Senior Engineers II - Ruby | UK & EU (remote)

Cleo; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Hybrid/Remote UK & EU

Private Medical Insurance

Pension

Sabbatical

Frequent performance reviews

Job summary

Cleo is seeking an SE3–SE4 backend engineer to join our Ruby on Rails monolith and React Native frontend. You will mentor teammates, contribute to product ideation and deliver impactful features in a fast-paced fintech environment.

Based in the UK or Europe, you’ll work in a hybrid or remote setup, with time-zone alignment to London where possible. The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and quality delivery.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of industry experience using Ruby on Rails
• Ability to mentor and grow engineers
• Experience delivering features in a cross-functional, agile environment

Responsibilities

• Join a cross-functional product squad to develop features that improve users' financial health.
• Lead delivery by aligning engineers, designers, analysts and other disciplines to ship work.
• Mentor colleagues and support their growth as engineers.

Skills

Mentoring

Leadership

Collaboration

Agile delivery

Data-driven decision making

Tools

Ruby on Rails

React Native

TypeScript

Python

PostgreSQL

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

About Cleo

About The Company

About Cleo

At Cleo, we're not just building another fintech app. We're embarking on a mission to fundamentally change humanity's relationship with money. Imagine a world where everyone, regardless of background or income, has access to a hyper-intelligent financial advisor in their pocket. That's the future we're creating.

Cleo is a rare success story: a profitable, fast-growing unicorn with over $380 million in ARR and growing over 2x year-over-year. This isn't just a job; it's a chance to join a team of brilliant, driven individuals who are passionate about making a real difference. We have an exceptionally high bar for talent, seeking individuals who are not only at the top of their field but also embody our culture of collaboration and positive impact.

If you’re driven by complex challenges that push your expertise, the chance to shape something truly transformative, and the potential to share in Cleo’s success as we scale, while growing alongside a company that’s scaling fast, this might be your perfect fit.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Joining a cross-functional product squad and collaborating with a mix of engineers, designers, analysts and other disciplines to develop features that enhance our users' financial health.
• Collaborating with other senior peers in your squad and pillar to provide technical insight into upcoming work, and leading the delivery by helping pull everyone together to get it shipped.
• Mentoring colleagues to help them grow as engineers and actively supporting their development.
• Working on our Ruby on Rails monolith, building data models, APIs, and business logic services.
• Delivering your work using agile methodologies and tools like tests, observability, AB-tests, and feature flags.
• Analyzing data to identify problems and generate new ideas, using various sources such as our database, application logs, and user research data.
• Supporting colleagues through in-hours support and optionally joining the compensated out-of-hours on-call rotation.
• Contributing to cross-cutting concerns that improve our engineering efforts.
• Taking part in shaping the work of your squad beyond technical aspects, participating in product ideation, user research, design reviews, retrospectives, and more.

Here Are Some Examples, Big And Small, Of The Kinds Of Product Feature Work Our Engineers Have Taken Part In Over The Last Year

• Building a secured credit card
• Launching new budget analysis features
• implementing pricing experiments for subscriptions

About You

You are passionate about making a positive difference in society by improving the financial health of our users. You align with our company values and engineering principles, which drive our ways of working and software delivery.

As this is a SE3-SE4 position we’re looking for someone who has at least 4 years industry experience of using Ruby on Rails. If it’s not quite that much, maybe you want to look at our standard Backend role.

You’re based in the UK or Europe; we hire hybrid & remote in the UK & fully remotely across the EU. We love distributed teams. For this role, we’re ideally looking for candidates based within one hour either side of London time, to keep collaboration smooth and calendars sane.

Our Tech Stack

Cleo is built as a Ruby on Rails monolith with a single React Native app frontend, utilising TypeScript. We also leverage Python for machine learning services and PostgreSQL for our database, all hosted on AWS. Our CI/CD pipeline is fully automated, with production deployments happening on every merge via Kubernetes. Our backend engineers deploy multiple times a week, and we release our frontend app to Google and Apple for review at least once a week.

While we take a pragmatic approach, we place a strong emphasis on quality. Our code is peer-reviewed, and we maintain automated testing using Minitest and CircleCI. We're also actively working towards a more modular architecture, focusing on separating concerns to achieve all the benefits of microservices within a monolith, while progressively refactoring our code as we build new features. Everyone in the engineering team contributes to driving our technical strategy, voices & ideas from all levels are valued: we are all owners at Cleo.

What do you get for all your hard work?

• A competitive compensation package (base + equity) with 3 annual reviews, aligned to our termly OKR planning cycles.
• Work at one of the fastest-growing tech startups, backed by top VC firms, Balderton & EQT Ventures
• A clear progression plan. We want you to keep growing. That means trying new things, leading others, challenging the status quo and owning your impact. Always with our complete support.
• Flexibility. We can’t fight for the world’s financial health if we’re not healthy ourselves. We work with everyone to make sure they have the balance they need to do their best work
• Work where you work best. We’re a globally distributed team. If you live in London we have a hybrid approach, we’d love you to spend one day a week or more in our beautiful office. If you’re outside of London, we’ll encourage you to spend a couple of days with us a few times per year. And we’ll cover your travel costs, naturally.
• Company-wide performance reviews every 4 months
• Generous pay increases for high-performing team members
• Equity top-ups awarded across all levels in performance reviews
• 25 days annual leave a year + public holidays (+ an additional day for every year you spend at Cleo, up to 30 days)
• 1 month paid sabbatical after 4 years at Cleo
• 6% employer-matched pension in the UK
• Private Medical Insurance via Vitality, dental cover, and life assurance
• Online mental health support via Spill
• Enhanced parental leave
• Workplace Nursery Scheme
• Paid for access to multiple AI platforms (ChatGPT, Codex, Claude)
• Access to the latest AI coding models
• Pick your kit - choose between a Windows or an Apple computer
• Regular socials and activities, online and in-person
• And many more.

We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.

App access:

The Cleo app is downloadable in the UK & USA. We're not currently in the EU. Why? 99% of our users are based in the US – where financial health is often overlooked. We’ve decided to shift our focus to where we can provide the most value and make the greatest impact for users who need it most. We can share a slide deck detailing the apps capabilities in more detail though, to help you through the interview process.