Backend Software Engineer

Curve • Full-time • London, UK, US • 9m ago

Curve was founded with a rebellious spirit, and a lofty vision; to truly simplify your finances, so you can focus on what matters most in life.

That’s why Curve puts your finances simply at your fingertips, so you can make smart choices on how to spend, send, see and save your money. We help you control your financial life, so you can go out and live the life you want to live.

With Curve you can spend from all your accounts, track spend behaviour and provide insights, and security to protect you from fraud. For the first time giving you bright insights and control of all your money in one beautiful place.

We’re developing a ground-breaking product with our customers at the core. Our user base is growing rapidly and we have exceptional metrics. We have funding from the leading names in tech investment, and a visionary leadership team who wants everyone who joins this remarkable adventure, to have the autonomy to masterfully develop their expertise.

Welcome to Curve. On a mission to help you live inspired.

Role Purpose:

Projects/initiatives that we want you to contribute to or lead the charge on:

Payment engine: we are enhancing our payment processing architecture to further leverage cloud capabilities, microservices, events etc
API as a product: we are creating a new set of APIs to allow internal (and later, external) teams to access the powerful features of the platform
Alternative payment methods: we are extending our capabilities into non-card payments such as Open Banking
Payouts and remittances: we want to leverage the ever-increasing coverage of real time push payments for P2P and B2C payments
Request to Pay: as an alternative to card payments and direct debits, we see great potential for RtP
Smart Rules: using the rich data set that we collect to make better decisions about preferred payment methods

Our current tech stack includes:

Languages: PHP, GO
Messaging: RabbitMQ (and maybe Kafka in the future)
Data: Snowplow, Python for the ETL
Our development practises include: TDD, BDD, Scrum
Database: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redshift
Mobile: IOS/Android; Objective-C/Swift/Java/Kotlin
Our devops culture includes: CI, CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio & Envoy, AWS

What your day will involve:

Delivering clean, architecturally sound and maintainable server-side code; bonus points for full-stack development experience
Collaborating with stakeholders in the company to rapidly build-measure-learn a world-class product
Working with our scrum masters to constantly iterate on the company’s development processes
Motivating the team past roadblocks to make sure we are shipping features as effectively as possible
Guiding design discussions; being the voice of experience with helping the team balance flexibility, expediency and scalability & performance
Contributing to the current move away from monolithic architecture to microservices
Championing new technologies and enforcing the best development patterns
Keeping a keen eye on the future, whilst making sure we’re proactively but pragmatically tackling technical debt

2+ years of software development experience
In-depth knowledge of more than one software language among Golang, Java, C++, with Go experience preferable but not essential
Experience of building microservices; ideally deployed in Docker containers on Kubernetes
Experience of agile development practices
Experience with RDBMS & NoSQL datastores
Bonus points for previous payments experience, especially with card processing and/or real-time payment systems
Ability to diagnose problems at any level (Client, HTTP/Network, Server, Database, OS)
Demonstrable experience of building large concurrent applications
Experience of developing and running large scale production environments in or closely with DevOps / SRE
A genuine interest in working in a fast paced startup and ideally Fintech
Voracious appetite for learning

Curve Life: