Backend Software Engineer, Curve
Golang
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (Paddington, London)
Consolidating all a customer's bank cards into a single card
Job no longer available
Consolidating all a customer's bank cards into a single card
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (Paddington, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify the way people spend, send, see and save money.
Role
Who you are
- L4 (Mid - Senior)
- In-depth knowledge of Golang (experience with PHP is a plus)
- Experience building microservices, ideally deployed in containers on Kubernetes
- Solid grounding in agile development practices
- Experience with both RDBMS and NoSQL datastores
- Bonus: experience with real-time, low-latency, high-frequency transaction-based systems
- Ability to diagnose problems across the stack (client, HTTP/network, server, database, OS) with sound rationale for decisions
- Proven experience building large, concurrent, distributed applications
- Experience developing and running large-scale production environments in partnership with DevOps or SRE teams
- Bonus: experience with event-driven architectures
- A genuine interest in working in a fast-paced startup, ideally in fintech or payments
- Bonus: experience mentoring or coaching other engineers (L5)
- A voracious appetite for learning and improvement
- We know that great candidates don’t always tick every single box. If this role excites you and you think you’d be a great fit, we want to hear from you
What the job involves
- At Curve, we obsess about our customers. We’re constantly innovating and working iteratively to solve problems in the world of money that conventional banking won’t touch
- As a Backend Software Engineer, you’ll support the build of elegant, performant, maintainable, operable, and secure Golang microservices. You’ll help design and architect our systems, contribute to continuous improvement, and play a key role in making the engineering team the best it can be
- Projects you’ll contribute to (or lead the charge on):
- Building our vision of a connected platform, integrating seamlessly with best-in-class apps, tools, and services
- Connecting the financial world for customers by bringing together account and transactional data that enables better financial decisions
- Developing spend analytics, insights, and recommendations powered by data and machine learning
- Building a financial product marketplace: credit, savings, and other products designed to improve financial lives
- Our current tech stack:
- Languages: Golang (PHP is a bonus)
- Messaging: Kafka, RabbitMQ
- Data: Event Driven Architecture, Snowplow, Python for ETL
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, BigQuery
- Mobile: iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin)
- DevOps culture: TDD, BDD, Scrum, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
- Delivering clean, architecturally sound, maintainable server-side code (bonus points for full-stack experience)
- Collaborating with stakeholders across the business to build–measure–learn a world-class product
- Partnering with product and engineering managers to constantly refine and iterate on development processes
- Motivating the team past roadblocks to make sure features ship as effectively as possible
- Guiding design discussions and helping the team balance flexibility, expediency, scalability, and performance
- Championing new technologies and promoting best development practices
- Keeping an eye on the future while proactively, but pragmatically, tackling technical debt
- 🎯 What success looks like here:
- You ship clean, reliable, and secure code that scales
- Our systems are more resilient, performant, and maintainable because of your contributions
- Product teams see you as a partner who helps ideas become reality quickly, without sacrificing quality
- Technical debt is reduced, not ignored, and future-proofing is always balanced with delivery
- You bring energy and pragmatism to design discussions, guiding the team to better solutions
- You’re recognised as someone who makes the team stronger - through coaching, knowledge sharing, and raising the bar
Salary benchmarks
Our take
While its customers have their own Curve card, fintech company Curve emphasises its distinction from traditional banking institutions. Renowned for its groundbreaking remedy to credit and debit card clutter - a singular card amalgamating multiple accounts - the company has garnered widespread acclaim.
Alongside its all-in-one card, Curve offers customers access to spending insights and premium exchange rates for international travel. Its astute banking tool secured a hefty $1B lending capital injection from Credit Suisse in 2022, followed by a substantial $58M Series C funding round in 2023, ranking among the largest in tech that year.
Curve's dominance extends beyond mere payment aggregation; its analytical tools outpace competitor platforms like Apple Pay. Additionally, Curve has introduced Curve Flex as a solution tailored to the contentious buy-now-pay-later model. With plans to leverage its 2023 funding for enhancing customer experience, particularly through app refinements and flex solutions, Curve is poised to fortify its position while laying the groundwork for future collaborations.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Mar 2025
$50.1m
LATE VC
Jan 2024
$40.4m
LATE VC
Total funding: $346.7m
Company HQ
Paddington, London, UK
Leadership
Shachar Bialick
(Founder & CEO)Previously worked as Head of Product at Checkout.com, CEO at Machshavot SmartJOB, and Founder and former CEO at SmartEQ. Completed an MBA at INSEAD.
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