Senior Software Engineer - Systems

Job Description

Employees work hard and have to wait to get paid monthly, while their financial wellbeing is under pressure; With Wagestream, you can give people power over their pay and remove that financial stress. Did you know, the lowest 10% of earners in the UK makebanks the most money in fees, charges and interestHere at Wagestream, we believe that is fundamentally wrong - and we are on a mission for change. Financial Wellness is a new "ish" term in the software world, but we are having a big impact. We are backedby social impact charities such as Big Society Capital, and the Social Tech Trust - we are more than just a FinTech.There are a lot of software buzzwords that come in and out of fashion, and we dont think Earned Wage Access is one of them, we know we arehere to stay. Whats the end game Easy. Financial Wellness for everyone, everywhere. #PowerOverPay*About the role:*Were looking for senior customer-focused engineers to join our Systems Engineering team. The Systems Engineering team is responsible for developingand maintaining the heart of the Wagestream platform, and covers areas such as payments (where we move billions of currency), communications (such as email and push notifications), and our primary application-facing APIs.Engineers in the Systems team makea meaningful impact to our customers by building new features that solve additional user problems and strengthen our value proposition, as well as improving the quality and reliability of our existing features, resulting in higher customer satisfaction andincreased user engagement with our product. Senior Engineers joining our team are given significant responsibility to quickly develop new features.*About the team:*The Systems team is a small, experienced and highly effective team staffed with Senior & Principallevel engineers. Each week we host a cross-functional planning session where we agree the priorities for the coming week, discuss the scope of work and resolve any ambiguities. We then run a daily stand-up in collaboration with the Apps & Product teams, wherewe aim to resynchronise our understanding of key priorities and resolve any blockers. The Systems team pushes straight to production using a modern CI/CD based on GitHub Actions and AWS ECS.*Responsibilities:** Architect, develop, test, and maintain code tomove money in GBP, EUR, USD and AUD via the various global banking payment schemes (BACS, FPS, SEPA, ACH, NPP, Visa Direct, Mastercard MoneySend)* Obsessing over speed. Currently, 99% of all Wagestream transfers settle within 4 seconds, and weve achievedthat record by being absolutely maniacal about speed. But we can always be faster. And for the 1% that dont settle that quickly, we could be MUCH faster.* Build metrics and dashboards to monitor banking infrastructure.* Contribute to the broader engineeringteam (best practices, tools, technologies)* Ship quickly, fail sometimes, deliver constantly*Must-haves: ** Youre fast, customer-focused and have a full-stack engineering background* Solution design and architecture knowledge* Fluency with Python, SQL, andREST APIs* Deep experience with the AWS stack. We are heavy users of DyanmoDB, SQS, S3, SES, Lambdas, API Gateway, etc. *Can-be-learnts:** Prior experience with banking or payments is nice, but not required*Within 1 month youll have: ** Developed a good understandingof our System architecture, and how we make changes to it* Delivered at least 1 meaningful feature into users hands*Within 3 months youll: ** Have developed strong relationships with the entire engineering team, and be able to collaborate with them cross-functionallyas required* Be able to lead on development of significant features, taking work through from idea, to technical design, implementation, testing and ultimately deployment*Within 6 months youll have: ** Become a subject-matter expert on multiple key Wagestreamsystems* Delivered multiple features from conception to production that have satisfied users and contributed to the companys success-* We will pay you what youre worth. We are fully committed to closing the gender pay gap, promoting diversity and inclusivity,and paying people what they deserve to be paid.* Were a Remote First business - work from home or our London office - you choose! We have team members everywhere, from Cornwall to Glasgow - we place an emphasis on finding the right people in any location,not any people in the right location.* We will help you manage your busy lifestyle with flexible working opportunities, most of the team work "core hours" to allow touchpoints with your team, but we also make sure you have the time to pick the kids up at 3pm,or go for that mid-morning run to boost your productivity. We want you to have the best of both worlds.* We offer 25 days annual leave in addition to public holidays (up to 5 day rollover), as well as flexible time off allowances for any ad-hoc childcare/family/caringneeds.* We offer 12 weeks paid maternity leave and up to 4 weeks paid paternity leave for employees with over 12 months service* We will support you with your career endeavours. We are committed to internal progression, and offering our team members the bestopportunities for growth. We want to invest in you the same way youre going to invest in us!* If you love cycling as much as we do, keep yourself physically fit with our Evans Cycles Ride to Work scheme* And after a long weeks work, join us in undoing itall - with membership to The Wine Society. (They also do gin and beer!)* We want everyone to achieve "zen mastery" with a free subscription to Calmwork can be stressful (we know!) and we want to help you switch off* And the best benefit of all... Free accessto Wagestream service - naturally!* 30 min introductory call with [Sophie](https://in/sophiemcgowan/)* 50 min Zoom with [Nick](https://in/rogersnm/)- technical screening and short pair programming exercise* 2 x 50 min Technical Paired Sessions with SeniorEngineers (Onsite or Zoom)* 30 min Onsite with [Portman](https://in/portmanwills/)AWS, DynamoDB, PythonPython, SQL, REST