Full Stack Engineer

Equals Money; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company in London seeks a Senior Full Stack Engineer to enhance and manage their Retool ecosystem. In this role, you will establish best practices for development, build components for internal use, and drive adoption across teams. Candidates should possess strong skills in JavaScript, SQL, and APIs. The company offers a supportive team environment, progression opportunities, and a competitive salary with benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

25 days holiday

Gym membership

Bupa Private Healthcare

Cycle to Work Scheme

Qualifications

• Strong full stack engineering background.
• Proven experience building and scaling internal tools.
• Ability to define and enforce development standards.

Responsibilities

• Define good practices for building applications.
• Build re-usable, common Retool components.
• Educate teams on proper usage of environments.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

SQL

APIs

Full stack engineering

Collaboration

Tools

Retool

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

About us

Over the last 18 years, we have helped over a million satisfied customers move and manage their money. Our award-winning product portfolio allows our customers to make low-cost multi-currency payments across various payment products. From travel money to transfers, currency hedging, to expense management, we are focused on a single goal of making it easy for our customers to manage and move their money.

As a business, we are committed to delivering value to our customers through the combination of advanced payments technology and personal expert service. We’re doing this by hiring exceptional people and are now looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer – Retool Platform to join our team.

Within our offices in London, Chester, and Europe, Equals comprises three business lines and brands - Equals Money, FairFX and CardOneMoney. You will join a very close-knit, talented and supportive team from various backgrounds who believe that bringing different perspectives together helps us understand our customers\' needs. United, by one thing: making money management straightforward and cost-effective for our customers.

About the role

This role is about owning and elevating our Retool ecosystem. We need a strong full stack engineer who can bring structure, consistency, and best practices to our internal tooling. You’ll define our delivery strategy, standardise implementation across our current Retool applications, workflows, and agents, while also enabling increased adoption across the organisation.

By building reusable components, delivery pipelines, and integrating secure development practices, you’ll ensure Retool is optimised to deliver at scale. This is both a hands-on engineering role and a platform-enablement role where you’ll empower other teams to build faster, safer, and better.

Success Criteria

• Delivers a clean, consistent and easy to use Retool ecosystem.
• Increases the overall usage and uptake of Retool across the build function and beyond.
• Builds and extends Retool components, templates & tools that enable ever quicker build.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Define good practices for building: Applications
• Define good practices for building: Workflows
• Define good practices for building: Agents
• Build re-usable, common Retool components.
• Educate teams on proper usage of environments.
• Ensure changes are delivered through a standardised delivery pipeline.
• Perform proof-of-concepts for new tooling approaches.
• Establish a well-organised structure for managing applications, workflows and agents.
• Integrate external design systems into Retool.
• Embed secure development practices.
• Align Retool’s permission model with in-house services.
• Establish test coverage for existing applications and workflows.
• Provide feedback & feature requests to Retool account managers.

Accountabilities

• Owns the technical direction and governance of the Retool ecosystem.
• Acts as the primary internal expert for Retool best practices.
• Ensures internal customers (builders) can leverage Retool effectively and safely.
• Drives adoption of shared components and templates to avoid duplication.

Essential Skills

• Strong full stack engineering background (JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, APIs).
• Proven experience building and scaling internal tools or low-code platforms.
• Ability to define and enforce development standards and security practices.
• Comfortable collaborating across multiple teams and functions.
• A role model for our values:
• Make it happen
• Succeed together
• Be the customer
• Go beyond

Desirable Skills

• Experience with Retool or similar internal developer platforms.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and secure SDLC practices.
• Familiarity with enterprise authentication & authorisation models.
• Background in integrating design systems into application frameworks.
• Experience driving adoption of developer tools in a scaling environment.

Our investment in you

We welcome people into Equals and desire to grow and develop our talented teams. We believe in teamwork and celebrating our successes. We strive to embrace our values. We want to put you in the driving seat of your career and achieve your full potential through growth opportunities and developmental support.

When you join Equals, we aim to help you to get more out of your career. We will also offer you the following benefits:

• A competitive salary benchmarked against a peer group.
• 25 days holiday per year + your birthday off.
• Opportunities for progression, development and learning new skills - £250 towards the cost of learning & development.
• Free onsite Nuffield Health gym & pool (London) and discounted gym membership elsewhere.
• GetActive with Aviva - Health and Wellbeing discounts on services and products.
• Interbank currency rates on travel money and international transfers.
• Bupa Private Healthcare.
• Free Eye Test and £50 up to the cost of glasses.
• EAP Service - Mental Health Services.
• Life Assurance Policy - x3 annual salary.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Season Ticket Loans.
• Enhanced Parental Policies.
• Complimentary tea, coffee, soft drinks and fruit.
• Hybrid working arrangement where possible.

Equals strives to create a workplace where we can all be ourselves. We believe in inclusion, equality and the power of diversity, so you\'ll be encouraged to bring your unique perspectives and experiences, and help us understand what you need to do your best work.