Moneyfarm

You are primarily a software engineer that happens to have specialised on the backend. You don't consider any part of your software's life to be someone else's problem.
You find Scala to be a great tool and you can talk about some of its drawbacks. You know how to take advantage of its multi-paradigm nature.
While you welcome the technical freedom of greenfield developments you also enjoy the intricacies inherent in evolving existing software.
You're capable of appreciating the subtle impacts of different tech choices but ultimately you're a pragmatic. You favour readability of code, instinctively rejecting excessive conciseness or artistry.
You naturally stay within the scope of a story. You are biased to action: you prefer to deliver the good instead of arguing what perfection is.
You think critically and are happy to be proven wrong. You are methodical in your troubleshooting and debugging. When you find yourself stuck you take a step-back an re-analyse. You're able to fend off pressure and get the necessary space to think.
You see in a mistake a learning opportunity. You teach without patronising or overpowering.
You are able to communicate the technical vision in an clear way, and correctly translate tech choices and their consequences into business terms.
You will make mistakes. We'll pick you up. You will learn from them. You'll laugh a lot.
Responsibilities

Have a broad understanding of the whole architecture and its different services and develop in alignment with it.

Gain deeper knowledge of the most important services. Contribute to plans for improvement. Detect scalability, integrity or maintainability issues and propose corrective action.

Produce code of great quality with the right degree of coverage. Review code constructively, favouring the development of skills where possible. Frequently share your programming expertise and disseminate important knowledge within the practice. Champion code parsimony, quality and effectiveness.

Understand the delivery pipeline and keep it in good health. Work in an ops-minded way.

Mentor more junior colleagues and participate in recruitment activities. Contribute to a rational, informed and civil discussion when technical disputes arise. Contribute to the Tech Radar.

Keep abreast of technological developments in the industry and their relevance to the company. Openly and continuously share your knowledge.

Requirements

You have at least 6 years of experience in software engineering and a BSc in Engineering or Computer Science or higher degree.

You're proficient with Scala in its different styles and paradigms. Experience with Akka is a plus. You're familiar with other languages such as Python, ES6/7 and variants, shell scripting. DDD and TDD are defaults for you.

You understand the main programming paradigms and can argue about their applicability to any given problem.

Have an understanding of different data stores and their suitability. Fully proficient with relational databases and SQL. Understand how the JVM works and working knowledge of some of its tools.

You fully understand microservices architectures and you're familiar with event-sourced ones. You have good working knowledge about REST APIs and associated tooling. You know of other API styles.

You have an understanding of data warehousing, data intensive applications and architectures (Spark, Hadoop distributions), data analytics and machine learning.

Have a good understanding of agile methodologies and their principles.

You have some experience building modern web applications and value a great user experience. You've welcomed the evolution in the languages, build tools and frameworks that have made frontend development more disciplined and productive. Webpack, React are pluses.

You have a generic understanding of AWS's offering. You have experience working with containerised environments. You understand the importance of, and have experience with Continuous Delivery, preferably with Concourse.

You are primarily a software engineer that happens to have specialised on the backend. You don't consider any part of your software's life to be someone else's problem.
You find Scala to be a great tool and you can talk about some of its drawbacks. You know how to take advantage of its multi-paradigm nature.
While you welcome the technical freedom of greenfield developments you also enjoy the intricacies inherent in evolving existing software.
You're capable of appreciating the subtle impacts of different tech choices but ultimately you're a pragmatic. You favour readability of code, instinctively rejecting excessive conciseness or artistry.
You naturally stay within the scope of a story. You are biased to action: you prefer to deliver the good instead of arguing what perfection is.
You think critically and are happy to be proven wrong. You are methodical in your troubleshooting and debugging. When you find yourself stuck you take a step-back an re-analyse. You're able to fend off pressure and get the necessary space to think.
You see in a mistake a learning opportunity. You teach without patronising or overpowering.
You are able to communicate the technical vision in an clear way, and correctly translate tech choices and their consequences into business terms.
You will make mistakes. We'll pick you up. You will learn from them. You'll laugh a lot.
Responsibilities

Have an understanding of the whole architecture and its different services and develop in alignment with it.

Gain deeper knowledge of the most important services. Contribute to plans for improvement.

Produce code of great quality with the right degree of coverage. Review code constructively, favouring the development of skills where possible. Frequently share your programming expertise and disseminate important knowledge within the practice.

Understand the delivery pipeline and keep it in good health. Work in an ops-minded way.

Contribute to a rational, informed and civil discussion when technical disputes arise. Contribute to the Tech Radar.

Keep abreast of technological developments in the industry and their relevance to the company. Openly and continuously share your knowledge.

Requirements

You have at least 4 years of experience in software engineering and a BSc in Engineering or Computer Science or higher degree.

You're familiar with Scala in at least one of its different styles and paradigms. Experience with Akka is a plus. You're familiar with other languages such as Python, ES6/7 and variants, shell scripting, DDD and TDD.

You understand the main programming paradigms.

Have an understanding of different data stores and their suitability. Fully proficient with relational databases and SQL. Understand how the JVM works.

You understand microservices architectures and you're familiar with event-sourced ones. You have good working knowledge about REST APIs and associated tooling. You know of other API styles.

Have a good understanding of agile methodologies and their principles.

You have some experience building modern web applications and value a great user experience. You've welcomed the evolution in the languages, build tools and frameworks that have made frontend development more disciplined and productive. Webpack, React are pluses.

You have a generic understanding of AWS's offering. You have experience working with containerised environments. You understand the importance of Continuous Delivery.

You are primarily a software engineer that happens to have specialised on the frontend. You take pride in the fact that you own the entire software lifecycle.
You’ve studied some software engineering and are orientated towards doing things with a structured engineering approach.
While you welcome the technical freedom of greenfield developments you also enjoy the intricacies inherent in evolving existing software.
You're capable of appreciating the subtle impacts of different tech choices but ultimately you're a pragmatic. You favour readability of code, instinctively rejecting excessive conciseness or artistry.
You naturally stay within the scope of a story. You are biased to action: you prefer to deliver the good instead of arguing what perfection is.
You think critically and are happy to be proven wrong. You're methodical in your hypothesis generation and testing loop. You don’t chase unicorns, have step-back reflexes. You're able to fend off pressure and give yourself and others the necessary space to think.
You are able to communicate the technical vision in an clear way, and correctly translate tech choices and their consequences into business terms.
You will make mistakes. We'll pick you up. You will learn from them. You'll laugh a lot.
Responsibities

Understand deeply one or more areas of the frontend and work with product owners to help drive our exceptional customer experience.

Produce code of great quality with the right degree of test coverage. Review code constructively, favouring the development of skills where possible. Share your programming expertise and disseminate important knowledge within the practice. Champion code cleanliness, quality and effectiveness.

Understand and help maintain the delivery pipeline for the services you work on.

Contribute to a rational, informed and civil discussion when technical disputes arise. Contribute to the Tech Radar.

Keep abreast of technological developments in the industry and their relevance to the company.

Essential Requirements

At least 4 years of experience in software engineering and a BSc in Software Engineering or Computer Science or higher degree.

Understand the principles of software engineering: modularity, encapsulation, immutability, composition, OOP and FP.

Knowledge of ES6, React, Node, Redux, Jest, Mocha, responsive design, REST verbs, API design and the JS memory model.

Know vanilla CSS and have a clear opinion about its flavours, e.g. SASS, CSSinJS and Styled Components.

Experience using tools like Webpack and/or Parcel as well as older tools like Gulp or Grunt.

Have a good understanding of agile methodologies, their principles and their ceremonies.

Have an understanding of the principles of design, UI and user experience.

Desirable Requirements

You have worked with different frameworks in the past, e.g. AngularJS, Backbone, jQuery, Ember.

Have worked with and debugged HTTP requests using Nginx, reverse proxies, HTTP authentication & headers.

Understanding of another language like Scala or Java.

Know the concepts behind microservices and Docker.

Experience working on large scale systems in a multi-team environment.

Moneyfarm is a digital wealth manager that helps people protect and increase their wealth through time. Moneyfarm gives people access to investment advice and high-quality products at a family-friendly cost. Six years on, Moneyfarm operates in both Italy and the UK, offering simplified advice and discretionary investments to thousands of customers. We’ve won awards for our products and are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. We constantly innovate to ensure we offer our customers the best products possible, so they can lead a wealthier life. As a fast-growing company, we are eager to meet talented professionals who can add something unique to our teams. Help us reinventing the way wealth is managed!

THE ROLE

At Moneyfarm we make investing and saving accessible to everyone in a simple and transparent way. For our clients to have a smooth and excellent experience we ensure all banking operations are fast, reliable and with the user in mind. There are a number of activities and tasks which facilitate the smooth running of the activities which allow Moneyfarm to be a leader in the sector. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, proactive and robust Legal Counsel who is interested in a broad, challenging and rewarding role and who will contribute by providing legal advice to the business globally. The role requires the ability to work independently from day one and to manage a diverse and complex workload meeting tight deadlines.

Reporting Relationship: Reports to MFM Chairman

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Manage and maintain legal entities and required legal documents/ requirements/records

• Advising on the current regulatory regime in Italy/UK and other jurisdictions, both in the EU and elsewhere, as well as the analysis and implementation of new regulations.

• Provide guidance and support to various departments within the firm on legal compliance matters.

• Help structure, draft and negotiate deals/transactions documents and participate in global cross-functional teams to execute transactions.

• Liaising with outside counsels on a broad range of domestic and cross border jurisdictional issues

• Adapt and adjust job responsibilities to accommodate changing priorities while managing multiple requirements and timelines; and

• Monitor for new regulatory requirements that may impact the business and funds.

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

• Minimum of 3 years of finance/banking experience with a law firm or in-house legal department.

• Working knowledge of diverse legal areas including, corporate, commercial, and banking (wealth management) law.

• Understanding of banking/financial services operations and issues.

• Proven exposure to deal with UK contracts and common law

EDUCATION AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

• Law school degree

• Excellent written and oral communication skills both in Italian and English language

• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills

• A high degree of professionalism

• Desire to learn a variety of aspects of the wealth management business, including operations, administration, distribution and compliance

• Must be able to apply legal knowledge to the business

• Self-starter with strong work ethic; ability to work at a high level in a fast-paced, demanding environment.

As a Digital Marketing Executive, you will work on all Digital Paid channels, including search campaigns on Google and Bing, as well as Paid Social, Display marketing engines and Email Marketing across both UK and Italy.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for all things marketing and technology. You will be well-versed in the concepts surrounding digital marketing and how the Internet can become a strong asset to securing growing revenue. You will be tech-savvy, analytical and highly motivated to take on responsibility and make an impact and last but not least, you like having fun!

Your main responsibilities will include:

Helping to create and optimise targeted digital marketing campaigns to drive new customer acquisition and existing customer retention.

Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of online marketing activity.

Executing tests, collecting and analysing data, identifying trends and insights in order to achieve maximum ROI in digital campaigns.

Compiling information for inclusion in monitoring and research reports as requested.

Keeping up-to-date with current technologies and initiatives pertinent to online marketing.

Day to day tasks:

Monitoring campaign expenses, staying on budget, and reconciling discrepancies.

Executing plan for paid search and social, driving both reach and engagement.

Optimising keywords, copy and landing pages for paid search engine marketing campaigns.

Helping define a framework of when and how we analyse the performance of our programmatic campaigns. You must be able to demonstrate close loop analysis of recommendations and the value of any changes.

Assisting in the management and optimisation of our programmatic media buying by pulling regular reports out of our DSPs, analysing performance drivers and translating insights into actionable hypotheses and tweaks.

Tracking, reporting and analysing website analytics and campaigns.

Creating and sending email campaigns to the agreed targeted audience.

Improving the performance of marketing emails by running A/B tests and results analysis.

Must have:

At least 1 year experience and tangible success in managing digital campaigns in at least one of the following channels: across Display, PPC and Paid Social.

Experience with website analytics tools (e.g. Google Analytics).

Strong analytical skills and experience generating reports.

Good to have:

Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS.

Knowledge of Display Programmatic environment is a plus.

Well-versed in performance marketing, conversion, and online customer acquisition.

Familiarity with A/B and multivariate experiments.

You’ll work across multiple markets so a second language (eg. Italian, German, Spanish) is advantageous, but not essential.

Industry knowledge from either a corporate or agency setting would be an advantage but not essential.

You are proactive and eager to learn.

At Moneyfarm we use technology to make saving and investing accessible to everyone in a simple and transparent way. We build software that augments and optimises our in-house financial advisory expertise to offer our customers the best use of their money. We nurture a software development practice where every engineer is trusted with autonomy in their role to responsibly and continuously deliver quality software supported by a friendly and creative environment free from ownership handovers, gatekeepers or bureaucracy, that pushes you towards mastery in your craft.
Role
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”  –  Sherlock Holmes“Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves” – Tim Berners-Lee
You are primarily a software engineer that happens to have specialised in data engineering.You have a passion for data and it’s supporting technologies. You enjoy finding accurate answers to difficult questions. You can translate business requirements into technical solutions and you are able to communicate your findings to a non-technical audience.You are an influential team player with good interpersonal skills, capable of building and maintaining close relationships with your peers. You are reliable and you rely on others. You naturally stay within the scope of a story. You are biased to action: you prefer to deliver the good instead of arguing what perfection is.You are very attentive to detail. You can spot easily the missing pieces, even trivial ones. You always strive for quality in everything you do and you see a mistake as a learning opportunity. You have the passion and enthusiasm to learn new technologies and techniques. You have a pragmatic approach to challenges, favouring the best solution for the given context over the ideal one.You will make mistakes. We'll pick you up. You will learn from them. You'll laugh a lot.
Responsibilities

Design, implement, optimise, deploy and support new and existing data models and ETL pipelines in production.

Conduct data modelling and data flow designs and produce constructive code reviews.

Troubleshoot and fix data quality issues by analysing the root cause and follow up the resolution.

Build reports and visualisations to investigate key business questions.

Explore available technologies and conduct experiments to improve our data quality, workflow and job manageability and scalability.

Research on cutting-edge tools and technologies to continuously improve our data infrastructure and analytics capability.

Requirements

You have at least 2-3 years of experience in data engineering and a BSc in Engineering or Computer Science or higher degree essential.

You fully understand data modelling techniques, purposes and applicability for dimensional and relational is a must.

You have hands-on experience in the data warehouse space and ETL design, implementation and maintenance.

You have a strong proficiency in SQL and development experience in at least one scripting language (Python preferred).

You have a good understanding of row and columnar databases and BI/Visualization tools (Tableau preferred).

You have experience with AWS services: Redshift, RDS, EC2, DMS, Cloudwatch is a plus.

You are familiar with distributed processing platforms (eg. Spark), machine learning and continuous delivery is a plus.

Have a good understanding of agile methodologies and their principles.

At Moneyfarm we use technology to make saving and investing for the future accessible to everyone in a simple and transparent way. We build software that augments and optimises our in-house financial advisory expertise to offer our customers the best use of their money.
We nurture a software development practice where every engineer is trusted with autonomy in their role to responsibly and continuously deliver quality software supported by a friendly and creative environment free from ownership handovers, gatekeepers or bureaucracy, that pushes you towards mastery in your craft.
Role Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. Martin Fowler (1999)
You build it, you run it. Werner Vogels (2006)

You are primarily a software engineer that happens to have specialised on the frontend. You take pride in the fact that you own the entire software lifecycle.
You've welcomed the evolution in language, build tools and frameworks that have made frontend development more disciplined and productive. You have used your extensive experience with these technologies to build elegant, user focused, maintainable web applications.
While you welcome the technical freedom of greenfield developments you also enjoy the intricacies inherent in evolving existing software.
You're capable of appreciating the subtle impacts of different tech choices but ultimately you're a pragmatist. You favour readability of code, instinctively rejecting excessive conciseness or artistry.
You naturally stay within the scope of a story. You are biased to action: you prefer to deliver the good instead of arguing what perfection is.
You think critically and are happy to be proven wrong. You're methodical in your hypothesis generation and testing loop. You don’t chase unicorns and have step-back reflexes. You're able to fend off pressure and give yourself and others the necessary space to think.
You're able to turn zealotry into productive enthusiasm. You see in someone else's mistake a mentoring opportunity. You teach without patronising or overpowering. Pragmatism over idealism.
You always take the high road and can take criticism as easily as you suggest improvements to a design.
You are able to help guide conversation between product and technology and suggest improvements to a technical implementation while still remaining focused on business deliverables and the customer's best interests.
You will make mistakes. We'll pick you up. You will learn from them. You'll laugh a lot.
Responsibilities

Take ownership of the frontend codebase and guide its evolution and architecture.

Perform code reviews, openly share your knowledge and present learning opportunities for other members of the practice and team.

Ensure the architecture is documented and provide onboarding guidance for new developers.

Resolve any technical disputes and arguments in a rational, convincing and definitive way.

Make the strategic decisions required to build a cutting-edge and ridiculously maintainable platform.

Understand the delivery pipeline and keep it in good health. Work in an ops-minded way.

Maintain and evolve the current Design System based on React & Styled Components

Qualifications

At least 10 years of experience in software engineering and a BSc in Software Engineering or Computer Science or higher.

Fully understand the principles of software engineering: modularity, encapsulation, immutability, composition, OOP and FP.

Deep working knowledge of ES6, React, Node, Redux, responsive design and the JS memory model.

Know vanilla CSS and you have a clear opinion about its flavours, e.g. SASS, CSSinJS.

Experience using tools like Webpack and/or Parcel as well as tools like Gulp or Grunt.

Have worked with and debugged HTTP requests using Nginx, reverse proxies, HTTP authentication & headers.

Know how to design a clean REST API with the right HTTP verbs

Have a solid understanding of agile methodologies, their principles and their ceremonies.

Have an understanding of the principles of design, UI and user experience.

Preferred

Experience with Jest, Styled Components, AngularJS.

Comfortable with reading, writing and debugging other languages such as Scala, Java, Python and bash.

Understand microservices, GraphQL, integration patterns, Docker and S3.

Experience working on large scale customer facing systems, taking a senior role and overseeing the work of more than two developers.

As Client Assets and Operations Manager you will action CASS related regulatory reporting, driving forward process improvements with required controls, acting as the Client Money Assets subject matter expert for MFM, and ensuring that MFM continues to meet all ongoing FCA CASS requirements. This is a key control and function in the heavily regulated CASS environment helping to ensure we deliver on one of the FCA’s key principles - arranging adequate protection for clients’ assets.
Main Responsibilities:

Undertake the roles and responsibilities of the FCA Controlled Functions CF10a (CASS operational oversight function).Take the lead in the relation to CASS aspects of any mergers, acquisitions or new business propositions.Work with the Compliance function to identify all operational risk considerations through in-house and outsourced activities.Work with the Operations function to ensure MFM operational procedures continue to be fit for purpose.On-going CPD (Continuous Professional Development) to ensure that adequate knowledge of the UK CASS regulatory environment is maintained.
In regards to CASS operational oversight (CF10a) you will be responsible for:

Providing clear, pragmatic guidance and support to the business on regulatory issues in relation to CASS, and regarding regulatory requirements ensuring processes, procedures and controls as required in relation to Client Money and Assets continue to be fit for purpose.Preparing and submitting timely and accurate internal and external reports of the firm’s CASS returns (in particular the firm’s monthly CMAR returns to the FCA in line with regulatory requirements).Ensuring the timely and accurate execution of the daily CASS reconciliation, ensuring all issues and breaches are notified to Senior Management as they occur.Responding to regulatory changes by devising and ensuring the implementation of all internal changes within MFM to ensure MFM continues to be compliant with regulatory standards.Ensuring the CASS Resolution (CASS RP) is complete and up-to-date, to include the effectiveness of the tool under insolvency scenarios.Managing the annual CASS audit process by working with external auditors in order for them to issue an Audit Opinion on the firm to the FCA.Tracking, updating and resolving CASS related audit points.Undertaking root cause analysis associated with potential and actual errors and incidents and leverage lessons learnt to drive change.Managing MFM’s CASS Financial Institution relationships.Ensuring MFM CASS policies and procedures to reflect best practice in line with regulatory requirements.Ensuring (alongside the Head of Compliance) that all MFM staff involved the CASS process receive annual CASS training.Attending and preparing monthly and quarterly reports as required for the MFM Risk Committee and MFM Investment Limited Board meetings.Overseeing the operational effectiveness of the firm’s systems and controls that are designed to achieve compliance with CASS reporting to the firms governing body in respect of that oversight.Project Managing CASS related projects.
Requirements:

Keen attention to detailAbility to work on own initiativeGood knowledge of Microsoft Excel and WordHigh level of accuracy and numeracyGraduate level of educationGood understanding of FCA CASS rules relating to holding client money and safe custody assets Currently hold CF10a licence

You are primarily a software engineer that happens to have specialised on the frontend. You take pride in the fact that you own the entire software lifecycle.
You’ve seen a few generations of JS frameworks and patterns come and go while working on a variety of web applications and can discuss in some detail what worked and why. You’ve studied some software engineering and are orientated towards doing things with a structured engineering approach.
While you welcome the technical freedom of greenfield developments you also enjoy the intricacies inherent in evolving existing software.
You're capable of appreciating the subtle impacts of different tech choices but ultimately you're a pragmatic. You favour readability of code, instinctively rejecting excessive conciseness or artistry.
You naturally stay within the scope of a story. You are biased to action: you prefer to deliver the good instead of arguing what perfection is.
You think critically and are happy to be proven wrong. You're methodical in your hypothesis generation and testing loop. You don’t chase unicorns, have step-back reflexes. You're able to fend off pressure and give yourself and others the necessary space to think.
You have some experience mentoring younger developers. teach without patronising or overpowering. You are able to communicate the technical vision in an clear way, and correctly translate tech choices and their consequences into business terms.
You will make mistakes. We'll pick you up. You will learn from them. You'll laugh a lot.
Responsibities

Understand deeply one or more areas of the frontend and work with product owners to help drive our exceptional customer experience.

Produce code of great quality with the right degree of test coverage. Review code constructively, favouring the development of skills where possible. Share your programming expertise and disseminate important knowledge within the practice. Champion code cleanliness, quality and effectiveness.

Understand and help maintain the delivery pipeline for the services you work on.

Mentor more junior colleagues and participate in recruitment activities. Contribute to a rational, informed and civil discussion when technical disputes arise. Contribute to the Tech Radar.

Keep abreast of technological developments in the industry and their relevance to the company.

Essential Requirements

At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and a BSc in Software Engineering or Computer Science or higher degree.

Fully understand the principles of software engineering: modularity, encapsulation, immutability, composition, OOP and FP.

Deep knowledge of ES6, React, Node, Redux, Jest, Mocha, responsive design, REST verbs, API design and the JS memory model.

Know vanilla CSS and have a clear opinion about its flavours, e.g. SASS, CSSinJS and Styled Components.

Experience using tools like Webpack and/or Parcel as well as older tools like Gulp or Grunt.

Have a good understanding of agile methodologies, their principles and their ceremonies.

Have an understanding of the principles of design, UI and user experience.

Desirable Requirements

You have worked with different frameworks in the past, e.g. AngularJS, Backbone, jQuery, Ember.

Have worked with and debugged HTTP requests using Nginx, reverse proxies, HTTP authentication & headers.

Understanding of another language like Scala or Java.

Know the concepts behind microservices and Docker.

Experience working on large scale systems in a multi-team environment.

You are primarily a software engineer that happens to have specialised on the backend. You don't consider any part of your software's life to be someone else's problem.
You find Scala to be a great tool and you can talk about some of its drawbacks. You know how to take advantage of its multi-paradigm nature.
While you welcome the technical freedom of greenfield developments you also enjoy the intricacies inherent in evolving existing software.
You're capable of appreciating the subtle impacts of different tech choices but ultimately you're a pragmatic. You favour readability of code, instinctively rejecting excessive conciseness or artistry.
You naturally stay within the scope of a story. You are biased to action: you prefer to deliver the good instead of arguing what perfection is.
You think critically and are happy to be proven wrong. You are methodical in your troubleshooting and debugging. When you find yourself stuck you take a step-back an re-analyse. You're able to fend off pressure and get the necessary space to think.
You see in a mistake a learning opportunity. You teach without patronising or overpowering.
You are able to communicate the technical vision in an clear way, and correctly translate tech choices and their consequences into business terms.
You will make mistakes. We'll pick you up. You will learn from them. You'll laugh a lot.
Responsibilities

Have a broad understanding of the whole architecture and its different services and develop in alignment with it.

Gain deeper knowledge of the most important services. Contribute to plans for improvement. Detect scalability, integrity or maintainability issues and propose corrective action.

Produce code of great quality with the right degree of coverage. Review code constructively, favouring the development of skills where possible. Frequently share your programming expertise and disseminate important knowledge within the practice. Champion code parsimony, quality and effectiveness.

Understand the delivery pipeline and keep it in good health. Work in an ops-minded way.

Mentor more junior colleagues and participate in recruitment activities. Contribute to a rational, informed and civil discussion when technical disputes arise. Contribute to the Tech Radar.

Keep abreast of technological developments in the industry and their relevance to the company. Openly and continuously share your knowledge.

Requirements

You have at least 7 years of experience in software engineering and a BSc in Engineering or Computer Science or higher degree.

You're proficient with Scala in its different styles and paradigms. Experience with Akka is a plus. You're familiar with other languages such as Python, ES6/7 and variants, shell scripting. DDD and TDD are defaults for you.

You understand the main programming paradigms and can argue about their applicability to any given problem.

Have an understanding of different data stores and their suitability. Fully proficient with relational databases and SQL. Understand how the JVM works and working knowledge of some of its tools.

You fully understand microservices architectures and you're familiar with event-sourced ones. You have good working knowledge about REST APIs and associated tooling. You know of other API styles.

You have an understanding of data warehousing, data intensive applications and architectures (Spark, Hadoop distributions), data analytics and machine learning.

Have a good understanding of agile methodologies and their principles.

You have some experience building modern web applications and value a great user experience. You've welcomed the evolution in the languages, build tools and frameworks that have made frontend development more disciplined and productive. Webpack, React are pluses.

You have a generic understanding of AWS's offering. You have experience working with containerised environments. You understand the importance of, and have experience with Continuous Delivery, preferably with Concourse.

You like to break other people's stuff apart and build your own from what you have. You very well know you router from your modem, your Raspberry Pi from your Arduino, your TRRS from your XLR and what's the current version of macOS. Naturally inquisitive and keen to learn.
You like programming and the ability to automate the more menial parts of your work but you prefer to keep your hands on the equipment and fixing things.
You take pride in having all your equipment running smoothly and in solving issues before they become problems to anyone. You're open and approachable.
You will define the function of IT systems at Moneyfarm, working in close relationship with office management and reporting into the engineering department.
Main responsibilities:

Provide desktop and application support responding to, documenting and resolving service tickets in a timely manner according to SLAs.

Provision, maintain and support the entire fleet of laptops and desktops across two geographies (mostly macOS).

Procure, install and maintain all office electronic equipment, including printer, scanner, routers and APs, chromecasts and Raspberry Pis, backup servers and wall screens.

Ensure stable and healthy connections between offices, AWS VPNs and the internet.

Design, propose and maintain a meeting-room booking solution for Google Calendar with in-room interfaces.

Design, propose and maintain a solution for seamless video conferencing across offices.

Manage the sale or disposal of old equipment in a safe, secure and environment-friendly way.

Assist with user account activation and deactivation, increasing the level of automation and streamlining the process where possible.

Own the equipment inventory and take care of its organisation and adequate supply.

Be proactive in identifying issues that might affect the productivity of the business.

Must have:

At least two years of hands-on experience working in an end-user desktop support role or computer operations environment

Experience and a good understanding of Mac provisioning.

Knowledge of networking concepts, tools and equipment.

Experience in first line support.

Good to have:

Experience with one of JAMF, Airwatch or Addigy. Familiarity with two or more is a plus.

Have good communication skills both written and verbal.

Excellent time-management skills.

Some knowledge of linux, shell and scripting languages.

An interest for identity and security is a plus.

Experience with G-suite and an understanding of LDAP and SSO are nice pluses.

Interested in working at Moneyfarm but can't see a suitable vacancy?
Please feel free to submit a speculative application by attaching your CV and adding some detail regarding:

the type of roles you are interested in

location you would like to work in

salary expectations

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