Senior Software Engineer

Capitalize; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Medical and dental insurance

401k plan access

Unlimited paid time off

12 weeks of fully-paid parental leave

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Capitalize is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help scale our retirement-savings platform. You will develop APIs, own backend features, and contribute to data-driven improvements in a fast-paced startup environment.

You will collaborate across a small team, take ownership of initiatives, and help drive product quality from concept through deployment and monitoring. Strong Java/TypeScript/Node expertise is essential for success.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in a software engineering role.
• Strong backend development with Java, TypeScript and Node.js.
• Experience building APIs and infrastructure for platforms.
• Familiarity with monitoring and troubleshooting in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop APIs and backend features powering our platform.
• Test new ideas and iterate on product initiatives.
• Collaborate in a small, fast-paced team with ownership.
• Touch data processes to improve operations and insights.
• Design and build APIs and infrastructure to scale the product.

Skills

Java

TypeScript

Node.js

JPA

CI/CD

Cloud/AWS

Databases (SQL/NoSQL)

DevOps

Monitoring (CloudWatch)

Tools

CloudWatch

CI/CD pipelines

PostgreSQL/MySQL

NoSQL databases

Job description

• As a Senior Software Engineer at Capitalize, your work will be instrumental in our efforts to help more people gain control of their retirement savings
• In your day-to-day, you will create meaningful product functionality, execute on testing new ideas, handle development on new product initiatives, design and build APIs, touch data processes, and enhance other internal functions that drive our business forward and enable us on our mission
• We are a small, fast-paced team, and collaborate frequently on what is created (from Figma to deployment), and ownership is a key driving factor for our engineers

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Medical and dental insurance, with 100% premium covered for staff and 50% for dependents
• 401k plan access
• Unlimited paid time off
• 12 weeks of fully-paid parental leave
• Commuter benefits

We’re looking for someone with strong back-end development experience to join us in building the APIs and infrastructure to power our platformIf you have experience in early-stage startups, thrive in cross-functional environments, and enjoy working on initiatives that people interact with daily, we’d love to hear from you!

• Desire to take on growth-oriented initiatives outside of core feature work
• Experience with monitoring solutions such as CloudWatch, and troubleshooting best practices
• Effective independent contribution, with a sense of ownership, and a proactive mindset
• Experience working on products with rapid feature development, including fast iterations and tight feedback loops during QA processes
• Expertise in backend technologies, specifically using modern Java and JPA6+ years of experience in a software engineering role
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
• Strong knowledge of relational databases and/or NoSQL databases
• Devops or cloud development
• Typescript, Node
• Efficiently scaling up systems and processes