Senior Back-End Engineer

We’re building the future of private financial markets

Traditionally a space only for the wealthy and well-connected, we believe in a future where private markets are more accessible to investors and fundraisers. By leveling the playing field we hope to create a more equitable economy, where inspiring companies are connected to inspired investors, whoever and wherever they are.

Leveraging our trusted brand, global networks and incredible team, we’re building a technology-enabled ecosystem that is as diverse and dynamic as our investor network. As we progress on this ambitious journey, we’re looking for energetic and creative people to support and leave their mark on our platform.

Before Applying

As a Senior Back-End Engineer at Fundnel, you will have the opportunity to leverage your extensive full-stack software skills in a modern and rapidly evolving development environment, while also being deeply integrated into a broader team that’s on the leading edge of financial innovation. Blockchain, DeFi, API/service-driven architectures, server less infrastructure, data pipelines, front-end frameworks and no-code platforms are all key elements of our technological ecosystem that you will be exposed to.

As a senior engineer, both hands-on development and technical leadership are big parts of the job. You’ll be a key technical stakeholder in our feature planning process, helping to map complex business requirements to technical solutions and offering your ideas and opinions. You’ll have extensive opportunities to mentor more junior members of the team, and will contribute significantly to ensuring we continue to hire the best engineering talent to the team. We build quickly but carefully – the security and privacy of our investors and partners is paramount, so you’ll be keeping these front-of-mind throughout all of the work that you do.

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Job purpose

About your team

Operating across all of Fundnel Group, Ecosystem Services is a back-end focused team that builds and maintains the common services layer into which our platforms, partner integrations, third-party tooling, internal tooling, data pipelines and exchange all connect. Members of this team have a deep, holistic view of Group-wide business processes, and must balance the detailed requirements of each department with abstract “big picture” thinking that ensures the team builds the most flexible common technological infrastructure to serve a diverse set of stakeholders, each rapidly evolving strategies.

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We’re a supportive, social, and entrepreneurial team of former investment bankers, technologists and strategists. Clear, honest communication is key to everything we do

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Roles and responsibilities

The sorts of things you’ll be doing:

Working on one or more of our technical teams as a key contributor to our code base, as a technical advisor and a thought leader
Participating in code reviews within and outside of your team to help continuously improve the quality of our code
Having the opportunity to own your own deliverables, working with business stakeholders and peers on your team from planning through to release
Contributing to the continued development of our infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines
In consultation with our Data team, evolve the data schemas that underpin our business processes
Adding to our automated testing framework
Taking part in regular security testing
Keeping up to date with the latest in tooling and industry best practice, ensuring that we’re constantly discussing, evaluating and implementing the best
Expressing your ideas, opinions and feedback on our tech stack, tooling and culture to ensure we’re always improving as a technology team and as a company

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You’ll be a great fit for us if you

You’ll be a great fit for us if you have

4-7 years of software engineering experience
Strong experience in multiple object-oriented and/or functional programming language. We’re language-agnostic in our hiring, but have JavaScript/Node, Python, GoLang, Rails and others in our ecosystem stack
A strong sense of what it takes to build a scalable, secure and cloud-native application architecture
Able to choose the right coding pattern for the job, including around building easily testable code (if not via pure TDD, at least leveraging those principles)
Good experience with source control systems like Github or Bitbucket, and how they work within a team
Strong code review habits, leading by example on being proactive and constructive with comments and conversations among your peers
Excellent knowledge data modelling in both relational and non-relational databases
Good familiarity with service-oriented architectures and API-driven system design

Beyond the technology, we also hope you’ve got some interest in:

Financial services, particularly the investment space
Digitised and decentralized finance (DeFi), and all the new financial products and possibilities that come with these innovations (cryptocurrencies, tokenized assets, NFTs, etc.)
An appreciation for experimentation and designing systems/processes that accommodate business and technical agility
Food! We talk about it a lot :)

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As a close-knit, social team we generally prefer to work together in person at one of our offices. That said, we provide a flexible working environment that is adaptable to periods of working from home.

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Thanks for reading. We’re looking forward to meeting you!

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Team Fundnel

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At Fundnel, we want rule benders, questioners, believers, and determined independents who think fearlessly outside of the box; we want you. We’re always on the lookout for great people to join our team.