Senior Product Engineer, Yonder
Scala
£91.2-101.4k
+ £78,361 - 98,023 stock options
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (Hoxton, London)
Credit and debit rewards cards
Be an early applicant
Credit and debit rewards cards
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
£91.2-101.4k
+ £78,361 - 98,023 stock options
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (Hoxton, London)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower people to build financially rewarding lives.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for someone who loves solving consumer problems with straightforward technical solutions and is happy to jump in and wear many hats (lots of the backend team also work on Infrastructure changes)
- ✅ Experience with Production-Ready Services: Possess a strong track record of building services that are robust and ready for production use
- ✅ Advanced Scala Proficiency: Deep understanding of Scala, including its functional programming features and ecosystem
- ✅ Expertise in RESTful APIs: Have a solid background in designing and implementing RESTful APIs
- ✅ Familiarity with Kafka or Event-Driven Systems: Bring experience with Kafka or similar event-driven architectures, demonstrating an understanding of their dynamics and integrations
- ✅ Micro-services and Distributed Systems Experience: Expertise in developing and managing micro-services and understanding of distributed systems concepts
- ✅ Customer-Focused Approach: Prioritize solving customer problems over focusing solely on specific technologies, showing a keen understanding of user needs
- ✅ Comfort with Ambiguity: Excel in ambiguous situations, enjoying the challenge of setting your own direction and navigating through uncertainty
- ✅ Ownership & Drive: Thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, taking full ownership from idea to delivery and driving projects forward under tight deadlines. ✅ Growth Mindset: Eager to learn, adapt, and master new skills while tackling complex challenges head-on
- ✅ Own quality through automated testing: You take full responsibility for ensuring your code is reliable by writing thorough automated tests. You see testing as part of building, not an afterthought, and actively involve the wider squad when collaboration or shared test coverage is needed to guarantee a rock-solid experience
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Product Engineer (Scala) to join our growing team of backend engineers
- You’ll get to work on everything from what happens when a customer taps their card, to our in-house core banking system or our unique approach to credit card rewards
- You'll be joining a small engineering team with end-to-end ownership over the development lifecycle, system architecture and infrastructure
- As a small team, the work you do has a huge impact and you’ll get to shape the future of engineering at Yonder
- You’ll wear many hats, spending time building new micro-services to maintaining the infrastructure that they all run on
- Develop production-grade backend services in Scala, powering payments, core banking, and rewards
- Develop event-driven systems with Kafka and integrate multiple internal/external services
- Ship features end-to-end, from concept through to live deployment, with measurable customer impact
- Contribute to the architecture of our distributed micro-services, ensuring scalability, resilience, and maintainability
- Design RESTful APIs and data flows that integrate seamlessly with frontend and partner systems
- Participate in lightweight architecture reviews to share knowledge and guide technical decisions
- Manage and improve our cloud infrastructure (GCP), containerised workloads (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimise system performance in production
- Apply best practices for reliability, observability, and security across our stack
- Work closely with product and design to deliver features that delight our members
- Pair with other engineers to solve problems, review code, and raise the team’s technical bar
- Mentor junior engineers, helping them grow their Scala skills and engineering judgement
Application process
- We take the candidate experience really seriously, so we’ve made the process as transparent as possible. We also promise to be super responsive, and will never leave you wondering where you stand for weeks on end
- Stage 1: Intro call (45 mins): You will have an initial Meets call with Matt Brown to find out more about you and to tell you more about us
- Stage 2: Case interview / Take home task (60 mins): This is your time to shine, you can either send over an example of your proudest work or we can send you a small exercise to demonstrate your skills
- Stage 3: Face-to-face interview (2 hours): Two 60-minute interviews to learn more about how you work. This will also be a great opportunity for you to meet the rest of the team so we would love it if you can come into the office for it! Interviews will be structured as follows:
- Experience interview: We'll deep dive into your technical experience, talk about projects you've worked on and work through designing a system on a whiteboard
- Values interview: We want to learn more about how you work - we’ll ask you questions related to our principles (Our DNA). This stage will be with two people from our wider team
- We’ll also include a 15-minute comfort break ☕️
- Stage 4: We’ll also do a reference check - ideally with a previous manager on the phone
- Stage 5: Offer If everyone’s happy, we’ll make you an offer to join us - YAY! 🎉 We hope to always give you a decision between each stage within 24 hours (where possible)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Two of Yonder's founders moved to the UK from Australia and despite having a stable income and a mortgage back in Australia, struggled to access high-quality credit products. After realising this was the case for over 8.3M people in the UK, they wanted to make money rewarding and credit-empowering; thus, Yonder was born.
The company promises to offer a modern rewards credit/debit card with no foreign exchange fees, worldwide travel insurance, and more. The team has significant experience in this space, having worked for multiple years at ClearScore, one of the UK's largest consumer credit marketplaces. By prioritising the customer, not the bank, Yonder offers a highly appealing alternative to traditional credit card options.
Further, the company has secured significant additional funding to expand into new verticals and launch in new UK cities. And with paid and free membership options, Yonder is widening their market and making sure there's an option for everyone.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2024
$31.6m
EARLY VC
Apr 2023
$16.9m
SERIES A
Total funding: $76.5m
Company benefits
- 35 holidays a year (27 + 8 public holidays)
- £750 learning and training allowance every year
- Monthly team breakfast and social events
- Free breakfast, snacks, and stocked drinks fridge
- We’re office-first, based in Hoxton
- We pay 75-90th percentile in our industry, plus equity
- Cycle to work scheme
- Private Healthcare, including vision, dental & mental health
- Opportunity to try loads of restaurants across London
- 16 weeks enhanced parental leave
Company values
- Obsess over customers: We sweat the details and make every moment so seamless; it feels magical. We’re famous for how we go above and beyond for our customers
- Act like an owner: We take accountability for our successes and failures and set high standards. We always act in the best interests of Yonder and society
- Move quickly and learn: We move quickly to deliver high impact results and aren’t afraid to learn from mistakes. We don’t wait for someone else to do it; we step up when we see a gap
- Embrace the challenge, together: Great work is always done by great teams. We ask for help and generously support each other
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Tim Chong
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Head of Product at ClearScore, where they worked for 3 years. Prior to that, spent 6 years at Accenture where they were a Growth Strategy Manager & Australia Lead.
Harry Jell
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously Lead Developer at ClearScore, where they spent 4 years. Prior to that, they spent 2 years at OpenMarket as a Software Developer.
Theso Jivajirajah
(Co-Founder & Chief Risk Officer)Previously Data Science Lead at ClearScore for 3 years. Prior to that, built up 10 years of experience in finance & credit at Commonwealth Bank, Deloitte, and Vanquis Bank.
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