Associate Software Engineer, Griffin
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Full-stack Banking-as-a-Service platform with a banking license
Job no longer available
Full-stack Banking-as-a-Service platform with a banking license
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
+ Stock options
21-100 employees
Company mission
Griffin wants to make it quick, simple, and affordable for innovative fintechs and brands to bring finance to their customers at the point of greatest relevance. Their goal is to simplify the complexity of banking infrastructure and compliance operations, so their customers can focus on what they really care about.
Role
Who you are
- Software Engineering fundamentals such as Algorithms, Databases, Data Structures and Programming paradigms
- A growth mindset that’s demonstrated by a willingness to seek out feedback
- A collaborative approach to building software
- Clear and succinct communication style both written and spoken
Desirable
- Experience of functional programming (Clojure, Haskell, Elixir, Erlang)
- Experience with some of our engineering stack (AWS, CDK, Kubernetes, Clojure)
- You have an interest in security and compliance, ideally with practical experience
What the job involves
- We have grown over the last year to our current team size of 38 which is spread across our 4 Product areas (FinCrime Ops, Banking, Payments and Platform) and Infrastructure. Rather than "move fast and break things", we aim to move thoughtfully and to make few mistakes
- Support the development of a “Continuous Audit” automation of our existing manual audit processes
- Implement automated monitoring and alerting relating to audit and compliance in our infrastructure and corporate IT systems
- Assist the CTO and Infrastructure Engineering Manager in the collation of evidence for internal, external and third party audits or certifications - currently a manual process
- Meet with auditors to understand their requirements, and identify how to best evidence the challenges they put forward
- Work with second and third line risk teams to identify further areas of improvement in our controls and reporting
- Support the wider infrastructure team projects
Application process
- Get to know you with a member of Talent
- Deep dive into your professional experience, software engineering, collaboration skills, and mindset, with one of our engineering leaders
- Take home task looking at your writing and coding a simple automated audit task
- Discussion around technical topics with peers, including automating audit, software/data engineering experience, liaising with other business units
- Griffin culture interview with Grifflings outside of the Engineering Guild, and an opportunity to meet one of our founders
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Griffin is working to change the banking world, which they see as exclusive, opaque, and not particularly technology-friendly. Their aim is to lower barriers to entry for fintechs and increase transparency.
To achieve this, they are designing a wholesale bank from the ground up, focusing on the problems their customers face and following steps to solve them.
Griffin is taking a novel approach, offering a bank-as-a-platform model with integrated compliance to allow customers to get their financial products to market quickly and cost-effectively.
Their systems have the capability to move faster than existing banks burdened by legacy tech and provide new opportunities to financial technology firms over a wide range of business models.
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39% female employees
67% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Nice people
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Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2024
$24.4m
SERIES A
Jun 2023
$14m
SERIES A
Total funding: $67.9m
Company benefits
- Life insurance through AIG
- Generous stock option grants for everyone at the company
- Private medical insurance through Vitality
- A weekly team lunch on Griffin (even when you're working remotely)
- Auto-enrolment into company pension scheme
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Remote first working culture, If you want to to work from home you can and you can expense your office set up. Equally, we have an office in London where you can work, as well as the ability to work from shared working spaces
- Up to 6 months fully paid parental leave (depending on tenure)
Company values
- Thoughtfulness - Take your time
- Kindness and Empathy - Assume the best of each other
- Resilience - Don't give up easily
- Simple made easy - Reduce complexity where possible
- Security first - Everyone's not out to get us, but some people are
- Transparent - Open by default
- Be Deserving of Trust - We measure ourselves against the highest standard of conduct
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Founders
Allen Rohner
(CTO)Previously founded CircleCI and authored the book Learning ClojureScript with co-founder David
David Jarvis
(CEO)Previously worked as a software engineer at Standard Treasury and Airbnb
Diversity & Inclusion at Griffin
Jenna Baker (Chief People Officer )
- Our goal is for Griffin to proportionally represent the diversity of the working population in society. We’re working to ensure that Griffin is a supportive, empowering and inclusive environment for every member of our team — whatever your intersection of identities & background. If you're part of a group that is under-represented in fintech, we'd love to hear from you.
- We offer enhanced parental leave for Grifflings - you’re able to take 26 weeks of parental leave. This increases to 52 weeks if you are based in the UK AND you are the birthing parent, the primary-caregiver adopter, or if you and your partner decide to use UK’s Shared Parental Leave.
- We'll pay you in full for 13 weeks of parental leave, and then the greater of 50% pay or London Living Wage for the following 13 weeks, provided you’ve been with us for 6 months on your expected due date or placement date.
- If you have been with us for two years (or more!) by your expected due date or placement date, we will pay you in full for 26 weeks of parental leave
- We are flexible with our approach to work, work from home, the office or a shared working space, it's really up to you! We also are flexible on what hours you work too, we understand that life can sometimes just get in the way and you need to be able to pick up the kids from school.
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