Staff Backend Engineer, Cleo
Ruby
+ Equity
AI personal finance assistant
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AI personal finance assistant
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help millions of people improve their financial health, and relate to them in a way their banks never could.
Role
Who you are
- You are passionate about making a positive difference in society by improving the financial health of our users
- You align with our company values and engineering principles, which drive our ways of working and software delivery
- As this is an SE5 position as described in our public progression framework we’re looking for someone who has at least 5+ years industry experience of using Ruby on Rails
What the job involves
- Staff IC within a cross-functional product squad and collaborating with a mix of engineers, designers, analysts and other disciplines to develop features that enhance our users' financial health
- Collaborating with other senior peers in your pillar to provide technical insight into upcoming work, and leading the delivery by helping pull everyone together to get it shipped
- Mentoring colleagues to help them grow as engineers and actively supporting their development
- Working on our Ruby on Rails monolith, building data models, APIs, and business logic services
- Delivering your work using agile methodologies and tools like tests, observability, AB-tests, and feature flags
- Analysing data to identify problems and generate new ideas, using various sources such as our database, application logs, and user research data
- Supporting colleagues through in-hours support and optionally joining the compensated out-of-hours on-call rotation
- Contributing to cross-cutting concerns that improve our engineering efforts
- Taking part in shaping the work of your squad beyond technical aspects, participating in product ideation, user research, design reviews, retrospectives, and more
- Building a secured credit card
- Launching new budget analysis features
- Implementing pricing experiments for subscriptions
- While we take a pragmatic approach, we place a strong emphasis on quality. Our code is peer-reviewed, and we maintain automated testing using Minitest and CircleCI
- We're also actively working towards a more modular architecture, focusing on separating concerns to achieve all the benefits of microservices within a monolith, while progressively refactoring our code as we build new features
- Everyone in the engineering team contributes to driving our technical strategy, voices & ideas from all levels are valued: we are all owners at Cleo
Our take
People are increasingly not satisfied with the products being offered by traditional banks, which have proven slow to react to the needs of younger consumers who expect more from their everyday experiences.
Cleo was one of the first companies to make great use of chatbots that sit within Facebook's messenger app. This chatbot-first approach and Gen Z user base have given it strong virality. It now has millions of registered users, 99% of which are based in the US, leading to a decision to take a year break from the UK market to focus on its US Gen Z customers. And after a successful year in the US its now eyeing up a return to the UK.
Its Series C funding will help the company to double down in the US, where it will make a significant increase in employee headcount, and enable Cleo to maintain and expand its service during an economic downturn.
Financial advice delivered via bots is a crowded space, so Cleo benefits from having a strong brand presence. It has gone for very bold, fun, Gen Z-focused messaging which helps it to stand out from competitors such as Emma, Plum, and Chip.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Employee endorsements
Nice people
"Cleople are unmatched. The vibes, the energy, the friendships. I genuinely love my colleagues and have developed real-life friendships. I don't know..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2022
$80m
SERIES C
Dec 2020
$44m
SERIES B
Total funding: $137.5m
Company benefits
- Learning and development
- Mental health support
- Agile working
Company values
- Make it Happen
- Learn at Speed
- Bring Good Vibes
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Barnaby Hussey-Yeo
(Founder & CEO)Previously a Data Scientist at Wonga, one of the companies that pioneered the smart use of data for loan decisions. Joined Entrepreneur First where Cleo was formed.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Cleo
Annie Jackson (Head of Talent )
- We’ve set up an internal committee of truly passionate people that are dedicated to ensuring Diversity and Inclusion is embedded in how we all operate as a team. We agree on meaningful actions, and get on with implementing them. We have three main focuses right now, which are:
- 1) Improving SocioEconomic diversity across the company
- 2) Increasing the number of women in Leadership roles
- 3) More community outreach
- Check out our 2022 Diversity and Inclusion report, here: https://web.meetcleo.com/blog/cleo-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-report-2022
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