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Software Engineer

Squirrel

London

Hybrid

GBP 65,000 - 95,000

Full time

17 days ago

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Job summary

Squirrel is looking for a passionate Software Engineer to build innovative financial platforms aimed at easing the burden of fertility treatments. This role emphasizes collaboration in cross-functional teams, engineering excellence, and a commitment to creating impactful digital experiences. Ideal candidates will have over 3 years in full-stack development and comfort in startup environments.

Benefits

Equity

Fertility Support

Pension - SMART

Professional Development budget - £1000 per year

Workplace Nursery Benefit

Qualifications

Experience as a full-stack engineer for over 3 years.
Strong technical background in coding and infrastructure.
Ability to work in ambiguity and prioritize effectively.

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable software for financial platforms.
Lead technical projects and collaborate across teams.
Ensure high-quality code and improve developer experience.

Skills

full-stack engineering

PostgreSQL

problem-solving

collaboration

holistic problem understanding

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About Our Client

Our client is the first value-based family building company, dedicated to giving people control over their fertility with clinically proven pathways to parenthood—whether they want a child now or later. They take on the financial risk so that if they don’t deliver successful outcomes, their customers don’t pay. The company was founded out of a personal journey through assisted fertility, with a mission to create a better experience for others facing similar challenges.

Their mission is to give anyone who wants a family their best chance at parenthood, offering access to a network of clinics selected for their results, affordable and flexible payment options, and wraparound care and support with a 90+ NPS. Their vision is to become the go-to brand for family building.

The Role

Our client is looking for a passionate engineer to build the financial platforms for their insurance and lending products. You will work on features and services that reduce the financial stress and burden of fertility treatments and increase operational efficiency.

As a Product Engineer, you will be responsible for shipping innovative features and solutions at breakneck speed. If you are someone who loves solving problems for customers, cares about software engineering as a craft, and finds thrill in building startups, our client wants to talk to you.

What You Will Own

Designing and building scalable software to deliver a world class digital experience to customers, integrating complex financial processes (like underwriting, insurance, risk scoring, loan servicing, payments)
Scoping and leading technical projects, laying the groundwork for products to iteratively evolve, scale and deliver outcomes
Making effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and technical feasibility
Collaborating closely with product, design, ops and data teams to prioritise and build solutions and deliver customer and business outcomes
Improving the developer experience and quality of systems by investing in tooling, infrastructure, code quality, automated testing and observability
Setting the engineering culture with the rest of the team by defining how to work as a team, set standards for quality, and improve the speed of engineering execution

You’ll Be Great for This Role If You

Have experienced life as a full-stack engineer (backend leaning is ideal!) in a startup for over 3 years
Are experienced in working with PostgreSQL
Are resilient working in ambiguity while seamlessly balancing tactical and strategic considerations
Are ready to hit the ground running with a strong technical background, including experience building high-quality code and infrastructure
Enjoy working as part of a small, cross-functional team in close partnership with other cross-functional teams
Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones
Like to take ownership of problems. The product spans across healthcare, insurance and finance. You will need to find creative solutions and get others on board with them
Approach understanding and solving problems holistically, not only from a tech point of view

Our client always prefers passion over skills. If you do not tick all of the above requirements but are excited about their mission and values, please get in touch!

How Our Client Builds

Works in small cross-functional teams collaborating closely across the entire business
Believes work should be shipped and improved in small iterations with the help of early feedback from Members and internal users
Is heavily biased towards keeping things simple, using existing open-source technologies and not reinventing the wheel if no value can be added
The tech stack is built of strongly typed TypeScript, Next.js + React.js, Nest.js, PostgreSQL and SQS
Production services run on AWS and Vercel. Infrastructure and configuration are automated using Pulumi and Github Actions
The observability stack is built up of Cloudwatch, Grafana and Sentry

Throughout the interview process, our client is looking for...

You can take on big, loosely defined projects, break them down, and deliver them in an intuitive and digestible way
You are comfortable working in a constantly-changing environment, regularly questioning and challenging the status quo
You are able to understand problems deeply and holistically
You can communicate complex topics clearly and concisely
You show the potential to mentor other engineers as the team builds

Salary + Benefits Offering

£65k - 95k (experience dependent between mid and senior levels)
Equity
Fertility Support
Pension - SMART
Professional Development budget - £1000 per year
Workplace Nursery Benefit
Hybrid working environment - 3 days in the office: Mondays, Wednesday and Thursdays at the office in central London (4 minutes from Oxford Circus)

Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Staffing and Recruiting

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