Software Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Software Engineer (Fintech): Building and optimizing core product pillars, including banking domain features (onboarding, transaction monitoring, ledgers, payment rails) or SaaS app features (invoicing, webhooks, roles and permissions), with an accent on individual contribution and hands-on skills in a high-trust, high-autonomy environment. Focus on architecting, building, and running end-to-end features using a Clojure-based backend stack.

Location: Remote within the UK, or onsite in London

Company

hirify.global is a technology platform and a fully regulated, API-first, developer-centric bank purpose-built to serve innovative fintechs and brands looking to embed financial products.

What you will do

• Build out core product pillars as a backend engineer, contributing to one of the Craft teams (Banking, Infrastructure, Onboarding and Financial Crime, Payments, Platform, Cards, or Tooling).
• Develop banking domain features such as onboarding, transaction monitoring, ledgers, or payment rails.
• Implement 'normal' SaaS app features like invoicing, webhooks, or roles and permissions.
• Discover, shape, architect, build, test, and run end-to-end features in a cross-functional team.
• Focus primarily on individual contribution with strong hands-on skills.

Requirements

• At least two years' professional experience, open to strong mid-level to lead engineers.
• Experience with functional programming, ideally Clojure, but also open to Scheme, Haskell, Erlang, Elixir, or Scala.
• Strong distributed systems background or healthy full-stack exposure (experience integrating front and backends).
• Experience collaborating with Product Managers and UX/UI Designers to build customer-centric products.
• Must be comfortable working from anywhere in the UK or from the London office.

Nice to have

• Experience with their existing stack: Bazel, FoundationDB, Kubernetes, and AWS.
• Previous work in relevant domains such as banking, payments, billing, or wider fintech.
• Experience working with small teams, ideally in fast-paced start-up environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first, asynchronous, and fully flexible working environment.
• High-trust, high-autonomy culture with transparency and encouragement for open discussion.
• Support for two progression paths: individual contribution and people leadership.
• Commitment to building a supportive, empowering, and inclusive environment.
• Small London office available in Moorgate for occasional commuting.

Hiring process

• Initial conversation with a member of the Talent team.
• Take-home task to assess writing and Clojure coding skills.
• Discussion of the task, software engineering craftsmanship, and past experience with an engineering leader.
• Deep technical topics, system design skills, and API knowledge discussion with peers.
• hirify.global culture interview with non-Engineering team members and an opportunity to meet a founder.