Senior Full Stack Engineer

BCB Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company based in London is seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join their rapidly growing team. The role involves developing, testing, and maintaining complex financial platforms, primarily using Node.js and SQL. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience, proficiency in TypeScript, and strong knowledge of microservices architecture. The company offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities for personal and professional growth, along with a strong benefits package including private healthcare, parental leave, and wellness days.

Benefits

30 days annual leave

Private healthcare

Pension scheme

Wellbeing days

Enhanced parental leave

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience working with microservices and distributed systems architecture.
• High-level expertise in SQL development and database programming: MySQL/PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, release, support, and maintain complex financial platforms.
• Work closely with product managers to focus on new feature design.
• Mentor junior engineers and champion best practices.

Skills

Software engineering

Microservices

TypeScript

Event-driven architecture

Node.js

SQL development

Angular

Google Cloud

Automated testing

CI/CD

Job description

• Join a rapidly growing team to help BCB build and scale our products and deliver them to clients.
• Use your software engineering skills to develop, test, release, support and maintain complex financial platforms. Our backend is written in Node driven by SQL databases and our front-end uses the Angular framework. All our services run in google cloud in Kubernetes.
• Work closely with product managers to focus on new feature design, build and ship scalable products.

So, what are we looking for?

• 5+ Years Experience in software engineering.
• Experience working with microservices and distributed systems architecture.
• Proficiency in TypeScript.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and message queuing systems, ideally Google Pub/Sub, Kafka.
• Experience with Node.JS and server frameworks, ideally NestJS.
• High level expertise in SQL development and database programming: MySQL/PostgreSQL.
• Good working knowledge of front-end frameworks, ideally Angular.
• Knowledge of Cloud Platforms, ideally Google Cloud.
• Expertise in automated testing at unit, integration and system level.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms, ideally gitlab.
• Experience in Fintech/Banking is highly desirable.
• Take ownership of key architectural decisions and contribute to the technical roadmap.
• Mentor junior engineers and champion best practices within the team.

What’s in it for you?

Our people are constantly striving to be the best through operational excellence. The professional development and learning opportunities create an agile, hardworking, conscientious, and knowledgeable team.

The opportunities for personal growth are exponential. You grow as the business grows. The roles and responsibilities are broad and ever-changing, and the dynamism of BCB keeps you engaged and highly motivated.

At BCB, you don’t just work for your manager; they work for you too. We believe in empowering individuals to create a culture of personal growth, together. We focus on driving empowerment from the bottom up, up-skilling every individual at every level. This means our team has a sense of commonality and belonging, driven by a shared belief in our mission. We’re passionate about our business, our people, and providing 360-degree support for success.

• The chance to operate at the forefront of our industry
• You can talk to anyone in the business as there are no barriers and everyone is accessible
• You will be collaborating with teams on a hybrid working arrangement
• We value team success where every individual can grow and prosper
• 30 days annual leave each year, excluding bank holidays
• 4 wellbeing days per year to prioritise your mental health
• 1 company volunteering day per year
• Strong benefits package including Private Healthcare, Pension, Income Protection (long-term absence), Life Insurance, Menopause Policy, and an enhanced Parental Leave policy

About BCB Group

BCB Group is a leading provider of regulated payment and trading services in crypto and fiat for the digital asset economy. We provide accounts, cryptocurrency and foreign exchange market liquidity for some of the world’s largest, crypto-engaged businesses, including crypto exchanges, liquidity providers, market makers, investment firms, custodians, payment processors and wallet providers.

Our end-to-end suite of products are accessible through our Client Console UI and API. We offer more than 40 fiat and cryptocurrencies, deep trading liquidity, 24/7 instant payments through our instant settlements network, BLINC, and secure crypto services. Our strong focus on compliance matches our technical and business expertise, and we are regulated by some of the world’s most respected regulators. Authorised in the UK, France and Switzerland, we place the utmost importance on our regulatory-first institutional principles.

Our leadership team boasts years of relevant, high-level experience at globally-renowned institutions. They combine finance, law, regulatory and technology skills in traditional and crypto financial services with a deep understanding of the new digital asset economy.

Our mission is to create the trusted platform to pay, store, trade and earn fiat and digital assets, globally 24/7