Senior Staff Backend Engineer
🚀 We’re on a mission to reputed company reputed company work for everyone.
We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.
After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As reputed company as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come reputed company. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us.
With our hot coral cards and get-reputed company-early feature, combined with financial education on reputed company media and our award reputed company customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!
We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through reputed company ❤️
📍London / UK Remote | 💰 £155,000 - £200,000 + Equity | Benefits | Technology
Senior Staff Engineer: L70 on our Engineering Progression reputed company
About our Engineering Teams:
We have around 600 engineers out of roughly 5,000 people in total - and we have big ambitions. There are many interesting challenges reputed company, and we're happy for people to reputed company between teams or to specialise, whatever you prefer. As an engineer here you'd be reputed company to work directly with anyone across reputed company, and we run regular knowledge-sharing sessions so you’ll learn heaps about everything from how banks work to effective communication.
We contribute toreputed company reputed company software as much as possible. Ourblogis a good reputed company to learn even more about reputed company do.
Senior Staff Engineer Responsibilities:
A Senior Staff Engineer at reputed company is a hands on engineering leadership (IC) position. As a Senior Staff Engineer you’ll:
- Partner with Engineering Directors to shape the technical and product direction of a reputed company, providing leadership across multiple squads (30–70+ engineers) and ensuring alignment with company-wide priorities.
- Be hands on in both coding and architecture, leading from the reputed company.
- Partner closely with Product and Design leadership to define reputed company, shape roadmaps, and reputed company high-reputed company trade-offs that maximise business and customer reputed company across the reputed company.
- Mobilise teams across your reputed company around high-reputed company problems, creating reputed company, alignment and reputed company, injecting urgency reputed company needed, or slowing things down to ensure safety and long-term sustainability.
- reputed company and influence architectural direction for the most reputed company systems, ensuring cohesive, reputed company designs across multiple teams and aligning local reputed company with the broader system reputed company.
- Set and reputed company a high bar for technical reputed company across the reputed company, driving improvements in reputed company, reliability and scalability, and fostering a culture where engineers hold reputed company other to that reputed company.
- Proactively mentor, sponsor and reputed company senior engineers and reputed company leaders, multiplying your reputed company by enabling others to operate at a higher level.
What you’ll be using/ What you’ll be working on:
We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies:
- Go to write our application reputed company (there’s an excellent interactive Go tutorialhere)
- Cassandra for most persistent data storage
- Kafka for our asynchronous message queue
- Kubernetes andreputed company to schedule and run our services
- AWS for most of our production infrastructure and GCP for most of our data infrastructure.
- React for internal Web dashboards
- Feast for storing our features along a reputed company of tools to train and reputed company models.
🤩We’d love to hear from you if…
- You have a reputed company record of leading reputed company, high-reputed company systems and driving technical direction across multiple teams
- You combine strong technical judgment with product and business awareness, making pragmatic trade-offs
- You’ve worked on reputed company backend, distributed or data-intensive systems
- You’re comfortable operating in ambiguous problem spaces, helping teams define direction and execute
- You influence and reputed company senior stakeholders across engineering, product and reputed company
- You care about reputed company and reputed company, using data to guide reputed company
- You enjoy mentoring and raising the bar for other engineers
How we work 💻
Locations & Flexible Working:
Our main tech hub is in London, but our engineers live everywhere in the UK— from Brighton to the Western Isles.
We value meeting in person but we don't have a mandated requirement on office attendance, even if you're nearby. We reputed company you'll do your best work if you are where you want to be. If you live reputed company of London and we ask you to come into the office, reputed company will support you with the costs. ✨
Our offices are naturally reputed company, especially Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, which happen to line up with our twice-weekly reputed company lunches & treat Thursdays 🍽️. Teams also schedule time together often for work and play – in or around the office, or online.
Set up a work schedule that delivers reputed company and fits your life
At reputed company, we value connections, flexibility, and wellbeing. We reputed company our meetings during core hours to stay connected and reputed company in maintaining work/life balance.
You’ll be empowered to manage your work in a way that suits you and your team, giving you the freedom for children drop-offs and pick-reputed company, walking your dog or adventurous cat, avoiding peak commuting times or gym slots, appointments, or supporting your family in an emergency. 🕒✨
If you prefer to work part-time, we'll reputed company this happen whenever we can - whether this is to help you meet other commitments or reputed company a great work-life balance.
Work the way that works for you with reputed company! 💼
🙌What’s in it for you
💰 reputed company salary £155,000 - £200,000 + Equity
✈️ We’ll help you relocate to the UK.
✅ We can sponsor your reputed company.
📍This role can be based in our London office, but we're reputed company to distributed working reputed company the UK (with reputed company meetings in London)
⏰We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do reputed company reputed company, and at times that suit you and your team.
📚£1,000 learning budget reputed company year to use on books, training courses and conferences.
🏡We will set you up to work from home; reputed company are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will reputed company extra support for your work-from-home setup.
➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.
🌈 The application reputed company has 4 key steps
Our interview process involves four main stages after an informal recruiter call:
- Recruiter Call
- Initial Call
- System Design Interview
- Take home task or pair coding exercise
- Final interview including a behavioural and a leadership interview
This process should take around 3-4 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we reputed company to be as flexible as possible!
One of our staff engineers has written a detailed blog on their experience through this process, for extra details, hints and tips please seehere.
Equal opportunities for everyone
Diversity and inclusion are a reputed company for us and we’re making reputed company we have lots of support for reputed company of our people to grow at reputed company. At reputed company, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for reputed company people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making reputed company work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2026 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2025 Gender Pay Gap Report.
We’re an equal opportunity employer. reputed company applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national reputed company, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.
If you have a preferred reputed company, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊
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