Senior Software Engineer, Seccl
Node.js/TypeScript
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The embedded investment platform
Open for applications
The embedded investment platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform that’s helping more people to invest – and invest well.
Role
Who you are
- To own your services from design to operation. We operate a build-and-run model where engineers have autonomy but full accountability
- Engineers are not passengers in their products but champions. Drive improvements and features while being comfortable to openly collaborate and investigate ideas and being challenged
- Have a strong ability to understand business requirements and turn this into efficient, scalable solutions. Desire to learn our business domain
- Experience in a strongly/statically typed language
- Have a strong understanding of designing, building, and running high-quality, standards-compliant workflow APIs, with a focus on testing, observability, and performance
- Have worked with a cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP). We use AWS
- Have worked with distributed systems and are comfortable debugging through tracing and observability
- Willing to be on-call for your services
- Experience with Node.js, specifically Typescript
- Experience with Amazon Web Services
- Experience with Serverless products
- Experience with document databases, specifically MongoDB
- Experience mentoring/managing
- Experience in a build-and-run model
- Experience in a structured on-call process and incident management
- Experience working in regulated industries, particularly finance
- If this sounds like your kind of thing, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We’d love to hear from you!
What the job involves
- Our product and engineering department is split into four tribes: Custody; Accounts; Experience; Cloud and Security
- Each tribe is comprised of multiple teams, each owning a specific domain of the product
- Each team will have an Engineering manager, a Product manager and 3-5 engineers with tailored skillsets to the specific domain
- Our current technology stack is AWS Serverless products (Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, API Gateway, S3, ECS) running Typescript (and Node.js) on the compute layer and backed by MongoDB for the database layer
- We have some C# services and are expanding out into other AWS products such as ECS Fargate. Our IAC is a mix of Serverless framework and Terraform
- We use JIRA for project management, Github Actions for our CI/CD pipelines and Incident.io for our incident management process
- The purpose of this role is to design, build and operate reliable and scalable, testable and maintainable software solutions, building new functionalities and products using Typescript and Node.js
- You play a key role in our software development and have a hands-on approach throughout the development process. As a senior member of the team, you are the ‘go-to’ person for queries
- Work collaboratively in a domain aligned cross-functional squad made up of engineers and product along with colleagues from customer-facing and operations teams
- Design, implement and operate your services within your domain
- Be accountable for the SLAs of your products and iterative improvements
- Maintain and extend documentation for your services
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence while understanding when “good enough for now” is appropriate
- Provide guidance and mentorship for more junior engineers
- Communicate with non-technical colleagues to answer queries about the Seccl system
Application process
- Interviewing is a two-way thing, and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you
- Our interviews are conversational, so come with questions and be curious. In general, you can expect the interview process to look a bit like this:
- Talent screen - 30 min intro call with our Talent partner or an Engineering manager
- Technical loop - 2.45h virtual technical assessment with 3 core components - system design, hiring manager and cultural fit round and TypeScript code review with breaks between the stages. You will receive preparation materials for the round and more information on how to prepare
- ⏳ We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage
- Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out and you should expect to hear back from us within one to two weeks of applying
Our take
Seccl is an embedded investment platform revolutionising how companies offer investment services. With its API-first technology infrastructure, it helps financial professionals and businesses launch and manage investment platforms easily. By simplifying old, clunky processes, Seccl gives firms the tools they need to offer customers a seamless, digital investing experience - whether it's for financial advisers, neobanks, or fast-growing startups.
Since being acquired by Octopus in 2019, Seccl has seen impressive growth. Now supporting over 1 million investors, it manages more than £6 billion in funds through its platform. With this, Seccl is well on track to power even more businesses, and as it continues to grow, its mission to disrupt the industry with smarter, scalable solutions is only growing in momentum.
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Company benefits
- Flexible/hybrid working: We don’t prescribe when or how many days you come into the office. It’s what you deliver that’s important
- Events and socials: Twice-yearly all-company offsites, regular team socials and plenty of non-work activities – from gigs to sporting activities – to get stuck into
- Private medical: Access GP and other health and dental appointments work through private medical insurance
- Focus on mental health: Your wellbeing is more important than work. We offer free and confidential access to therapy if you need it
- Long-service award: A month’s fully-paid sabbatical when you’ve worked here for eight years (we’re part of Octopus, after all)
- The usual stuff: 27 days’ holiday (plus religious holidays and your birthday), Cycle2Work scheme and workplace pension
Company values
- Never settle
- Take ownership
- Be generous and candid
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
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Leadership
David Ferguson
(Executive Chairman)Joined Seccl in 2022 as CEO. Before that, they spent 15 years as the CEO of Nucleus Financial Group.
Jonathan Dees
(CEO)Previously COO of Octopus Investments and ZPG. Before that, they were Interim CFO at the Fairtrade Foundation.
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