Senior Backend Engineer | Senior Software Developer | Senior Java Engineer
A London based fintech is building infrastructure for other financial businesses to run on the kind of company that does not need consumers to know its name in order to grow. It is venture backed, has closed two rounds (the most recent earlier this year), is generating real revenue from real customers, and has reached the point in its life where the founders are no longer hiring to fill seats. They are hiring, very deliberately, for the next ten years of the codebase.
The brief, in short is a senior backend engineer to work in Java alongside the CTO and a small group of long tenured engineers. The shape of the work is closer to early stage architecture than late stage maintenance. The expectation is end-to-end ownership of meaningful pieces of the platform, design decisions, trade offs, the lot, with the autonomy that comes with that and the accountability that follows it. Re...