Backend Software Engineer

Description

At Funding Circle there’s a mission that drives everything we do. Around the world, we want to help small businesses get the finance they need to thrive, creating thousands of jobs as they drive the economy forward.

We have teams in London, Denver, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Berlin, we’re fusing finance and tech to build new opportunities for those who want to achieve more.

Are you made to do more? Join us!

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.

• Become part of the up-and-coming FinTech sector by working for one of the most promising technology-intensive companies in the industry.
• Write applications that are the backbone of Funding Circle business: from leading the loan lifecycle, to handling payments to reconciling Funding Circle books.
• Be part of a team that works together to design, code, and test solutions. Your voice will be heard at all stages of software development.
• Deliver innovation through software to automate processes that enable Funding Circle to operate at scale.
• Work with cool technologies like distributed systems, Kafka, functional programming languages, AWS systems and infrastructure and more.
• Collaborate with the brightest people in the industry in the US, UK, Germany, and other countries.
• Become part of a dynamic, employee-oriented, fast growing company that is fun to work for.
• See your work in production delivering benefits to our customers around the world and to Funding Circle.

• 2+ years of experience working as part of a software development team
• Previous experience supporting software running in production
• Familiarity with Agile development
• Knowledge of or willingness to learn Kafka, Clojure, SQL, Ruby, and more.

At Funding Circle, we celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. We truly believe that diversity makes us better.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.