Seccl - Senior software engineer (Node.js/TypeScript)
Requirements
• To own your services from design to operation. We operate a build-and-run model where engineers have autonomy but full accountability. • We care deeply about correctness, resilience and operational excellence because our systems underpin real customer investments. • Engineers are not passengers in their products but champions. Drive improvements and features while collaborating openly with product, operations and engineering colleagues, challenging ideas constructively and focusing on delivering the best outcomes for customers. • Have a strong ability to understand business and customer problems and turn them into efficient, scalable solutions. Be curious about how investment and custody products operate, and pragmatic in balancing customer value, operational correctness, engineering quality and long-term scalability. • Experience building financial systems with multi-region, multi-currency or trading-related complexity would be advantageous. • Experience in a strongly/statically typed language. • Have a strong understanding of designing, building, and running high-quality, standards-compliant workflow APIs, with a focus on testing, observability, and performance. • Have worked with a cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP). We use AWS. • Have worked with distributed systems and are comfortable debugging through tracing and observability. • Willing to be on-call for your services. • Strong commercial experience with Node.js, specifically TypeScript • Experience with document databases, ideally MongoDB • Experience leading technical delivery in a build-and-run engineering model • Experience in a structured on-call process and incident management • Experience working in regulated industries, ideally financial services or FinTech. • This role isn’t for you if... • You rely on a lot of top-down direction. Here, you’ll have a lot of freedom and ownership of your role, and you’ll be expected to shape your own progression, bring forward ideas, and spot opportunities to improve bring forward ideas, and spot opportunities to improve • You’re not comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. Our speed and scalability are what set us apart; you need to be able to act quickly and think on your feet • You struggle to follow through on ideas. We value people who do what they say they will. If you care about something, you have the freedom here to make it happen • You don’t like change. You’ll get on great here if you relish the ambiguity of rapid growth and are willing to embrace uncertainty
Responsibilities
• Work collaboratively in a domain aligned cross-functional squad made up of engineers and product along with colleagues from customer-facing and operations teams. • Design, implement and operate your services within your domain. • Be accountable for the SLAs of your products and iterative improvements. • Maintain and extend documentation for your services. • Foster a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence while understanding when “good enough for now” is appropriate. • Provide guidance and mentorship for more junior engineers. • Communicate with non-technical colleagues to answer queries about the Seccl system.
Benefits
• We offer a generous mix of benefits for the things that really matter to our people, including: • 🌴 27 days holiday + bank holidays (some can be flexible) + day off on your birthday + three days (full time) per year for Dependant leave • 💙 Two volunteering days per year • 🏅 Length of service award – one month paid sabbatical at eight years • ✅ 6% employer pension contribution, and life assurance • 🏥 Private medical insurance with AXA Health • 👪 Enhanced Parental leave • 💻 MacBook and up to £500 home office set up budget • 📖 £750 per person learning budget • 🌎 Option to work abroad for up to six weeks a year • 🌻 Health and wellbeing initiatives including free therapy via Wellness Cloud, mental health support via Headspace • 🌱 Strong financial wellbeing focus including access to Octopus Money, Octopus Share Incentive Plan and will writing offering via Octopus Legacy • 🎁 Perkbox – Flexi-points giving you a range of discounts and perks including free weekly coffee, gym and retail discounts • 🚲 Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work and Octopus Electric Vehicle Leasing
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