Compensation

£80K - 100K + Equity

Remote within

United Kingdom

Contract type

Full time

Sponsorship offered

Remote working

Technologies & frameworks

Ruby
AWS
Functional Programming
Cloud
Clojure
Multiprocessing (Linux/Unix)

Benefits & perks

Flexible working
Pension
Macbook air/pro
Lunch & learn
Agile
Maternity & paternity leave
Flexible parent working
Casual dress
Pension contributions
Cycle to work
Free coffee
Stock options
Learning budget
Happy hour events
Competitive salary
Paid sick days
Gym memberships
Paid leave
Annual learning budget
Free breakfast, fruit + a beer fridge
Bonus
Paid health insurance
Quiz nights
Fruit
Ping pong & snooker
Tech socials
Meet ups
Team lunches
Coffee
Dress down
Conference tickets
Season ticket loan
Committed to a diverse team
Bike friendly
Parental leave
Daily stand up
Vision insurance
Company outings
Dental insurance

Work with the largest online small business loans provider and lending platforms in the world -

Role overview

This role sits within the “Tech and Data” teams. The drivers behind our platform – brilliant people working together to create, code, and build the next game changers.

What will you be doing?

The driving force behind the world’s leading platform for small business lending is our engineering team. We are a diverse group from more than 25 different countries and cultures who bring together a wide range of backgrounds and experience (from music to aerospace engineering).

We are focused entirely on using technology to provide the best experience for our borrowers and investors. We are doing this by building elegant, sustainable, and scalable solutions that can be applied globally. We work in small agile teams practicing continuous integration, TDD and are no strangers to pairing as we believe that working together is smarter than sitting in silos.

Day to Day, this role will include:

Collaborating as part of an agile cross functional team, as well as technology chapters
Building great user experiences for customers
Delivering innovation through software to automate processes that enable Funding Circle to operate at scale
Using Clojure, Kafka, React and Ruby currently and built entirely on AWS
Supporting our production systems
Collaboration - Engagement with the team and other stakeholders, comfortable doing this remotely

Are you...

This role requires someone who has:

Strong experience in at least one major Functional Programming language (E.g. Python, Clojure, Ruby, Scala, Go, Elixir)
Strong fundamental programming skills (data structures, algorithms)
Familiarity developing on Unix/Linux
Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, BDD, TDD and CI/CD
An interest or experience in any of Functional Programming, Distributed Systems or Event-Driven Architectures
Ability to mentor and coach more junior engineers

Funding Circle

250+

We're building a better financial world. Over the past ten years, we have built a machine learning and technology platform that is revolutionising how small businesses access finance. Business owners can complete a loan application and receive a decision in a matter of minutes, enabling them to get funding quickly at an affordable rate. Today, as the leading global provider for small business loans we have helped more than 100,000 small businesses access more than £11.5 billion in finance. Funding Circle is the largest online small business loans provider and one of the best-capitalised lending platforms in the world. The business is listed on the London Stock Exchange (Ticker: FCH). Our backers collectively manage over $5 trillion and are the leading firms behind Facebook, Twitter, Skype and Betfair. Build the incredible, with us!!