Senior Backend Engineer, Bits
4-5 days a week in office (Camden Town, London )
Store card for building credit
Job no longer available
Store card for building credit
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
4-5 days a week in office (Camden Town, London )
21-100 employees
Company mission
To promote financial inclusion by providing a path to credit for those neglected by mainstream lenders.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field preferred
- Minimum 4 years of experience with JavaScript and/or Typescript, Nodejs
- Minimum 7 years of experience with AWS services (Api gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS etc)
- Core software engineering skills, including the ability to write maintainable, testable and robust code
- Experience designing and implementing clean APIs following REST or GraphQL concepts for integration of user-facing elements developed by app developers with server side logic
- Experience in taking product requirements and building scalable, reliable solutions
- Ability to track the health of our services, identify and fix problems proactively
- Programming experience with Node.js, JavaScript and/or Typescript including object-oriented design
- Experience in developing highly scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems using AWS
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
Desirable
- Experience with AWS Serverless services such as Lambda, API Gateway, AppSync or DynamoDB
- Experience with low-latency, high-availability, and performant APIs
- Experience with event driven architectures
- Experience with system and application monitoring, software distribution, patching and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be a key member of the product team, and will work with the Founder / CEO and Engineering Lead
- You are expected to utilise your experience with architecting, developing and supporting distributed & scalable systems running on AWS with hands-on coding experience in a modern object-oriented language
- The ideal candidate is expected to show leadership principles including excellent judgement and high standards on software delivery
- In addition, the candidate is expected to have the ability to dive deep and gather business requirements, drive best practices in the team and deliver results
- Joining our team provides unique challenges and opportunities to deliver software that benefits many customers from day one
- Design, prototype and implement new features end to end
- Work directly with the Founder / CEO, our Product and Design team
- Help develop guidelines and best coding practices for our growing dev team
- See the effects of your work make real-world impact
- Organise our product design and development workflow, from conception to delivery, using an Agile methodology
- Be responsible for the full life-cycle of product development
- Collaborate with product and development teams across multiple projects
- Manage project scope, backlog and timelines
- Facilitate regular team meetings: stand-ups, sprint plannings, retros etc
- Proactively identify and help fix any problems and roadblocks
- Training, mentoring, and supporting teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices
- Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items
- Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements
- Planning and organising demos and product/system testing
- Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the team
- Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials
- Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders
Application process
- A take home AWS technical challenge
- Live Coding challenge and interview with an Engineer
- Interview with Head of HR
- A final interview with CEO
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Oftentimes, the advice to those with low credit is to build it up with the careful use of high-interest credit cards. However, this comes with the obvious downside of being high risk as well as high reward. Bits, instead, helps people with low credit to improve their scores with a subscription store card that lets them access in-store savings while quickly raising their credit score.
Millions of people in the UK have difficulty accessing financial services due to their credit scores, so it is no surprise that a number of other startups like Pockit and Portify have emerged offering alternative products for this underserved group. Bits, however, stands out for its unique approach that doesn’t put people into any debt at all - with the company making no money on interest.
As Bits has grown, it has expanded its product and now reports to Equifax and TransUnion on top of Experian. Boasting 300,000 users and a strong rating on Trustpilot, it is clear the company has already made an impact and it will be interesting to see what it does in the future.
Freddie
Company Specialist
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Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2020
$0.2m
SEED
Oct 2018
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $0.4m
Company benefits
- Free fruit in the office
- 28 days holiday, including bank/national holidays
- Laptop and phone of your choosing
- Regular team meals
- Team socials
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
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Leadership
Faisal Khalid
(CEO)A Harvard graduate in Economics, Faisal has over a decade of experience in major payment companies such as American Express. More recently, they founded Paysnapp, an online payment service for low income migrant workers which was acquired by VFD bank.
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