Senior Staff Backend EngineerActive£155K–£200K

The opportunity

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.

What you'll do

  • Partner with Engineering Directors to shape the technical and product: direction of a collective , providing leadership across multiple squads (30–70+ engineers) and ensuring alignment with company-wide priorities.

  • Be hands on in both coding and architecture, leading from the front.

  • Partner closely with Product and Design leadership to define strategy, shape: roadmaps, and make high-quality trade-offs that maximise business and customer impact across the collective .

  • Mobilise teams across your collective around high-impact problems , creating: clarity, alignment and momentum, injecting urgency when needed, or slowing things down to ensure safety and long-term sustainability.

  • Lead and influence architectural direction for the most complex systems,: ensuring cohesive, scalable designs across multiple teams and aligning local decisions with the broader system strategy .

  • Set and uphold a high bar for technical excellence across the collective,: driving improvements in quality, reliability and scalability, and fostering a culture where engineers hold each other to that standard .

What they're looking for

  • Proactively mentor, sponsor and develop senior engineers and future leaders ,: multiplying your impact by enabling others to operate at a higher level.
  • Go to write our application code (there’s an excellent interactive Go tutorial here )
  • Cassandra for most persistent data storage
  • Kafka for our asynchronous message queue