colleagues Would Say You

• 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

Perks and Benefits

• 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