Senior Backend Software Engineer, Bud
£80-95k
AI-driven financial data platform
Posted today
AI-driven financial data platform
21-100 employees
Posted today
£80-95k
21-100 employees
Company mission
We're here to create the world’s most compelling financial data products.
Role
Who you are
- Proficient in Go
- You care deeply about best practices and are passionate about clean, scalable and performant code
- Strong understanding of application, information and infrastructure architectures
- Passionate about keeping up to date with new tools and technologies
- You champion quality standards and ensure thorough testing in your work across unit and E2E tests
What the job involves
- Your mission is to work within an innovative team developing performant, scalable and reliable applications in Go
- As a Backend Engineer, you'll be a key part of the development and maintenance of our back-end systems which are the foundation of our company's products and services. You’ll collaborate closely with our team of engineers to design, build, and test our systems
- You'll be working with a modern stack including:
- Go to develop and maintain our backend and data engineering projects
- A range of data stores including MySQL, Cassandra, Redis and BigQuery
- RabbitMQ for queues
- Internal services communication with both HTTP and gRPC
- An observability stack that counts on GrafanaLab, Loki, Tempo, Looker, and more
- Cloud environments - Google Cloud Platform
- Experience with Docker and / or Kubernetes is a bonus!
- We believe in a highly collaborative environment where everyone’s contributions are valued and trusted
- Delivering technical solutions independently and in collaboration with the team
- Leading and contributing to conversations and initiatives with other backend developers and the team; sharing knowledge and contributing to technical best practices
- Building strong relationships within the team and wider organisation, actively mentoring and supporting through technical guidance and feedback
- Keeping up to date with new tools and practices, continuously seeking to improve your own technical expertise, domain knowledge and skills
- Communicating effectively in both technical and non-technical discussions
- Comfortable making appropriate trade-offs in project scoping and delivery considering maintainability, scalability, and time to deliver in collaboration with the team and other stakeholders
- Working closely with our cross-functional team to align on implementation and solutions
Our take
Data is a valuable commodity in today's environment, fuelling intelligent decisions across industries. For the finance space, Bud delivers a platform to turn transactional data into intelligent financial insights, that enable its clients to tailor consumer experiences for lending and money management.
Trusted by big financial players including the likes of HSBC, Bud supplies a range of APIs and off-the-shelf products to help lenders and banks be more flexible and scalable, on top of its AI-driven data intelligence offering. It has processed over 2.5 billion transactions to date, and has recently secured impressive investment from TransUnion, a global insights and information company. This strategic partnership will help drive innovation and growth in the personal finance market, in support of better outcomes for consumers.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2022
$80m
SERIES B
Feb 2019
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $102m
Company benefits
- 💰Competitive salaries & annual salary reviews.
- 💰Pension. We’ll match pension contributions up to 5% through our scheme with Aviva
- 📚Learning & Development Budget. £1000 a year to accelerate your learning
- 📈Career Progression. We have uniquely built out progression frameworks to help accelerate your growth and quarterly R&D days
- 🧘♂️Mental Health Support. Online therapy and resources through our partners at Spill
- 🏋️♀️Wellbeing Allowance. £50 a month to use towards your wellbeing
- 🏥Private Medical Insurance through Vitality
- ⏳Flexible Working. We trust our team to get the job done and will support various flexible working arrangements as part of our hybrid approach, which includes our 60-day work abroad allowance
- 🏖️Time Off. 25 days + Bank Holidays +additional time over the holiday season
- 🍼Parental Leave. On top of our enhanced parental leave, we also offer 5 days of paid fertility leave and 10 days of paid pregnancy loss leave as we know the journey to parenthood isn’t always straightforward
- 🫶Volunteering Leave. 2 days off a year to spend time on projects and initiatives that matter to you
Company values
- Quality. Quality & excellence is embedded in everything we do, from the products we have to the way we communicate and treat people. We don’t just meet standards, we are constantly exploring ways we can exceed them and improve and build quality products we’re proud of. This enables us to grow as individuals and as a business.
- Authenticity. Our team is made up of people from all walks of life who bring unique strengths, ideas and opinions. We embrace our differences as opportunities to expand our horizons and achieve our goals. We know our strengths, but equally our weaknesses, and aren’t afraid to admit when we’re wrong. Being humble and honest means we can do and be better.
- Grit. We have big goals that we want to achieve, and know that the only way we’ll get there is by embracing challenges and working hard to deliver the best. When things get tough we don't hide - we're resilient, get ready to go again, and make it happen.
- Collaboration. For us, this extends beyond just communication, to our culture of sharing ideas and of working as a team, meaning we can build better things and deliver time and again. As a team, we pick each other up when things don’t go to plan and celebrate our victories together. We leave no one behind.
Company HQ
Finsbury, London, UK
Leadership
Edward Maslaveckas
(CEO)Previously worked for Salesforce as a SMB Business Development Specialist.
George Dunning
(COO)Has worked as a Web Developer for One Darnley Road, and as a Technical Developer at Somewhat_.
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