Software Engineer, Griffin

£60-85k

Elixir

Haskell

Erlang

Clojure

Mid and Senior level

London

Remote from Europe, UK

More information about location

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

FintechBankingPaymentsFinancial Services

Job no longer available

£60-85k

Elixir

Haskell

Erlang

Clojure

Mid and Senior level

London

Remote from Europe, UK

More information about location

101-200 employees

FintechBankingPaymentsFinancial Services

Company mission

To simplify the complexity of banking infrastructure and compliance operations, so their customers can focus on what they really care about.

Job

Company

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

Top investors

39% female employees

67% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Mar 2024

$25.8m

SERIES A

Mar 2023

$14.9m

SERIES A

Total funding: $71.4m

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 HQ

City of London, London, UK

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.

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