Senior Scala Engineer, Yonder
£90-105k
+ £81,000 - £94,500 in options
3-5 days a week in office (Old Street, London )
Credit rewards card
Job no longer available
Credit rewards card
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£90-105k
+ £81,000 - £94,500 in options
3-5 days a week in office (Old Street, London )
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make money rewarding and credit empowering through products people understand and love.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with Production-Ready Services: Possess a strong track record of building services that are robust and ready for production use
- Advanced Scala Proficiency: Deep understanding of Scala, including its functional programming features and ecosystem
- Expertise in RESTful APIs: Have a solid background in designing and implementing RESTful APIs
- Familiarity with Kafka or Event-Driven Systems: Bring experience with Kafka or similar event-driven architectures, demonstrating an understanding of their dynamics and integrations
- Microservices and Distributed Systems Experience: Expertise in developing and managing microservices and understanding of distributed systems concepts
- Customer-Focused Approach: Prioritize solving customer problems over focusing solely on specific technologies, showing a keen understanding of user needs
- Comfort with Ambiguity: Excel in ambiguous situations, enjoying the challenge of setting your own direction and navigating through uncertainty
- Diverse Database Systems Experience: Have hands-on experience with a wide range of database systems, showcasing versatility and adaptability in data management
What the job involves
- You’ll get to work on everything from what happens when a customer taps their card, to our in-house core banking system or our unique approach to credit card rewards
- You'll be joining a small engineering team with end-to-end ownership over the development lifecycle, system architecture and infrastructure
- As a small team, the work you do has a huge impact and you’ll get to shape the future of engineering at Yonder. You’ll wear many hats, spending time building new micro-services to maintaining the infrastructure that they all run on
- Collaborating on System Architecture: Work together in designing and refining the architecture for a cutting-edge credit card, core banking, and rewards system
- Backend System Development: Build and deploy backend systems, collaborating closely with fellow engineers to define product functionalities
- Cloud Infrastructure Management: Assist in the design, construction, and deployment of cloud infrastructure to support backend systems
- Collaboration with Product and Design Teams: Engage closely with product and design teams to create optimal experiences for our members
- Full Lifecycle Ownership: Take responsibility for the entire development process, from story definition to validation in testing environments and deployment to production
- Leading Technical Discussions: Actively participate in and lead technical discussions, contributing to decisions about architecture, tools, and processes. Utilize bytesize architecture reviews for knowledge sharing and check-ins
- Mentorship and Team Leadership: Provide mentorship to junior team members, enhancing their technical abilities and knowledge in Scala and functional programming principles
Application process
- Stage 1: Hiring manager call (45 mins): We'll have an initial Zoom call or coffee in Old Street to find out more about you and to tell you more about us
- Stage 2: Face-to-face at our Old Street office (120 min): We’ll run through two 60-minute interviews, with a 15 min comfort break to learn more about how you work. This will also be a great opportunity for you to meet the rest of the team. Interviews will be structured as follows:
- Technical interview (60 mins): We'll deep dive into your technical experience, talk about projects you've worked on and work through designing a system on a whiteboard
- Values interview (60 mins): We want to learn more about how you work - we’ll ask you questions related to our principles (Our DNA). This stage will be with two people from our wider team
- Stage 3: Take home exercise: This is your time to shine, you can either send over an example of your proudest work or we can send you a small exercise to demonstrate your skills
- Stage 4: Offer 🤩 If everyone’s happy, we’ll make you an offer to join us 🎉 All offers are subject to right to work & criminal background checks. We’ll also do a reference check - ideally with a previous manager on the phone
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Two of Yonder's founders moved to the UK from Australia and despite having a stable income and a mortgage back in Australia, struggled to access to high quality credit products. After realising this was the case for over 8.3m people in the UK, they wanted to make money rewarding and credit empowering; thus, Yonder was born.
The company promises to offer a modern rewards credit card with no foreign exchange fees, worldwide travel insurance, and more. The team has significant experience in this space, having worked for multiple years at ClearScore, one of the UK's largest consumer credit marketplaces. By prioritising the customer, not the bank, Yonder offer a highly appealing alternative to traditional credit card options.
The company's partnership with Ophelos, a tech firm building fairer debt resolution for businesses, is another step in the direction of the customer. Further, the company has secured significant additional funding to expand into new verticals and launch in new UK cities. As over 30 million people use a credit card just in the UK, Yonder's market potential is huge.
Insights
Company
Employee endorsements
Autonomy
"We talk about "extreme ownership" and "bias to action" as two of our core values, and this is really true in practice as well. I'm the newest member..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2023
$16.2m
SERIES A
Mar 2022
$25.8m
SEED
Total funding: $43.1m
Company benefits
- 35 holidays a year (27 + 8 public holidays)
- £500 learning and training allowance every year
- Monthly team breakfast and team events
- Free breakfast, snacks, and stocked drinks fridge
- Office in Old Street (with plenty of room to nap)
- Equity packages
- Financial coaching with Octopus Money
- Cycle to work scheme
- Private healthcare with Aviva (including mental health, dental & vision)
- 16 weeks enhanced parental leave for all parents after being with Yonder for a year
Company values
- Obsess over customers - We sweat the details and make every moment so seamless; it feels magical. We’re famous for how we go above and beyond for our customers.
- Act like an owner - We take accountability for our successes and failures and set high standards. We always act in the best interests of Yonder and society.
- Move quickly and learn - We move quickly to deliver high impact results and aren’t afraid to learn from mistakes. We don’t wait for someone else to do it; we step up when we see a gap.
- Embrace the challenge, together - Great work is always done by great teams. We ask for help and generously support each other. We empower each other by challenging directly and caring personally.
Company HQ
London, UK
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Founders
Tim Chong
(CEO)Previously Head of Product at ClearScore, where he worked for 3 years. Prior to that, spent 6 years at Accenture where he was a Growth Strategy Manager & Australia Lead. Also has an MBA from LBS.
Harry Jell
(CTO)Previously Lead Developer at ClearScore, where he spent 4 years. 2 years of experience at OpenMarket prior to that.
Theso Jivajirajah
(Chief Risk Officer)Previously Data Science Lead at ClearScore for 3 years. Prior to that, built up 10 years of experience in finance & credit at Commonwealth Bank, Deloitte, and Vanquis Bank.
Diversity & Inclusion at Yonder
Tim Chong (Co-founder and CEO)
- Our founding team are 2/3 BAME and 2/3 aren't from the UK.
- We genuinely believe diverse teams create better outcomes for customers, teams and businesses - we're not interested in tickbox exercises.
- I've personally lived in 5 different countries (Australia, Kenya, Cambodia, US and UK) and love bringing together people from different background and world views.
- We know there's still a lot more we need to do - and we want you to be part of helping us on our D&I journey!
- Our team is currently >35% female and >35% BAME, and our goal is to get as close to 50/50 as possible!
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