Senior Backend Engineer, OceanFinance

• You approach things with curiosity
• You are good at turning ambiguity into consensus
• You learn from failure
• You have a good understanding of system design
• You have an agile mindset
• You have a good understanding of OOP (or additional bonus functional programming)
• You understand what is required to ship
• You can review code
• You want code to be well-written and appropriately tested
• You can give and receive feedback constructively
• It’ll help if you know your way around these tools/apps:
• A slew of AWS services
• Use of command line
• Docker/containerisation
• A range of infra as code tools like CDK
• CI/CD pipelines
• Github
• Observability tools like DataDog
• You’ll excel if you’re the type of person who:
• Eager to experiment and try new technologies and techniques
• You're someone who takes ownership and who tries to learn as much as possible
• Willingness to take new responsibilities
• Capable of working with minimal guidance to flesh out product requirements and communicate deliverables with stakeholders
• Has alignment with our company values and engineering principles
• Has 3 or more years of experience as a Back-End engineer or with similar technologies
• Proven experience developing new systems & owning end-to-end development cycles

• Delivery of new products, features and supporting systems
• Maintaining and improving our existing products
• Aiding your squad to deliver meaningful outcomes
• Taking a requirement and building a context around it
• Exploring asynchronous architecture
• Exploring an idea with your Product Manager or UX colleague
• Refactoring code
• Fixing an issue and pushing it to production
• Gaining expertise in your domain
• Delivering right-sized work
• You augment your squad and improve outcomes
• Hours: 40 hrs/week, 7 am – 7 pm core hours

• Screen call with Sarah - People Experience Manager (15 mins)
• Values and Experience fit interview with Steve - Head of Engineering (45 mins)
• A take-home technical test (with review)
• Panel interview to present tech test to other engineers (1 hour 30 mins)
• Final chat with Ali, CEO, and Steve, Head of Engineering (45 mins)
• Offer

• Welcome you into our awesome team (dare we say the best? We do, yes!)
• Bring the kind of vibe where we want you to share your ideas, even if it’s not “your area”
• Help you plan for life after work with our pension scheme
• Take care of your health with eye test vouchers, Perkbox medical and wellness and our employee assistance programme
• Give you 25 days holiday (to start with), as well as local public holidays and a day off on your birthday
• Support you with training, mentoring and anything else you need to further your development and hit your career goals
• Invite you to regular online and in-person team socials, as well as the occasional team retreat somewhere exotic
• Help you help others with optional “community” days for volunteering
• Provide extra treats, freebies and discounts through Perkbox Perks

Founded by semi-pro poker player Paul Newey in 1991, Ocean Finance is a credit and loan company. It began its life shrouded in infamy off the back of rising house prices and later, the financial crash of 2008. However, in 2012, Ocean Finance was acquired by Think Money Group and has rebranded as a more trustworthy venture, utilising innovations in fintech to provide a suite of credit card and loan products.