Senior Backend Engineer, Raindrop
£80-100k
Equity options available dependent on candidate
Reuniting savers with lost pensions
Job no longer available
Reuniting savers with lost pensions
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£80-100k
Equity options available dependent on candidate
21-100 employees
Company mission
Always helping you stay financially in control.
Role
Who you are
- Expertise in Scala or an equivalent functional programming language
- Experience working with effect types like Cats Effect or ZIO (we use CE3)
- Knowledge of API contract design, for both internal and customer facing REST APIs
- Ability to build resilient, high-availability systems
- Experience of testing at Unit, Integration and End-to-end level
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines for build, deployment, etc. (we use GitHub Actions)
- Experience of working with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc)
- Great communication skills and the ability to break through complexity
Desirable
- Experience of messaging technologies (SQS, SNS, Kafka, Kinesis, etc)
- Understanding of containerisation technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of the Smithy Interface Description Language and Smithy4s
- Experience of Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Besom/Pulumi and Terraform/OpenTofu
- Experience of building services in or migrating services to Scala 3
- Knowledge of Akka/Pekko HTTP (we’re mid-way through a migration to http4s)
- Experience or an interest in Performance Testing
- Knowledge of or an interest in Category theory
- Passion for technological innovation – particularly in the finance space
- Previous experience working in start-up or scale-up
- Knowledge of Agile Development practices (e.g. Scrum, Kanban)
What the job involves
- Design and implement microservices in collaboration with Product Managers, Frontend Engineers and our Partners
- Participate in the design of our architecture and the evolution of our technology stack
- Ensure high code quality through peer reviews and continuous improvement
- Develop innovative solutions to complex business problems
- Own services from creation through to Production
Application process
- 1. Apply via Otta
- 2. Introductory screening call (30 mins)
- 3. Technical interview (1 hour)
- 4. Technical challenge (offline - less than 4 hours)
- 5. Meet the team (3 x 30 minutes)
Our take
Automatic enrolment means employees get a new pension every time they switch jobs. However, people have as many as 11 jobs throughout their career, leading to a number of dormant pensions. This fragmentation of pots leads to a lack of oversight, valuable pots being left behind, and ultimately, an inability to manage one’s retirement savings effectively.
Raindrop is setting out to solve this problem and reunite savers with their lost pensions. They help large pension providers grow their assets and customer base whilst providing their end users with an end-to-end pension finding service. Ultimately, this allows their end users to better prepare for retirement by bringing all of their fragmented pots together into one, easy-to-use, digital pension.
Customers currently include large D2C (direct to consumer) platforms, life insurance companies and financial advisors. The founding team has deep experience in finance (Natwest, Klarna, Morgan Stanley, Barclays), making them uniquely placed to execute on the opportunity ahead of them.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
33% female employees
Company
Company benefits
- Work in a dynamic and varied role in which you can develop both creative and analytical skillsets
- The ability to scale up your own career within a fast growing start-up
- The ability to work remotely, if desired
- Bonus Scheme: Competitive, performance focused financial incentives which provides the opportunity to earn more than £2k extra annually
- Personal development allowance
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Marco Ross
(CEO)Completed a BSc in Accounting and Finance at Warwick before working at Credit Suisse and NatWest Markets, most recently as a VP.
Philip Daniel Fortio
(CPO)Ex Barclays Investment Bank and Imperial alum, left trading to found TokenBlocks prior to founding Raindrop.
Raul Tudor
(CTO)Experienced CTO with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry (Klarna, Morgan Stanley). Skilled in full stack development, management, and cloud based technologies.
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