Senior Software Engineer

About Moneybox

Moneybox is the award-winning app that helps you turn your money into something greater. We've brought saving, investing, home-buying, and retirement services all together into one simple app, so it's easier than ever to achieve your goals and build wealth, whatever your starting point.

Job Brief

Our backend engineering teams are responsible for defining and delivering our strategic technology roadmap and platform capabilities that support the entire business.

With over 1.5 million customers and responsibility for managing £12 billion in assets, we prioritise the resiliency, performance, scalability, and adaptability of our systems to meet both current and future needs.

We are hiring for the following teams:

- Lightning Team: A functional team focused on shaping and executing our strategic technology roadmap. The team's mission is to design, build, and maintain core platforms that enable other teams across the organization to deliver exceptional experiences to millions of users.

- Investment Platform Team: Dedicated to ensuring the seamless operation of our investment platform while providing tools and support to operations and customer teams to deliver a superior user experience. In this role, you'll collaborate within one of several cross-functional squads, building new features that directly benefit our customers.

These positions offer the chance to contribute to impactful, high-visibility projects within a collaborative, cross-functional environment that values technical excellence. While we don't require expertise in every tool or technology, a strong grasp of fundamental concepts is essential.

Our tech stack:

• C#, .NET
• REST APIs, Hangfire, MediatR, Entity Framework, Blazor
• Azure: App Services, Functions, SQL Server, Service Bus, Event Hub, CosmosDB, Redis, Data Factory
• GitHub, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Datadog

What You'll Do

• Hands-on coding to solve complex problems with a focus on defensive programming, resilience, and performance.
• Demonstrate self-guided problem-solving abilities to create robust technical solutions for vague business requirements.
• Take initiative to course-correct projects when they deviate from their intended path.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, QA testers, product managers, UX designers, mobile developers, and operations teams to build new features.
• Contribute to regular planning sessions and task prioritisation.
• Take ownership of your code from inception to deployment into Production, following a continuous delivery model.
• Get involved in live incidents as required, following the internal incident management process.
• Support, coach, and mentor other team members, setting high standards, and continually improving processes.
• Provide technical support to internal teams and actively share knowledge through documentation, including Architectural Decision Records (ADRs).
• Initiate and contribute to wider engineering technical designs.

Who You Are

• Enthusiastic about contributing to a fast-growing company with a mission to make a positive impact on the world.
• A passionate and dedicated software developer with an interest in building resilient, performant, and easy to understand solutions.
• A driven, ambitious self-starter who thrives on taking initiative and ownership.
• Embrace a continuous learning mindset, motivated to further develop your skills.
• Willing to share your knowledge and mentor other team members.
• Possess a collaborative attitude, comfortable working both alone and as part of a team.
• Knows how to balance professionalism with a sense of fun, fostering a positive and enjoyable work environment.
• Staying abreast of and (where necessary) applying the latest emerging technologies.

Essential Skills

• A degree in Computer Science or relevant experience.
• Experience with delivering multiple challenging projects to agreed timeframes.
• Ability to be agile and react quickly to changing priorities.
• Experience designing and architecting scalable solutions.
• Strong understanding of:
• .NET (Core/framework)
• REST APIs
• OO programming languages (we use C#)
• Relational databases, ACID transactions
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate complex design ideas to the wider engineering group.
• Able to work both alone and as part of an agile team.
• Able to actively participate in technical and commercial discussions.

What's In It For You?

• Opportunity to join a fast-growing, award-winning, and super ambitious business.
• Work with a friendly team of highly motivated individuals.
• Be in an environment where you are listened to and can actually have an impact.
• Thriving collaborative and inclusive company culture.
• Competitive remuneration package.
• Company shares
• Company pension scheme
• Hybrid working environment
• Home office furniture allowance
• Personal Annual Learning and Development budget
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health Cash Plan (cashback on visits to the dentist & opticians etc)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Gympass subscription to a variety of gyms and wellbeing apps
• Enhanced parental pay & leave
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays with additional days added with length of service.