Node.js Backend Engineer - FinTech, Scale & Autonomy

Emma - we are hiring!; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vitality Membership

Health care

Dental care

Reduced gym memberships

Pension Contribution

Holiday Allowance

Paid Sick Leave

Emma Ultimate Subscription

MacBook

Referral Scheme: Refer talented people

Job summary

Emma is building the UK’s first Finance App, shipping features weekly and continually improving through data-driven insights. You’ll work with the CTO on backend infrastructure, scaling challenges, and complex data processing to support millions of users.

You will own critical components, contribute to a fast-moving roadmap, and collaborate across product, data, and platform teams to deliver robust, scalable systems in a high-performance environment.

Qualifications

• You are a software developer with at least 5 years professional experience.
• You are excited by what we're building at Emma, and you thrive with high levels of responsibility and autonomy.
• You hold yourself and others to high standards and act like an owner over your work.
• You are driven to grow as an engineer and learn new skills.
• You take initiative to learn required tasks and think about the bigger picture.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the CTO on backend infrastructure and data processing challenges.
• Contribute to a roadmap with new features and integrations, delivering at pace.
• Collaborate across teams to scale services and keep Emma running smoothly.

Skills

TypeScript

JavaScript

Backend development

REST/gRPC

Tools

gRPC

Redux

React Native

Next.js

Vitess

MySQL

CockroachDB

BigQuery

Redis

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

PubSub

Terraform

Grafana

Prometheus

Sentry

Metabase

Job description

Emma is building the UK’s first Finance App, shipping features weekly and continually improving through data-driven insights. You’ll work with the CTO on backend infrastructure, scaling challenges, and complex data processing to support millions of users.

You will own critical components, contribute to a fast-moving roadmap, and collaborate across product, data, and platform teams to deliver robust, scalable systems in a high-performance environment.