Software Engineer, Griffin
£60-85k
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Full-stack Banking-as-a-Service platform with a banking license
Job no longer available
Full-stack Banking-as-a-Service platform with a banking license
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
£60-85k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify the complexity of banking infrastructure and compliance operations, so their customers can focus on what they really care about.
Role
Who you are
- Some professional functional programming experience
- Either a very strong distributed systems background or a healthy amount of full-stack exposure (i.e. experience integrating front and backends directly)
- Experience collaborating with Product Managers and UX/UI Designers to build products that solve customer needs
Desirable
- Experience with the other parts of our stack (Event-streaming tools, Kube, AWS, Databases)
- Relevant domain experience in payments or core banking systems
- Experience working with small teams, ideally in fast-paced start-up environments
What the job involves
- As with most of the company the engineering team is still in it's infancy. We have grown quickly within the last year to our current team size of 40 which is made up of the CTO, VP of Engineering, Engineering Managers and 34 engineers split across backend, infrastructure and fullstack specialisations
- Rather than "move fast and break things", we aim to move thoughtfully and to make few mistakes.
- We are an output-driven environment that operates with extreme autonomy; people are free to keep their own hours and we don't micro-manage each other
- Our backend stack is Clojure, FoundationDB, Kubernetes and AWS
- Our frontend stack is CLJS, Reframe, Reagent, React, Stitches, Storybook, and Playroom
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Griffin is working to change the banking world, which they see as exclusive, opaque, and not particularly technology-friendly. Their aim is to lower barriers to entry for fintechs and increase transparency.
To achieve this, they are designing a wholesale bank from the ground up, focusing on the problems their customers face and following steps to solve them.
Griffin is taking a novel approach, offering a bank-as-a-platform model with integrated compliance to allow customers to get their financial products to market quickly and cost-effectively.
Their systems have the capability to move faster than existing banks burdened by legacy tech and provide new opportunities to financial technology firms over a wide range of business models.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
39% female employees
67% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Nice people
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Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2024
$22.9m
SERIES A
Mar 2023
$13.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $64m
Company benefits
- Life insurance through AIG
- Generous stock option grants for everyone at the company
- Private medical insurance through Vitality
- A weekly team lunch on Griffin (even when you're working remotely)
- Auto-enrolment into company pension scheme
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Remote first working culture, If you want to to work from home you can and you can expense your office set up. Equally, we have an office in London where you can work, as well as the ability to work from shared working spaces
- Up to 6 months fully paid parental leave (depending on tenure)
- Annual(ish) company offsite
Company values
- Thoughtfulness - Take your time
- Kindness and Empathy - Assume the best of each other
- Resilience - Don't give up easily
- Simple made easy - Reduce complexity where possible
- Transparent - Open by default
- Be Deserving of Trust - We measure ourselves against the highest standard of conduct
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Allen Rohner
(CTO)Previously founded CircleCI and authored the book Learning ClojureScript with co-founder David.
David Jarvis
(CEO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer at Standard Treasury and Airbnb.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Griffin
Jenna Baker (Chief People Officer )
- Our goal is for Griffin to proportionally represent the diversity of the working population in society. We’re working to ensure that Griffin is a supportive, empowering and inclusive environment for every member of our team — whatever your intersection of identities & background. If you're part of a group that is under-represented in fintech, we'd love to hear from you.
- We offer enhanced parental leave for Grifflings - you’re able to take 26 weeks of parental leave. This increases to 52 weeks if you are based in the UK AND you are the birthing parent, the primary-caregiver adopter, or if you and your partner decide to use UK’s Shared Parental Leave.
- We'll pay you in full for 13 weeks of parental leave, and then the greater of 50% pay or London Living Wage for the following 13 weeks, provided you’ve been with us for 6 months on your expected due date or placement date.
- If you have been with us for two years (or more!) by your expected due date or placement date, we will pay you in full for 26 weeks of parental leave
- We are flexible with our approach to work, work from home, the office or a shared working space, it's really up to you! We also are flexible on what hours you work too, we understand that life can sometimes just get in the way and you need to be able to pick up the kids from school.
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