Financial Cloud Overview
Welcome to Financial Cloud - a Fintech start-up that’s helping drive innovation and change in the fast-growing financial services space with its range of SaaS products.
Financial Cloud is an innovative financial services company based in Glasgow with clients operating throughout the UK. As a company, we believe that the success of our business depends on the people involved in creating our products. Our engineers are at the forefront of helping our business process millions of pounds and deliver high-quality products to our client’s growing customer base of over 500,000.
Our technology operates on a Kubernetes based infrastructure running on the AWS and GCP platforms. We build using a standardised technology stack that primarily includes Node JS and MongoDB powering the backend microservices and component-based Angular solutions driving our micro frontends.
Our developers are split into small micro teams within the business, play a key role in the future of our products and lead the business from the technology side. During this period of growth, we are looking to add a new Team Lead Backend Developer to our team to help us with the next step in our vision for the product.
What you will do
- Take ownership of the architecture, delivery and development of backend projects.
- Manage and lead a team of backend engineers and provide mentorship.
- Scope, plan and delegate tasks amongst the team.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders.
- You will be hands-on with the planning, development and delivery of projects using industry best practices.
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
- Collaborate with engineers to solve problems and architect the future of our products.
- Work with frontend engineers to deliver backend API services to meet responsive design requirements.
- Identify and plan improvements to the existing codebase.
- Reviewing and providing feedback on pull requests.
- Implementation of security and data protection,
- Integration of data storage solutions.
- Help us improve. We’re always looking for ways to be better and want you to keep us moving forward.
What we are looking for
We are looking for someone that can take ownership of the backend development side of Financial Cloud. You will be responsible for ensuring that engineers deliver quality code to production and provide mentorship to less experienced members of the team. You will also be required to delegate tasks to the team and ensure delivery is on time for each of our releases.
Our Stack
Git, Github, Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Node Js, MongoDB, Express, Restful API’s, Typescript, Javascript, OOP.
Required
- A minimum of 4 years of commercial experience as a developer.
- Previous experience with managing teams and desire to do so.
- A minimum of 2 years experience in Node JS.
- Experienced in working with MongoDB and NoSQL databases.
- Experienced in building software for production. You will also be comfortable with everything that this involves.
- Proficient with Typescript.
- Be able to architect and deliver scalable applications with a thought for the future.
- Experience working with frontend developers to deliver API based solutions.
- Be able to write and perform unit tests using a testing framework (we use Jest).
- With an understanding of modern web development and best practices, You will be keen to voice your thoughts and help lead the direction of our software.
- The ability to work independently on projects and provide accurate estimates of when work will be delivered.
- An open attitude to collaboration with other members on the team and mentoring less experienced developers.
- Motivated to implement best practice approaches within development and exposure to current industry best practices for applications.
- Experience integrating multi data sources and databases into a single system.
- Strong communication skills both written and verbal.
- Candidates must have the right to work in the UK.
Exposure to the following would also be beneficial:
- Experience using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with relational databases.
- Experience mentoring developers.
- Experience within a startup culture.
- Experience in integrating automated testing.
- Experience working within an agile environment.
- Experience working with RabbitMQ
What we offer
We offer a culture that promotes growth and collaboration within its teams. We invest heavily within the technical side of our business and aim to make Financial Cloud a place that developers can excel in and continue to learn.
We also offer the following benefits as a business to employees:
- 28 days standard holiday inclusive of public holidays.
- An extra 2 days holiday for each year of service with no limit.
- Your choice of environment and a company laptop. Windows or Linux, it’s up to you!
- We think future financial health is important and offer a 3% contribution to your employee auto-enrolment pension scheme.
- Conference and Training budget.
- 1 to 1’s with a direct manager to focus on your personal and professional development goals.
- An opportunity to play a key role in the future of development at Financial Cloud and lead on new technology adoptions.