Senior Backend Engineer, Octopus Money
Golang
£75-95k
+ Share incentive plan and team bonus
More information about location
2 days a week in office (Holborn, London)
Making advice and investing accessible for all
Posted today
Making advice and investing accessible for all
101-200 employees
Posted today
£75-95k
+ Share incentive plan and team bonus
More information about location
2 days a week in office (Holborn, London)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help millions of people take the first steps towards making their life dreams a reality.
Role
Who you are
- You should be someone who gets excited by complex problems and can find creative ways to solve them no matter what your level of knowledge and experience with the subject matter
- You should be able to digest complexity and develop a plan to move forward, without losing sight of the important details
- We like to set brilliant goals and find creative ways to hit them, even if that means rolling up our sleeves and doing manual tasks before we’ve managed to fully automate them. You should have a bias towards action and getting things done
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, you should be an expert in at least one aspect of software development and skilled in other areas. You have learned that delivering great software takes a team and has plenty of pitfalls to avoid
- Over five years of expertise in software development using strongly-typed languages (e.g. Go, Java, or similar), with at least 1+ year of commercial experience using Golang
- Strong experience writing easily-testable and thoroughly-tested code
- Demonstrable experience acting successfully as a Senior Engineer, ie breaking down a refined User Story into deliverable tasks and delivering those tasks within a sprint
- Data modelling and DB design experience with with SQL or NoSQL DBs
- Distributed system and messaging event-driven architecture experience
- Experience delivering cloud-based REST API solutions
- Empathetic, proactive and constructive communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across teams
Desirable
- Fintech industry experience
- SaaS knowledge and experience
- Microservice and integrating distributed systems with messaging and event-driven architectures
- AWS Architecture experience
- Experience using Terraform, or other infrastructure as code tooling
- Educated to Bachelor's or Master's degree level in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with excellent Golang and database skills to help us build the scalable operations, technology, and processes needed to transform 5 million lives by making high-quality financial support affordable and accessible to employees everywhere
- This is an ideal opportunity for a motivated self-starter to accelerate their career, taking a broad and varied role within a rapidly growing company. We pride ourselves on building an inclusive working environment where diversity is celebrated
- As a Golang Backend Engineer, you will be working within one of our multi-disciplinary feature squads to design and implement new capabilities
- You will be expected to improve the code quality and provide well-tested functionality that the business can depend on for success
- Our API service layer is written in Go, following a documentation-first mindset. We use a service-oriented architecture to enable extensive unit testing with generated mocks. Our services are deployed via a CI/CD pipeline to our AWS cloud environments
- Demonstrate excellent Go development skills, with the ability to write high-quality, easily testable code
- Take refined User Stories and breaking them down into development sub-tasks
- Champion software engineering best practices, including automated tests, code refactoring, and code reviews where appropriate
- Ensure adherence to coding standards, security guidelines, and compliance requirements
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions, working closely with Product Owners
- Contribute to the development of technical roadmaps and long-term strategies, aligning with business goals
- Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies, identifying opportunities for innovation and improvement
- We’ve built a great team of top performers, and you’ll need to work with others from across the business to identify problems, agree solutions and implement changes
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Octopus Money believes that offering financial coaching to employees is the most effective way to improve their financial well-being. The company is a financial coaching start-up that aims to make useful financial advice accessible to everybody. According to the company, the employees who use its service - numbering at over 250,000 - save, on average, around £9700 per year.
The company differentiates itself through its business model - the service is free, and the company adopts upselling techniques. Octopus Money can easily be implemented by employers within their organisations, giving each employee their own expert financial coach for free. According to the company, most employees will then choose to upgrade their plans and become paying customers.
The business was formerly called Hatch and has been acquired by the Octopus Group. It also powers financial services firms aligned with its values to complement its financial coaching products, covering more bases to draw in a wider customer reach. Octopus Money already counts SecretEscapes, Epson, and Octopus Energy among its growing client base.
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Company benefits
- 18 day “work from anywhere” allowance every year (you can choose to work from home or anywhere, including other countries)
- 6% company pension
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave, if you’ve been with us for at least 15 months: 6 months fully paid leave for primary carers, 2 months fully paid leave for secondary carers
- Private health insurance through Aviva
- Employee Assistance Programme offering a 24/7 confidential advice line for you and your immediate family members
- Discretionary up to 10% bonus at the end of each financial year, based on the performance of the company
- Access to the Octopus Group Share Incentive Plan
- Paid therapy via Spill
Company values
- Make Every Conversation Matter - We care deeply about how we make customers and colleagues feel – on every call, email, screen and event. It won’t always be perfect, but we’ll always work harder to keep making it better.
- Move with Urgency and Focus - We’re impatient to make remarkable things. We focus on what matters most, make fast initial progress and then iterate forward.
- Own It - We take full ownership of our work – from the smallest detail to the final outcome. We have the courage to break new ground, to hold ourselves and each other accountable, to tackle challenges head-on and find solutions that make a lasting impact.
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
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Leadership
Ruth Handcock
(CEO)Founding member of Tandem Bank, former CEO of Octopus Investment and chairperson for Octopus Legacy, Seccl, amicable.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Octopus Money
- We believe in equal financial education for everybody, no matter their background. We pride ourselves on building an inclusive working environment where diversity is celebrated. We do not and never will discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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