Product Engineer

StrideUp's mission is to redefine the standard of Islamic financial services through expertise, sincerity, and a personable approach. Our vision is to enable the Muslim community to access financial solutions aligned with their values. On our path to building a digital bank, we started with property finance and have already deployed hundreds of millions in financing, and supported thousands of people in their financial goals.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing, mission-driven company at the forefront of Islamic financial services.

StrideUp is backed by leading VC and private equity investors, having raised over £25m in funding. 

The Role

You’ll join our talented Engineering team that’s passionate about creating high-quality software to help our customers build their financial future and assist our business teams in delivering outstanding customer experiences.

As a Product Engineer, you’ll work across the entire stack to deliver features end to end — from shaping technical requirements to writing scalable, maintainable code. You’ll also play a key role in evolving our platform to support growing complexity and usage.

You’ll work closely with product and customer facing teams to understand user needs and turn them into intuitive and elegant solutions. This is a hands-on engineering role where attention to detail, empathy for users, and a commitment to continuous improvement are essential.

You’ll be trusted to take ownership of your work, contribute ideas, and help us scale both our technology and customer impact as we grow.

You Are

• Standards-Driven Engineer: You take pride in delivering clean, reliable code and consistently uphold team engineering principles in your work.
• Eager Learner: You actively seek opportunities to improve, welcome feedback, and contribute your growing expertise to support team success.
• Collaborative Teammate: You thrive in a team environment, contribute to a positive culture, and work well with others to solve problems and deliver value.
• Customer-Aware Builder: You consider the customer impact of your work and make pragmatic technical choices to support user and business needs.
• Clear Communicator: You communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues, asking questions to clarify requirements and aligning on expectations.
• Responsible Contributor: You take ownership of your tasks, raise issues early, and keep your manager informed of progress and support needed.
• Practical Problem-Solver: You approach technical challenges with curiosity and persistence, contributing thoughtful, effective solutions that add real value.

What You'll Do

• Write code!: Consistently deliver clean, maintainable and well-tested code to production.
• Shape the platform: Contribute to architectural decisions and help define the future direction of our systems.
• Focus on the customer: Work with the Product Owner to ensure changes deliver the best outcomes for users and the business.
• Collaborate as a team: Work closely with other engineers to uphold and improve our engineering standards and best practices.
• Build for scale and security: Ensure all development meets high standards for scalability, performance, and security.
• Own the production environment: Monitor releases, ensure stability, and respond effectively to incidents.
• Support the business: Help deliver an excellent customer experience by responding to support requests from internal teams.

Requirements

Top Skills/Experience Required

• 3+ years of Javascript, Typescript
• Experience with NestJS, Prisma, React and PostgreSQL
• 1+ years of AWS, Docker, Terraform or similar
• Familiarity with modern development tools and practices, including Git, CI/CD pipelines, and testing frameworks.
• Developed business applications, ideally in financial services , with involvement in the end-to-end system design
• Knowledge of best practices building clean, testable code, following domain-driven design principles

Benefits

• Salary: Competitive, based on experience
• 25 days annual holiday
• Annual L&D budget
• 3% pension contribution
• Monthly socials
• Central London location (this is an hybrid role with an expectation of at least 3 days in the office)
• Friendly and informal startup environment with a focus on performance and impact

Equal Opportunity Employer

StrideUp is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We celebrate the diversity of our team and encourage applications from all individuals, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, pregnancy, or any other characteristic.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and look forward to seeing how you can contribute to our mission.