Back End Software Engineer Full Time

FundApps
The Engineering team at FundApps is a team of ca. 50 smart, friendly people who collaborate closely and take pride in delivering best-in-class software and providing an extraordinary experience to our clients. We’re solving some of the most challenging problems in financial services, building compliance products that are 10x better than what’s on the market. What we do as engineers has a real life impact on thousands of people across the globe!
As part of the Engineering team, you’ll be working on a suite of innovative products that monitor over US$19 trillion in assets under management (17% of the global total!) every single day, used by some of the world’s largest Investment Managers.
In Engineering we value professionalism, sustainability, and respect; we hold each other to high standards, give each other considered and constructive feedback, work smart, and look out for each other. Learn more about our engineering culture here!

The role
As an Established Engineer you can be relied upon to tackle ambiguous problems, own projects end to end, have effective communication skills, deliver great code and help others succeed in their own tasks through your skills and knowledge.

Key competencies and responsibilities:
Expertise and Knowledge
You will have an understanding of good practices and patterns of software and cloud native architectures. You will also know how to use these to deliver high quality software and add meaningful value.
As well as being a strong individual contributor, you will be able to share knowledge and demonstrate good practices to your colleagues.
Delivery
You will use your hands-on knowledge to advocate for improvements to the platform to support ambitious plans to grow market share and launch new products.
You will be comfortable slicing stories to minimise risk and ensure a consistent cadence, modelling these good working practices to colleagues.
Ownership & Impact
You will help identify ways to improve our overall architecture and lead from the front on delivering on new technical solutions.
You are able to demonstrate solid business acumen and can articulate the impact of your work.
You are able to own one or more team objectives.
Communication & Influence
You will be able to share knowledge and best practices with the wider department.
You value transparency and can communicate effectively; shedding light on potential hurdles before they arise as well as when the unexpected happens.
What you’ll bring to the team:
You are a pragmatist who believes in strong opinions weakly held.
You are a team player who focuses on team success over individual output, and are always willing to help your colleagues out.
You are an experienced developer with a real passion for back-end related work, with experience in C# (or a desire to learn it and relevant experience in another language).
You get a kick from understanding the technicalities of platforms and system architectures.
You thrive on getting things done and deployed to users.
You care about your craft and are hungry to learn new skills and improve your existing ones.
You know and appreciate automated testing, clean code and continuous deployment.
Our tech stack:
Back-end: C#
Data storage: PostgreSQL; Amazon storage including Aurora, DynamoDB, S3
Infrastructure: Terraform & AWS, using Fargate, Lambdas, Step functions, and a lot more!
Pipeline: GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, Serverless
Front-end: React, TypeScript
£80,000 – £90,000 a year
A couple of important details
We require permission to work in the UK without sponsorship.

We work hybrid and ask that new FundAppers work at our shiny London office 3 days per week during their probationary period to really get to know the business and other FundAppers.

About FundApps
FundApps is a company powered by experts, with a client community of 1000s and a culture underpinned by ethics. Oh – and we make the best regulatory software so our clients can “get a good night’s sleep now they have FundApps” real client quote .

Many lawyers, ex-regulators, info sec and other experts work for the B Corp that is FundApps. We are all about future-proofing our compliance monitoring and reporting software so we can always monitor the £19trn (and growing) of AuM for the industry’s most active and happy global compliance community we get top notch NPS + CSAT scores year after year .

Good people, good business, good ethics. We are FundApps.

Life at FundApps
Work/life balance with flexible hybrid working
Wellbeing benefits such as private health insurance, a flexible stipend, mental health coaching and a Headspace subscription
Matched pension contribution up to 10%
Peer micro-bonuses through Bonusly
£1,000 learning budget each year and unlimited professional development leave
Peer-led ‘Brown-bag lunch’ learning sessions and an annual Learning Festival
25 days holiday leave + an extra day next year if you use it all + an extra day after 3 & 5 years
5 – additional 4 weeks paid holiday leave during your 5th year as a FundApper
26 weeks leave for all new parents regardless of gender, location or family structure
️ Volunteering leave
Birthday off

We are proud of the diversity of all FundAppers – it makes us strong. You will find flexibility around religious observances, our national flags all around the office, and Pride celebration! If you’re looking for a workplace where you can just be yourself, you’re in the right place.

Your privacy
Any information you submit through our job application process will be used for the purposes of assessing your fit for a role at FundApps. We may also retrieve and store information from your public social media profiles for the same purpose. By applying for this position, you consent to your data being processed in accordance with the FundApps privacy policy.