Back End Web Engineer

Sr. Back-End Web Engineer

Location: Remote

About Us

Moneyboat.co.uk is a UK short-term Direct Lender offering loans from £200 - £1,500 for up to six months. It was founded in 2014 with a vision to make a mark as a company that values transparency, affordability, and quality service. We know the value of flexibility, creativity, and innovation in today’s fintech space, and strive to provide our customers with a positive, simple, and trustworthy experience.

Job Summary

Come join our software development team of Full-Stack engineers, building and maintaining our loan offering solution. We are looking for a seasoned Backend engineer with initiative, drive and good communication skills to come and develop with us the next generation of our service.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and modernise our web service offering.
• Design, architect & plan from feature and Epic level up to new services and architecture.
• Work closely with key stakeholders in the business and tech teams to define best of breed solutions & optimal business processes through our web apps.
• Help optimise performance, scalability, observability and reliability of our service stack.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Mature knowledge & hands on experience in building modern web-services in both monolith and microservice architectures.Hands on experience with: Typescript, Javascript & PHP, preferable with known and established backend frameworks. (NestJS, Laravel or similar).
• Alternately, strong knowledge of other backend technologies like Java, Python is also acceptable.
• Experience in building modern API based solutions, including design and implementation best practices.
• Expert in working with RDBM / SQL solutions like MySQL, PostgreSQL or similar. Working with noSQL solutions - a big plus.
• Focus on high code quality, correct architecture & design in building solutions, always aiming to implement industry best practices.Solid experience in unit testing, integration testing and supporting tooling.
• Team player, supporting peers’ growth, focused on delivering as a team while keeping good spirits.
• Good analytical skills, problem solving and algorithmic design. Experience in the financial industry - a plus.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Understanding of Linux servers, Cloud services (AWS, GCP), server administration.
• Experience in the DevOps world, version control, CI/CD, automation.
• Knowledge / abilities in Front-End development are warmly welcome.
• Experience in observability, service monitoring, measuring & optimising performance for backend services, and working in large scale services.

Employee Benefits

• Hybrid model
• Time-off on Birthday
• Wellbeing days
• Gym benefits
• Childcare benefits
• Access to learning platform
• State of the art equipment