Software Engineer, Griffin

Infrastructure & Tooling

£60-85k

Tax-advantaged stock options under HMRC's Company Share Option Plan (CSOP)

AWS

Kubernetes

TypeScript

Bazel

Mid and Senior level

Remote in Germany, Ireland, UK

London

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

Tax-advantaged stock options under HMRC's Company Share Option Plan (CSOP)

AWS

Kubernetes

TypeScript

Bazel

Mid and Senior level

Remote in Germany, Ireland, UK

London

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

We don’t expect you to have experience with every product we use, but we do want you to have a grasp of the underlying principles of most and be able to pick up the specifics as you go
Deeper knowledge in any of the following areas, allowing you to critically examine some of our existing systems and processes for potential improvements or alternatives soon after joining, is ideal: Infrastructure as code, Core cloud provider services (IAM, VPC, compute, object storage etc), Kubernetes, Build tooling, Distribute systems, IP Networking.
You will be writing code for internal tools as well as infrastructure as part of this role, and we want that to meet the same standard as application code written by the product engineering teams
You should have a good knowledge of software engineering practices, especially with regards to security and testing
Operational experience with any of the specific products we currently use (AWS, Bazel, CDK, FoundationDB, CircleCI) is a further advantage, but not required
The cloud engineering team is often directed by the technical requirements of other parts of the company, so you need to be able to research new products and make sensible suggestions rapidly
An ability for self-directed learning is a must

What the job involves

Cloud engineering is a small team within the larger engineering group. We’re ultimately responsible for making sure that the systems are in place to test, build, deploy, and run our applications quickly, correctly, and securely
You'll be responsible for building, operating and monitoring our production infrastructure. We are building a bank that will handle thousands of transactions per second. Correctness, performance, and reliability are paramount
Writing infrastructure as code to configure our AWS accounts and regions in a standard and repeatable way
Managing our base infrastructure, Kubernetes, and FoundationDB
Writing internal tools to turn what are currently periodic manual processes into automated ones
Speeding up our Continuous Deployment pipeline
Developing our resilience from automated availability zone failure recovery to full regional failover
Supporting other engineering teams with new infrastructure requests, and building out self-service tooling for them to use in future
Improving our scalability with deployment and cluster autoscaling based on internal custom metrics
Writing internal tools to make monitoring, logging, alerting, and debugging easier and faster
Writing code to verify our systems are correct after power / network etc. failures, a restore from backup, or disaster-recovery failover to secondary regions

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

$23.7m

SERIES A

Mar 2023

$13.7m

SERIES A

Total funding: $66.2m

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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