Backend Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Backend Engineer (Fintech): Building event-driven solutions and democratizing data access across technology teams with an accent on cloud-native data and event streaming solutions. Focus on safely replacing legacy workflows with event-driven architecture and mentoring engineering teams.

Location: Hybrid (Manchester, UK). Minimum of 50% of your working time per month spent in the office. Initial period of full-time office working required.

Company

hirify.global is a UK’s investment platform business, providing solutions for everyone, from professional financial advisers to first-time investors.

What you will do

• Build solutions that democratise access to data and events.
• Be responsible for the full software lifecycle.
• Deliver solutions in a complex and fast-moving environment.
• Mentor other engineers and agile teams to industrialise innovation.
• Continuous improvement, refinement and refactoring.

Requirements

• Strong experience in developing services and APIs using C# and/or Java.
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Secure development practices.
• Git-based source control.
• Knowledge of CI automation systems such as Jenkins.

Nice to have

• Event streaming (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis) and change data capture (CDC).
• Messaging (e.g. RabbitMQ, SQS).
• Docker and Kubernetes.
• Solution and architecture design.
• Test-driven development (TDD).
• AWS cloud infrastructure (ECS, EKS, CodePipeline, RDS, CloudWatch).
• Previous experience working in e-commerce and/or financial services.
• Experience using GenAI tools, such as GitHub Copilot

Culture & Benefits

• 25 days holiday, increasing with service + buy/sell scheme + bank holidays.
• 6% Pension with matched contributions.
• Discretionary bonus scheme.
• Share schemes (including free shares and BAYE).
• Health Cash Plan and discounted private healthcare.
• Free onsite gym.
• Friendly, supportive team environment.