Backend Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Backend Engineer (Fintech): Building and optimizing highly scalable and secure backend infrastructure for an open banking platform with an accent on API design, microservices, and distributed systems. Focus on developing payment initiation and bank data access products, ensuring high code quality, and driving initiatives in a fast-paced startup environment.

Location: Hybrid in London, UK. Nomad working (up to 30 days per year) is also available.

Company

hirify.global is an early pioneer of open banking, building a powerful, scalable, and secure open banking infrastructure that powers leading companies like Adyen, Intuit QuickBooks, and Google.

What you will do

• Build and maintain highly scalable and secure web applications, services, and APIs.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and stakeholders to gather and refine specifications and requirements.
• Collaborate with Support and CSM functions to troubleshoot and debug customer issues.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality, promote knowledge sharing, and ensure high development standards.
• Write well-structured, reliable, efficient, and easily maintainable code.
• Learn about Open Banking and PSD, and build with the APIs provided.

Requirements

• Experience with Java and Spring Framework.
• Experience with Kubernetes and microservices.
• Ability to comfortably debug a distributed system, for example using distributed tracing.
• Ability to design a RESTful API and understand its pros and cons.
• Possess an API-first product mindset, caring about customer outcomes.
• 5+ years of working experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Comfortable with the pace, ambiguity, and self-starting nature of working in a startup.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working model offering flexibility to work from home, the office, or work abroad for up to 30 days per year ('Nomad Working').
• 25 days holiday a year (plus bank holidays in the UK), with an additional day after 1 year's service, up to 5 days.
• Comprehensive Private Medical Insurance, Life Assurance, Income Protection, and Company Pension Scheme.
• Enhanced Paternity and Maternity leave.
• £200 annual Learning and Personal Development budget.
• Collaborative, curious, and quality-obsessed work environment focused on integrity and action.