Back End Software Engineer, FundApps
£80-90k
+ Micro-bonuses
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Regulatory compliance automation software
Open for applications
Regulatory compliance automation software
101-200 employees
Open for applications
£80-90k
+ Micro-bonuses
More information about location
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
FundApps' mission is to help investment managers harness the power of community & technology to automate regulatory compliance.
Role
Who you are
- You will have an understanding of good practices and patterns of software and cloud native architectures
- You will also know how to use these to deliver high quality software and add meaningful value
- As well as being a strong individual contributor, you will be able to share knowledge and demonstrate good practices to your colleagues
- You will be comfortable slicing stories to minimise risk and ensure a consistent cadence, modelling these good working practices to colleagues
- You are able to demonstrate solid business acumen and can articulate the impact of your work
- You are able to own one or more team objectives
- You will be able to share knowledge and best practices with the wider department
- You value transparency and can communicate effectively; shedding light on potential hurdles before they arise as well as when the unexpected happens
- You are a pragmatist who believes in strong opinions weakly held
- You are a team player who focuses on team success over individual output, and are always willing to help your colleagues out
- You are an experienced developer with a real passion for back-end related work, with experience in C# (or a desire to learn it and relevant experience in another language)
- You get a kick from understanding the technicalities of platforms and system architectures
- You thrive on getting things done and deployed to users
- You care about your craft and are hungry to learn new skills and improve your existing ones
- You know and appreciate automated testing, clean code and continuous deployment
What the job involves
- As an Established Engineer you can be relied upon to tackle ambiguous problems, own projects end to end, have effective communication skills, deliver great code and help others succeed in their own tasks through your skills and knowledge
- You will use your hands-on knowledge to advocate for improvements to the platform to support ambitious plans to grow market share and launch new products
- You will help identify ways to improve our overall architecture and lead from the front on delivering on new technical solutions
- Back-end: C#
- Data storage: PostgreSQL; Amazon storage including Aurora, DynamoDB, S3
- Infrastructure: Terraform & AWS, using Fargate, Lambdas, Step functions, and a lot more!
- Pipeline: GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, Serverless
- Front-end: React, TypeScript
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Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
FundApps is a Compliance-as-a-Service company, aiming to provide some of the world’s largest asset managers, hedge funds, and investment banks with automated compliance monitoring services.
It aims to solve the three main problems faced by compliance teams: keeping track of international regulation, interpreting it correctly, and accurately aggregating exposure across portfolios. FundApps combines web-based technology, regulatory expertise, market data and the specialist knowledge of its community in order to help financial institutions comply with international regulations.
FundApps differentiates itself through the proprietary technology it uses to accurately capture the latest changes in regulation. Its service monitors more than $17 trillion in assets under management, or about 15% of all global assets, on behalf of clients from all over the world. It is continuing to expand its partnership network, with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority recently implementing FundApps' compliance suite to monitor its significant sovereign wealth funds.
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Company benefits
- 🕐 Work/life balance
- 👶 26 weeks leave for all new parents regardless of gender, location or family structure
- 🎓£1,000 (or equivalent) learning budget each year and unlimited professional development leave
- 🍏 Private medical insurance
- 💚 Wellbeing benefits such as mental health coaching and a Headspace subscription
- 💰 Peer micro-bonuses through Bonusly
- 🚢 25 days holiday leave + an extra day next year if you use it all + an extra day after 3 & 5 years
- 🧳 5 Years @ FundApps - additional 4 week paid holiday leave during your 5th year as a FundApper
- ❤️ Unlimited volunteering leave
- 🎁 Birthday off
- 💡 Peer-led ‘Brown-bag lunch’ learning sessions
Company values
- Raise the bar
- Have courage
- Work with purpose
- Be transparent
- Do more with less
Company HQ
Finsbury, London, UK
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Founders
Andrew Patrick White
(CEO)Previous experience in software engineering, product management, and business development. Former Managing Director at Aquin International.
Diversity & Inclusion at FundApps
- The mean gender pay gap at FundApps in 2023 was 0.6%. We have achieved this by: Building career pathways with defined competencies and expectations at each level to enable transparent conversations about career growth. Challenging unconscious biases that may creep in at hiring or performance review time. We will continue to train people leaders to interview, assess, give feedback and calibrate talent fairly. Establishing strong partnerships with companies whose values align with ours to support change and underrepresented groups. Reviewing the performance, promotion and pay frameworks, continuously checking for blind spots. Growing our culture with healthy, sustainable principles and practices that make FundApps attractive for women to join and a place to thrive.
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