Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Remote/Old Street, London

Salary: £60k-£90k a year (DOE)

Hours: 40 hrs/week, 7am - 7pm core hours

Department: Engineering Team

Experience level: Senior

About us:

TotallyMoney is the free personal finance app that gives people the plans, products, and help they need to unlock a life of more choices. It's all about creating a fairer financial world where people who've been left behind can make their financial data work for them. Put simply, we help them move closer towards their financial goals.

We're a diverse bunch from different backgrounds, united by a company culture that promotes autonomy, collaboration and innovation. We've even been voted one of the UK's Best Companies to Work For!

If you want to join our mission to help the UK's most under-served consumers - we want to hear from you!

What you'll do:

As part of the Engineering Team, your responsibilities will include:

• Delivery of new products, features and supporting systems
• Maintaining and improving our existing products
• Aiding your squad to deliver meaningful outcomes

Here's what a normal day in the job might look like:

• Taking a requirement and building a context around it
• Exploring asynchronous architecture
• Exploring an idea with your Product Manager or UX colleague
• Refactoring code
• Fixing an issue and pushing it to production

Succeeding in your first few months includes:

• Gaining expertise in your domain
• Delivering right-sized work
• You augment your squad and improve outcomes

Requirements

Here's what we think you'll need to succeed in this role:

• You approach things with curiosity
• You are good at turning ambiguity into consensus
• You learn from failure
• You have a good understanding of system design
• You have an agile mindset
• You have a good understanding of OOP (or additional bonus functional programming)
• You understand what is required to ship
• You can review code
• You want code to be well-written and appropriately tested
• You can give and receive feedback constructively

It'll help if you know your way around these tools/apps:

• A slew of AWS services
• Use of command line
• Docker/containerisation
• A range of infra as code tools like CDK
• CI/CD pipelines
• github
• observability tools like DataDog

We use these languages at TotallyMoney:

• C# dotnet
• TypeScript/JavaScript (backend)
• F# (not essential)

You'll excel if you're the type of person who:

• Eager to experiment and try new technologies and techniques
• You're someone who takes ownership and who tries to learn as much as possible
• Willingness to take new responsibilities
• Capable of working with minimal guidance to flesh out product requirements and communicate deliverables with stakeholders
• Has alignment with our company values and engineering principles
• Has 3 or more years of experience as a Back-End engineer or with similar technologies
• Proven experience developing new systems & owning end-to-end development cycles

We know people, especially those from marginalised backgrounds, may hesitate to apply if they don't meet all the requirements. Please apply anyway. We don't expect you to be the complete package, just show us you have ambition and a willingness to learn.

Benefits

Working at TotallyMoney has its perks. When you join the team, you'll get:

Hybrid working - We operate a hybrid policy. 2 days of your choice in our office.

🕙 Flexible hours - Our core hours are 7 am to 7 pm. Fit your hours within that, however you like.

25 days of annual leave (plus 8 bank holidays), 2 additional free days off at Christmas time, and the option to purchase an extra week off.

40 days to work abroad - make us jealous of your stunning view.

Parental leave so you can spend time with your new bundle of joy.

2 days leave to volunteer for whatever causes you're passionate about! Plus, the opportunity to give back during work with various charity events.

Unlimited sick leave so you can take the time needed to get better.

Vitality Health Insurance and reward scheme (inc. 50% off Virgin Active gyms, free access to Headspace, and so much more).

Perkbox membership for a range of great discounts and freebies.

Cycle to Work scheme and great on-site facilities to accommodate those who choose to cycle or run to work.

Prayer/quiet room with privacy curtain and prayer mats.

Auto-enrolment pension scheme with Scottish Widows.

Mental health and well-being perks include talking therapies with Self-space and 'in-the-moment' assistance via our Employee Assistance Programme by Viviup.

You'll find a pup or 2 around our dog-friendly office.

2 annual company socials, regular team socials throughout the year, and an all-company invitation to Thursday drinks (ping pong and darts optional).

🥐 Free breakfast on Thursdays at our company morning meeting.

Snack jars filled with goodies, coffee machines with Caravan coffee, and a great range of herbal teas - help yourself!

⚽ Hobby clubs and activities like padel, Catan, and book club - you could even start your own!

A cultural focus on learning and development, with in-house and external training, is a part of our monthly company agenda.

FORA building membership with access to various in-building perks such as socials, breakfasts, a running track, and fitness classes.

The hiring process:

Once we've received your application, we'll take a good look before getting in touch with you to discuss the next steps of the process. This will include:

• Screen call with Sarah - People Experience Manager (15 mins)
• Values and Experience fit interview with Steve - Head of Engineering (45 mins)
• A take-home technical test (with review)
• Panel interview to present tech test to other engineers (1 hour 30 mins)
• Final chat with Ali, CEO, and Steve, Head of Engineering (45 mins)
• Offer

How to apply:

Want to join our ambitious team? Fill in your application and submit today! If you have any questions, you can reach out to [email protected]

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion:

At TotallyMoney, we're committed to being an inclusive and diverse employer, and we welcome applications from all sections of society. We have an active DE&I (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) committee led by employees and continually work on our DE&I efforts. We believe everyone has potential, regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, physical or mental ability, social background, age, nationality, marital, domestic, or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other differences that make you, you.