Software Engineer, Griffin
Infrastructure & Tooling
£60-85k
Tax-advantaged stock options under HMRC's Company Share Option Plan (CSOP)
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
£60-85k
Tax-advantaged stock options under HMRC's Company Share Option Plan (CSOP)
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
- We don’t expect you to have experience with every product we use, but we do want you to have a grasp of the underlying principles of most and be able to pick up the specifics as you go
- Deeper knowledge in any of the following areas, allowing you to critically examine some of our existing systems and processes for potential improvements or alternatives soon after joining, is ideal: Infrastructure as code, Core cloud provider services (IAM, VPC, compute, object storage etc), Kubernetes, Build tooling, Distribute systems, IP Networking.
- You will be writing code for internal tools as well as infrastructure as part of this role, and we want that to meet the same standard as application code written by the product engineering teams
- You should have a good knowledge of software engineering practices, especially with regards to security and testing
- Operational experience with any of the specific products we currently use (AWS, Bazel, CDK, FoundationDB, CircleCI) is a further advantage, but not required
- The cloud engineering team is often directed by the technical requirements of other parts of the company, so you need to be able to research new products and make sensible suggestions rapidly
- An ability for self-directed learning is a must
What the job involves
- Cloud engineering is a small team within the larger engineering group. We’re ultimately responsible for making sure that the systems are in place to test, build, deploy, and run our applications quickly, correctly, and securely
- You'll be responsible for building, operating and monitoring our production infrastructure. We are building a bank that will handle thousands of transactions per second. Correctness, performance, and reliability are paramount
- Writing infrastructure as code to configure our AWS accounts and regions in a standard and repeatable way
- Managing our base infrastructure, Kubernetes, and FoundationDB
- Writing internal tools to turn what are currently periodic manual processes into automated ones
- Speeding up our Continuous Deployment pipeline
- Developing our resilience from automated availability zone failure recovery to full regional failover
- Supporting other engineering teams with new infrastructure requests, and building out self-service tooling for them to use in future
- Improving our scalability with deployment and cluster autoscaling based on internal custom metrics
- Writing internal tools to make monitoring, logging, alerting, and debugging easier and faster
- Writing code to verify our systems are correct after power / network etc. failures, a restore from backup, or disaster-recovery failover to secondary regions
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
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
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Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2024
$23.9m
SERIES A
Jun 2023
$13.7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $66.5m
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
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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
- 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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