Backend Engineer, ClearScore
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2-5 days a week in office
Financial wellbeing marketplace
Posted today
Financial wellbeing marketplace
501-1000 employees
Posted today
More information about location
2-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
ClearScore's vision is to help everyone, no matter what their circumstances, achieve greater financial wellbeing. They've started this journey by giving everybody access to their credit score and report for free, forever.
Role
Who you are
- ClearScore is searching for a talented backend engineer to join our growing technology team
- We are searching for someone who is a self-starter and can build technologies from 0 to 1 as well as take ownership of projects
- We are always looking for ways to do things better and encourage new joiners to bring their ideas and ways of working to the table. Teach us some cool stuff and we'll teach you some, but most of all, you'll have fun doing it
What the job involves
- You will influence the direction of critical ClearScore services and tools that allow us to scale rapidly
- You’ll be joining a squad, focused on building a ground up platform that will deliver a market leading product in the credit marketplace
- When joining our team, you'll contribute to a global micro-services architecture written in Scala, using functional programming to really provide value to our users
- Currently, our micro-services communicate via REST API calls, fostering seamless integration between different services
- You will actively participate in our ongoing transition towards an event-driven architecture, utilising Kafka as a core component
- You'll also work with:
- The Typelevel Stack (Cats, Cats Effect, http4s, Circe), Kafka, SBT and occasionally Akka HTTP
- A world-class SRE team who champion our “you build it you run it” principle, empowering our developers to work with AWS, Kubernetes and Spinnaker
- A Quality Assistance programme to build, test, release and monitor your own work
- TDD and peer-reviewing enabling you to do frequent yet resilient releases to global services
- You will be joining:
- A cross-functional squad, to collaborate closely with Frontend Developers, Mobile developers, Test Engineers and product managers to build new features on one of our apps
- A global community of ~50 backend developers from diverse backgrounds. We are a big fan of coding bootcamps and see the great value non-traditional routes into technical careers can bring to the team
- A global team of ~150 developers in ClearScore’s technology function
- A learning culture, where everyone is supported in drawing up an annual Personal Development Plan
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The number of loan options for consumers has exploded in recent years, making credit assessment super important for companies offering these loans and giving ClearScore a big market to grow into.
Traditionally, lenders had a more 'computer says no' approach when it came to making loan decisions. With the wealth of data now available on people, credit assessment can be made smarter. ClearScore's approach has been to add on innovative products outside of credit scoring, e.g. helping consumers understand how to improve their financial position and offering car and home insurance.
In 2025, the company secured impressive funding from HSBC to fuel its product line and customer service channel growth. It has also successfully acquired a number of smaller fintechs, such as Money Dashboard in 2022 and Aro Finance in January 2025, further aiding ClearScore in its growth mission and product expansion.
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Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"We have a really clear mission and with that, it means everything you work on is to improve for our users and make the world of personal finance..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2024
$4.7m
GRANT
Jun 2021
$200m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $220.3m
Company benefits
- Additional day off on your birthday
- Flexible, generous and personalised maternity and paternity plans
- Company personal trainer, boxing and yoga classes
- Very flexible work hours and the ability to work from home
- In house psychotherapist, coach and financial coach
- Dog friendly office
- Pay transparency for every level across the business
- Hatch - Financial Planning support
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- We deliver
- We lead
- We fight
- We are disciplined
- We are proud
- We obsess
- We fail and fix fast
- We are focused
Company HQ
Vauxhall, London, UK
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Leadership
Justin
(Co-Founder & Group CEO)CMO at Zapp, Vice President of Marketing at Capital One and Global Head of Marketing at Deutsche Bank. Founded ALLOW in 2010, helping people get in control of their personal information.
Dan
(Co-Founder)Currently Managing Partner at Blenheim Chalcot, the venture builder where ClearScore was started
Nigel
(Chairman)Currently Managing Partner of QED Investors. Co-founder of Capital One
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at ClearScore
- Active Employee Representative Group discussing D&I initiatives with every team
- Mental Health support and Mental Health days available
- Mandatory Unconscious Bias training for every interviewer
- Clear goals to decrease Pay Gap communicated openly in company meetings
- Regularly check-in via anonymous feedback to ensure high Diversity & Inclusion scores in our employee experience
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