Golang Engineer, Curve
Data
Consolidating all a customer's bank cards into a single card
Open for applications
Consolidating all a customer's bank cards into a single card
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify the way people spend, send, see and save money.
Role
Who you are
- In-depth knowledge of Golang (additional experience with Python is a bonus)
- Experience of building microservices; ideally deployed in containers on Kubernetes
- Experience of agile development practices
- Experience with RDBMS & NoSQL datastores
- Bonus points for real-time low-latency high-frequency transaction based systems
- Ability to diagnose problems at any level (Client, HTTP/Network, Server, Database, OS) and provide sound rationale behind technical decisions
- Demonstrable experience of building large concurrent and distributed applications
- Bonus points for experience with event driven architectures
- Bonus points for experience working with Data Warehousing and/or ML
- A genuine interest in working in a fast paced startup and ideally FinTech or Payments
- Voracious appetite for learning
What the job involves
- The purpose of the Backend Software Engineer will be to support the build of elegant, performant, maintainable, operable and secure Golang microservices, to help design and architect our systems, and to develop and to continue the journey of continuous improvement to make the team the best that it can be
- Delivering clean, architecturally sound and maintainable server-side code; bonus points for full-stack development experience
- Collaborating with stakeholders in the company to rapidly build-measure-learn a world-class product
- Working with our data and engineering teams to constantly iterate on the company’s development processes
- Motivating the team past roadblocks to make sure we are shipping features as effectively as possible
- Guiding design discussions; being the voice of experience with helping the team balance flexibility, expediency, scalability and performance
- Championing new technologies and enforcing the best development patterns
- Keeping a keen eye on the future, whilst making sure we’re proactively but pragmatically tackling technical debt
- Projects/initiatives that we want you to contribute to or lead the charge on:
- Building the vision of Curve as a connected platform, integrating seamlessly with best-in-class app, tools and services
- Connecting the financial world for customers by bringing together account and transactional data that will enable better financial decisions and outcomes
- Spend analytics, insights and recommendations, using data and machine learning
- Financial product marketplace:credit, savings and other products and services to improve the financial lives of customers
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-on-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 gorundwork for future collaborations.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2023
$71.3m
SERIES C
May 2021
$11.2m
LATE VC
Total funding: $246.3m
Company HQ
Paddington, London, UK
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Leadership
Shachar Bialick
(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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