Mid Level Backend Engineer (Node.js)

Emma - we are hiring!; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vitality Membership

Health care

Dental care

Pension Contribution

Holiday Allowance

Paid Sick Leave

MacBook

Job summary

Emma is building the UK’s first Finance App with a fast-paced, autonomous engineering culture. You will work closely with the CTO on backend infrastructure, data processing challenges and new integrations, shaping a high-impact roadmap.

You’ll own features, ship quickly, and uphold a high standard across the team. We value bold, determined and focused contributors who take initiative, learn new skills, and act like owners.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years professional software development experience.
• Experience with modern JS/TS stack and React Native is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with CTO on backend infrastructure scale and data processing.
• Contribute to features and integrations on a fast-moving roadmap.
• Own modules end-to-end with autonomy and high standards.

Skills

TypeScript

JavaScript

Problem solving

Tools

Redux

React Native

Next.js

gRPC

Job description

About The Company

Emma is the app to manage all things money.

Our mission is to empower millions of people to live a better and more fulfilling financial life.

Emma was founded by engineers, who are extremely focused on coding, product and data. These are the three pillars on which we want to build a strong tech culture and fix personal finance once for all.

We have raised more than $8m+ to date to build the one stop shop for all your financial life. Our investors include Connect Ventures (investor in Curve, TrueLayer and CityMapper), Kima Ventures, one of the first in Transferwise, and Aglaé Ventures, early stage fund of the Groupe Arnault, investor in Netflix and Airbnb.

Alongside them, several angel investors, who have built and sold industry leading companies have decided to take part into this journey.

At Emma, We Are

• Bold
• Determined
• Focused
• Autonomus

We are a high-performance team and we run the company like a professional sports team. We expect each and every team member to move fast, have ownership over their work and hold each other to a high standard.

If you're not driven to own your work, execute swiftly, and innovate constantly, this isn't the right place for you.

Responsibilities

About the role

You will work directly with the CTO and your focus will span different areas, with challenges related to our backend infrastructure, from scaling challenges to data processing ones. We have an intense roadmap ahead, which includes a plethora of new features and integrations, which you will be part of.

Our Tech Stack

• Languages: TypeScript, Javascript
• Libraries and frameworks: gRPC, Redux, React Native, Next.js
• Datastores: Vitess, MySQL, CockroachDB, BigQuery, Redis
• Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, PubSub, Terraform
• Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry, Metabase

Some Of Our Current Interests Lie In

Product

We are building the 1st Finance App in the UK, used by many people every day. We are shipping an average of a feature per week and tons of micro-improvements that compound in making our app valuable

Machine learning

we have an enormous amount of transaction data, which we are using to provide better insights to our users. Predicting when a user is going in overdraft, when a card payment is coming through or clustering a huge set of subscriptions are a few of the problems we are tackling

Scaling

our services are used by millions of people. We need to keep Emma up and running smoothly. This means an intense effort and quality in the work we do

Speed

In the hyper-competitive FinTech industry what really matters is speed. If we had to compare ourselves to someone, we like to think we would be Bolt.

About You

• You are a software developer with at least 2 years professional experience
• You are excited by what we're building at Emma
• You thrive in environments that afford you high levels of responsibility and autonomy
• You hold yourself and those you work with to high standards
• You are driven to fulfil your potential and grow as an engineer
• You take the initiative to learn new skills required to complete tasks
• You behave like an owner, taking total responsibility for your work and considering the bigger picture
• You are results-oriented and avoid unnecessary tasks
• You have strong opinions, weakly held, and the humility to change your mind when presented with new evidence

Our Process

• Take-home assessment
• Screening with internal recruiter
• Technical call with Senior member of the team
• Recruiter sync
• Onsite interview with CTO & CEO

Our Benefits

• Vitality Membership
• Health care
• Dental care
• Reduced gym memberships
• Cashback benefits & discounts
• Pension Contribution
• Holiday Allowance
• Paid Sick Leave
• Emma Ultimate Subscription
• MacBook
• Referral Scheme: talented individuals and earn £1000 when they join us.
• 1 month sabbatical every 5 years
• Annual Salary Review
• Regular socials and lunches

To facilitate communication, productivity and speed, we work from the office Monday to Friday. This is not a hybrid role. Please only apply if you can certainly meet this requirement.

Our office address is: 1st Floor, Verse Building, 18 Brunswick Place, London N1 6DZ.

May the gummy power be with you!

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