Senior Platform Engineer, Equals
3-5 days a week in office
Payments, cards, and expenses, made simple
Job no longer available
Payments, cards, and expenses, made simple
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
3-5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make money management as simple as possible for their customers.
Role
Who you are
- Node.js
- ES6
- Lambda / Serverless
- AWS
- Github
- Agile best practices
- Software engineering practices like BDD, TDD, Pair Programming etc
- A good communicator, with an open and collaborative approach
- Passionate about writing efficient, clean, and well documented code
- Highly organised; and able to prioritise workload effectively with attention to detail
- Proactive and motivated
- Enjoys working closely with product owners & stakeholders
- Engaged with technology and industry trends
- Curious and motivated by doing the best job you can
- Loves to work in a collaborative environment
- Eager to try new things
- A role model for our values: Make it happen, Succeed together, Be the customer & Go beyond
What the job involves
- We are looking to hire a Senior Platform Engineer to help us bring a ground-breaking new product to market and support and develop our highly successful FairFX product
- Our technology team works in small, cross functional squads - forming part of a fun, hardworking and exceptionally supportive team of around 65 engineers
- Build and maintain NodeJS/ExpressJS applications
- Ensure code quality by writing automated tests, is well tested and written in a maintainable way
- Deploying code to production on a regular basis
- Work with product owners, engineers & other stakeholders to prioritise workstreams
- Monitoring the health of the services we build
- Driving the development, definition and implementation of our products
- Implement features and own the delivery up to the point of it being in our customers hands
- Own the maintenance of features to ensure that future bugs are fixed speedily
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Born in 2005 out of a desire to use technology to give customers a better deal, Equals' mission is to make money simple for everyone. Founded under the name "FairFX", Equals has been helping customers move and manage their money for years. The company consists of three brands, all working together to provide financial solutions for personal and business customers alike.
Having started as a foreign exchange platform, Equals is evolving into a broader money management platform, moving from originally international payments and travel money towards integrated money management solutions for consumers and businesses. The company covers a number of elements: travel, business expenses, personal finance, and payroll.
Equals has built great customer loyalty which has strengthened its position in launching new products, helping it to become a dominant force in the payments market. With a focus on truly understanding the customer's needs, frustrations and ambitions, and the company should see future success, particularly as it looks to expanding its financial services options for customers.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Contributory pension
- Life assurance
- Health insurance through BUPA
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers a 24/7 confidential advice line for health, bereavement and other areas of support
- 25 days holiday per year + your birthday off
- We are members of the cycle to work scheme
- We offer Season Ticket Loans
- Free onsite Nuffield Health gym & pool (London) and discounted gym membership elsewhere
- Interbank currency rates on travel money and international transfers
- Opportunities for progression, development and learning new skills
Company values
- Make it happen - We will own the outcome and execute flawlessly against our plans. We need to deliver our part, and influence others to deliver theirs
- Succeed together - We must pull in the same direction and bring out the best in each other. We need to communicate effectively and adapt together
- Be the customer - We should always be asking ourselves if what we’re doing is making our customers’ lives easier and helping them get more for their money
- Go beyond - We need to care for ourselves and each other, and push ourselves to excel. Every day is a new chance to grow and develop ourselves as well as those around us
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
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Founders
Ian Strafford-Taylor
(CEO)Before launching Equals, Ian was one of the founders of FairFX and was appointed a Director in 2007, Ian has also held a number of senior banking roles at Morgan Stanley and UBS.
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