Senior Backend Software Engineer, Bits
4-5 days a week in office
Store card for building credit
Be an early applicant
Store card for building credit
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
4-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To promote financial inclusion by providing a path to credit for those neglected by mainstream lenders.
Role
Who you are
- Have at least 5 years of programming experience with Node.js and TypeScript, including object-oriented design principles
- Possess experience in designing and implementing clean APIs using REST or GraphQL
- Understand the integration of user-facing elements created by application developers with server-side logic
- Have experience in developing highly scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems utilising AWS services such as API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, and EventBridge
- Are knowledgeable about AI and machine learning fundamentals, including decision trees, logistic regression, and neural networks
- Have prior experience integrating OpenAI or constructing Agentic AI systems, and are open to utilising AI tools like Cursor
- Demonstrate core software engineering competencies, including the ability to write maintainable, testable, and robust code
- Can translate product requirements into scalable and reliable solutions
- Possess the ability to monitor the health of our services and proactively identify and resolve issues
- Know how to integrate third-party APIs effectively
- Have experience in creating automated tests
- Are proactive in your work, taking on a builder role rather than a maintainer, and take full ownership of your deliverables
- Exhibit excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
Desirable
- Experience with low-latency, high-availability, and efficient GraphQL APIs
- Experience with event-driven architectures
- Familiarity with system and application monitoring, software distribution, patching, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with relational databases
- Experience with Python
- Have worked on integrations with payment services such as Stripe, Plaid, PayPal, etc
- Have experience in building SaaS products
- Have worked with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) using AWS CDK
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer at Bits, you're not just joining a company; you're joining a movement
- You'll be a crucial member of our engineering team, working directly with the our Product Lead, Designer and CEO from our Camden offices
- You'll be writing code and getting things done because that's how we roll
Application process
- A quick introductory call
- A short take home technical challenge
- A final round to discuss your code, introduce you to our CEO and founder, plus other members of the team and business, and answer any questions you might have
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Oftentimes, the advice to those with low credit is to build it up with the careful use of high-interest credit cards. However, this comes with the obvious downside of being high risk as well as high reward. Bits, instead, helps people with low credit to improve their scores with a subscription store card that lets them access in-store savings while quickly raising their credit score.
Millions of people in the UK have difficulty accessing financial services due to their credit scores, so it is no surprise that a number of other startups like Pockit and Portify have emerged offering alternative products for this underserved group. Bits, however, stands out for its unique approach that doesn’t put people into any debt at all - with the company making no money on interest.
As Bits has grown, it has expanded its product and now reports to Equifax and TransUnion on top of Experian. Boasting 300,000 users and a strong rating on Trustpilot, it is clear the company has already made an impact and it will be interesting to see what it does in the future.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2020
$0.2m
SEED
Oct 2018
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $0.4m
Company benefits
- Free fruit in the office
- 28 days holiday, including bank/national holidays
- Laptop and phone of your choosing
- Regular team meals
- Team socials
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Faisal Khalid
(CEO)A Harvard graduate in Economics, Faisal has over a decade of experience in major payment companies such as American Express. More recently, they founded Paysnapp, an online payment service for low income migrant workers which was acquired by VFD bank.
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