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Senior Backend Product Engineer - Scala, Equity, London

Jack & Jill/External ATS

Greater London

On-site

GBP 91,000 - 102,000

Full time

Yesterday
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Job summary

A fintech company in London is seeking a Senior Product Engineer (Backend) to develop backend services and enhance the customer experience. The ideal candidate will have expert-level skills in Scala and experience with cloud environments like GCP. You will contribute to building microservices and ensuring seamless integration with external partners. This opportunity is part of a rapidly expanding mission following significant funding, emphasizing a high-ownership culture and impactful work.

Qualifications

  • Expert-level proficiency in Scala with a deep understanding of functional programming.
  • Experience building and operating distributed microservices in cloud environments.
  • A product-first mindset that prioritizes solving customer problems.

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale production-grade microservices using Scala and Kafka.
  • Design resilient, event-driven architectures and RESTful APIs.
  • Manage and optimize containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.

Skills

Proficiency in Scala
Understanding of functional programming patterns
Experience with Kafka
Knowledge of Docker
Experience with Kubernetes

Tools

GCP
Kafka
Docker
Kubernetes
Job description
A fintech company in London is seeking a Senior Product Engineer (Backend) to develop backend services and enhance the customer experience. The ideal candidate will have expert-level skills in Scala and experience with cloud environments like GCP. You will contribute to building microservices and ensuring seamless integration with external partners. This opportunity is part of a rapidly expanding mission following significant funding, emphasizing a high-ownership culture and impactful work.
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