Software Engineer

Habito; United States; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Flexible holiday

Enhanced maternity & paternity leave

Life assurance

Contributory pension scheme

International remote working

Volunteering days

Sick pay

GAYE

Job summary

A financial technology company in the UK is looking for a passionate Software Engineer to join their full stack team. The successful candidate will work on building and maintaining crucial systems that improve the UK mortgage brokering market. Strong experience with Haskell and a collaborative approach are essential, along with skills in SQL and React/Typescript. The role is remote-first and offers a range of benefits including flexible holiday and enhanced family leave.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining the website and internal systems.
• Integrating lenders, insurers, and conveyancers.
• Working on business critical projects.

Skills

Commercial experience in Haskell

Working with relational databases using SQL

Experience with React/Typescript front end

Experience with AWS

Understanding of distributed systems

Initiative to turn business requirements into software

Pragmatic mindset

Good communication skills

Ability to work in a remote-first role

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Postgres

Job description

We’re looking for an enthusiastic full time Software Engineer to join our full stack team at

Habito. We champion principled pragmatism, marrying practical solutions with high

standards. We believe in the power of collaborative learning and iterative delivery, ensuring

that every team member grows and every project shines. Here, you’ll wear many hats-

from dev, to security, to design-giving you a holistic view of our tech landscape. We

equally value the integrity of data and the elegance of code, empowering our solutions to

be as robust as they are innovative. Join us to shape technology with creativity and

About the team

The team you’d be joining is made up of 4 highly skilled, enthusiastic, full stack developers

with a wealth of experience. You’ll be working with and learning from them closely every

day! We strive to continually improve our approaches and processes, and you’ll be

encouraged to identify areas that slow us down and proactively solve them. We believe in

inclusivity, with all members of the team, no matter the level or experience, contributing

ideas and knowledge.

The Tech

• Haskell for our backend.
• Docker and Kubernetes hosted in AWS for our infrastructure.
• React and TypeScript for our front end.
• Bazel & BuildKite for our builds and automated deployments.
• Nix for provisioning tooling and Terraform for managing our infrastructure.
• GitHub for our code repository.

More about what you’ll do:

You’ll be contributing to making the UK mortgage brokering market a better place! This

means building and maintaining our website and internal facing systems. It also involves a

lot of critical work integrating lenders, insurers, conveyancers, and other players in the

space as we seek to introduce robust automation and streamline the whole process. You’ll

work in a multi-functional team, taking on business critical projects as well as the day-to-

day work keeping the lights on.

You’ll need:

• Multiple years of commercial experience writing and deploying Haskell in a production backend.
• Multiple years working with relational databases using SQL, ideally Postgres.
• Experience working on a React/Typescript frontend.
• Experience with at least one cloud infrastructure provider, ideally AWS.
• To have worked on or want to learn to work on distributed systems.
• To take the initiative to turn business requirements into working software.
• To have a pragmatic mindset – perfect is the enemy of good!
• To not be afraid to ask questions or jump on a call to unblock yourself.
• To be happy working in a remote first role.

The benefits:

• Discretionary bonus (company performance dependent)
• Flexible holiday - 25 days holiday and more if you need it! (this is team dependent)
• Enhanced maternity & paternity leave - for when you plan to start a family
• Life assurance - 4 x your annual salary
• Contributory pension scheme - We have an ethical pension fund, but you can decide
• where you put your money
• International remote working for up to 20 days a year
• Volunteering - 2 days paid volunteering each year for charity of your choice
• Sick pay - up to 5 days sick covered each year
• GAYE - Give As You Earn - donate to a charity of your choice via payroll.

More about Habito

Obtaining a mortgage shouldn’t be stressful. That’s why we built Habito.

We use breakthrough technology and top tier experts to deliver the most personalised, fast

and convenient way to get a mortgage today. All for free.

We don’t stop at mortgages, either. Together we’re building whole new ways of buying and

owning your home. At Habito, you’ll be a vital part of that future.

We want to hear from everyone

The creative brilliance and ingenuity at Habito wouldn’t be possible without a diverse team

bringing different perspectives, experience and skills together.

If you feel you can do the job, we’d like to hear from you, no matter what your background