Senior Software Engineer

• Design, build and own backend services in Django and Django REST Framework powering the web portal, mobile app and white-label environments.
• Work on the payments core, including card issuing and lifecycle, spend controls, transaction handling and third-party partner webhooks.
• Build and harden existing features and integrate workflow enhancements across the platform.
• Leverage AI tooling and ship AI-powered product features.
• Lead technical design by writing design documents and ADRs, running decomposition sessions and simplifying architecture.
• Improve test coverage and robustness and contribute to engineering ways of working and the SDLC/AI-DLC.
• Own production quality through Datadog monitoring and alerting, incident response and an enterprise-SLA on-call rotation.
• Review code, mentor engineers and improve AI tooling in everyday development.
• Collaborate closely with the Head of Engineering, Product, commercial teams, stakeholders and customers.

• 6+ years of backend engineering, with several years building and running production Django applications.
• Deep Django knowledge including the ORM, migrations, permissions, DRF and async/background task patterns.
• Strong relational data modelling and PostgreSQL skills.
• A testing mindset: you write test suites as a matter of course and know how to bring testing patterns and the right level of coverage to an existing codebase.
• Experience shipping on cloud infrastructure with Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Sound security instincts, including authentication and authorisation with an identity provider such as Auth0 or Okta.
• Ownership: you drive work from design doc to production and stay accountable for it once live.
• Clear written and verbal communication, and comfort working directly with Product and non-technical stakeholders.
• Nice to have: experience working in payments or financial services.
• Nice to have: experience working in regulated environments.
• Nice to have: experience in a fintech or startup scaling into enterprise customers.
• Nice to have: Datadog monitoring, alerting and incident response.
• Nice to have: infrastructure as code (Terraform) and GCP.

• Flexibility in work hours and location, with a focus on managing energy rather than time.
• Access to online learning platforms and a budget for professional development
• A collaborative, no-silos environment, encouraging learning and growth across teams
• A dynamic social culture with team lunches, social events, and opportunities for creative input
• Health insurance
• Leave Benefits
• 13th Month Salary