Staff Engineer, Equals
3-5 days a week in office
Payments, cards, and expenses, made simple
Job no longer available
Payments, cards, and expenses, made simple
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
3-5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make money management as simple as possible for their customers.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for experienced and ambitious Senior or Lead Engineers looking to step into a Staff Engineering role, or Staff Engineers looking for a new challenge
- The person should be comfortable dipping in and out of different problems, juggling priorities and have a ‘Make it Happen’ attitude
- This person should also have Payments, Financial Services or other FinTech related experience
- Proven experience working with payments platforms, transaction processing, or fintech environments
- Strong understanding of API design, microservices architecture, and distributed systems
- Experience in backend development using Node.js, including building RESTful APIs and working with databases
- Knows when to utilise emerging low-code platforms like Retool
- Experience with AWS
- Experience with GitHub Actions
- Knowledge of payment processing standards, security, PCI compliance, and risk management
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a focus on delivering scalable, secure, and efficient solutions
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience mentoring and guiding junior engineers
What the job involves
- As a Staff Engineer at Equals, you will play a critical role in designing, building, and scaling our payments platform
- You will work across the stack, with a focus on backend services in Node.js and frontend components in React, to deliver high-performance, reliable, and secure payment solutions
- You will sit in our continuous improvement team, dedicated to resolving challenging problems that arise from customer feedback, technical debt, and bugs
- You will be able to work with emerging technologies like Retool to design solutions to internal and external business problems
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Born in 2005 out of a desire to use technology to give customers a better deal, Equals' mission is to make money simple for everyone. Founded under the name "FairFX", Equals has been helping customers move and manage their money for years. The company consists of three brands, all working together to provide financial solutions for personal and business customers alike.
Having started as a foreign exchange platform, Equals is evolving into a broader money management platform, moving from originally international payments and travel money towards integrated money management solutions for consumers and businesses. The company covers a number of elements: travel, business expenses, personal finance, and payroll.
Equals has built great customer loyalty, strengthening its position in launching new products and helping it become a dominant force in the payments market. Looking to expand its financial services options for customers and secure its future, Equals agreed to an acquisition by embedded finance platform Railsr, which will be completed in the first half of 2025.
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Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Contributory pension
- Life assurance
- Health insurance through BUPA
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers a 24/7 confidential advice line for health, bereavement and other areas of support
- 25 days holiday per year + your birthday off
- We are members of the cycle to work scheme
- We offer Season Ticket Loans
- Free onsite Nuffield Health gym & pool (London) and discounted gym membership elsewhere
- Interbank currency rates on travel money and international transfers
- Opportunities for progression, development and learning new skills
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Ian Strafford-Taylor
(CEO)Before launching Equals, Ian was one of the founders of FairFX and was appointed a Director in 2007, Ian has also held a number of senior banking roles at Morgan Stanley and UBS.
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