Remote Senior Software Engineer (UK)

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