Senior BackEnd Developer, Lydia
Mobile financial services app
Job no longer available
Mobile financial services app
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the payment experience as easy as possible for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate for this position is completely autonomous and sufficiently rigorous to like the intellectual gymnastics necessary to the implementation of new functionalities to the code already in place
- You need to know how to juggle proven technologies to find elegant solutions to new problems
- You have at least 5 years of experience in development on GO stack, ideally in a start-up or in a scale-up environment
- Oriented “project” and “user” culture
- You have a BAC + 2 to 5 (University or engineering school)
- You have excellent skills in software engineering
Desirable
- You are able to communicate in English with your colleagues. We don't expect a big style, but you know how to make yourself understood in writing
- If you have a previous experience in Banking environment
What the job involves
- Reporting to your Vertical Team Lead, you will join one of our multidisciplinary teams, gathering most of the time Product Manager, Technical Product Manager(s), Quality Analyst(s), Front / Mobile/ Backend Developers
- BackEnd team developers / engineers share the same vision: to see beyond the code and to be dedicated to delivering quality features and service to our users
- The application is made up of a multitude of microservices, in a hybrid environment (private and public cloud)
- With us, our engineers who develop a project are responsible for decision-making that is both simple and efficient
- Elaborate complex solutions that require deep understanding of Banking processes
- Empower and assist less experienced developers
- Ensure operational excellence during runtime
- Schedule and deliver a wide range of technical features
- Experience with distributed systems, performance optimization and refactoring
Our take
The Lydia app has rapidly become France’s leading banking challenger. As France’s 2nd most downloaded fintech app, it has onboarded nearly 6 million users and became a unicorn in late 2021. The company has reached these heights with its savvy strategy: building out gradually from a modest P2P payments app into a multi-service “super app.”
It’s a remarkable player in the broader, global banking revolution that’s seeing neobanks and fintech startups outmanoeuvre incumbent institutions to net the Millennial and Gen X markets. Whilst this frenzy of competition makes the fierce market difficult to access for smaller, newer competitors, Lydia’s deeply embedded French user base has earned it a powerful reputation.
With “super-apps” such as Lydia consolidating in its own regions, many have their eyes on a more global reach. This is where the pressure may be applied to Lydia, which only operates in a handful of EU territories, whereas close competitor Revolut operates in dozens, with plans to expand intercontinentally. Lydia has added competitive novel features like crypto-investing capabilities to its platform but its need for innovation to fend off international competitors led to the development of banking app Sumeria.
Sumeria's mobile-first banking solution stands separately from the Lydia peer-to-peer payments app and was the company's solution to better monetise and simplify its products. Effectively rebranding its app for what is now an 8 million-strong user base, Sumeria is part of Lydia's shifting identity and it will be interesting to see how the Unicorn evolves.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Dec 2021
$100m
SERIES C
Dec 2020
$86m
SERIES B
Total funding: $256m
Company HQ
Sentier, Paris, France
Leadership
Cyril Chiche
(CEO)Previously a Co-founder and COO for Avitis, who went on to co-found and serve as CEO at the mobile drinks payments platform Drinkon.me. Also a board member of France Fintech.
Antoine Porte
(CPO)Previously an associate and entrepreneur, and Co-founder of Drinkon.me.
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