Backend Engineer Iii (Fintech)

Location: London office or distributed working within the UK, with occasional meetings in London. Relocation to the UK is supported, and visa sponsorship is available.

Salary: £85,000–£110,000 base salary plus performance-linked incentive awards.

Company

hirify.global is a UK digital bank building personal and business banking products, payments, savings, investments, pensions, and credit services through an in-house banking platform.

What you will do

• Design and build backend services for hirify.global’s banking platform.
• Develop resilient software and distributed systems for customer-facing and internal products.
• Work across payments, finance, security, financial crime, data, and customer operations.
• Use asynchronous messaging, persistent data stores, service orchestration, and cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate across disciplines and make data-informed product decisions focused on customer outcomes.

Requirements

• Strong experience working on the backend of a technology product.
• Experience with strongly typed languages such as Go, Java, C, or Scala.
• Interest in distributed systems and resilient software.
• Product mindset, customer focus, and comfort working with ambiguity.
• Ability to work from within the UK, either remotely or from the London office.

Nice to have

• Experience with Go, Cassandra, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Envoy Proxy, AWS, GCP, or React; prior knowledge is not required.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working hours with meetings kept within core hours.
• Remote and distributed working across the UK, with support for occasional travel to London.
• Part-time working can be arranged where possible.
• £1,000 annual learning budget for books, courses, and conferences.
• Performance-linked incentive awards and additional employee benefits.

Hiring process

• Initial call.
• Take-home task or pair-coding exercise.
• Final interview covering system design and behavioural topics.
• The average process takes around four weeks and can be adapted to candidate availability.