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Atom Bank • Hybrid or Remote

Senior Backend Engineer - Business Lending

Employment type:  Full time
Salary:  £60,000 – £70,000 per annum

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top 3 scores:
89%

Location flexibility

84%

Autonomy

83%

Hours flexibility

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Job Description

We’re Atom...

The bank that's leading the fintech charge!

We’re not like the rest. We’re true innovators, and we’re redefining what a bank should be. Ours is a bank for today and the future, a mobile-first bank. Forget the stuffy branches, with Atom you can bank whenever, wherever, faster, and simpler.

Could you be the next innovator to join us?

What will your typical day look like? Different that’s for sure...

Technology is at the heart of the business, and we have a world-leading Technology stack that enables us to offer the most efficient, user-friendly app-based bank. The Technology team has end to end responsibility for all aspects of our Technology, from architecting the future, engineering solutions, to deploying and managing our technology services.

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Business Lending Value Stream team, where you will work on a number of initiatives including our broker portal (web-based app), however you’ll initially focus work on Flowable (Java based orchestration engine) with a middleware layer built using a Golang microservices. You’ll contribute to the technical leadership of one of our Backend Engineering teams and mentor & support other team members.

You will:

  • Work with Delivery Leads to deliver features, uphold ceremonies & work within SCRUM methodology.
  • Provide technical steer for design & ensure associated artefacts have agreed standards of documentation.
  • Develop various process solutions across business processes and systems using appropriate software languages/tools.
  • Design and develop data models/structures and API contracts, data transforms, algorithms using appropriate software languages/tools.
  • Be responsible for maintaining all associated design and document artefacts.
  • Ensure developed components have the appropriate level of quality and governance (version control, documentation, unit testing)
  • Be expected to support the software you have produced, ensuring stability not only in the resolution of defects while testing, but up to Production and future operation should incidents arise.
  • Work closely with third parties to facilitate integration with our backend systems, API gateway contracts, security, and producing bespoke integration where required.

What do we need from you?

  • Demonstrable, professional experience of Java & Golang and ideally React
  • Experience in an Agile environment.
  • Deep understanding of full stack development
  • Understanding of typical integration technologies & RESTful APIs
  • Exposure to and understanding of a standard Software Development Lifecycle
  • Experience in common software security principles and techniques.
  • Experience in message queue patterns and technologies.
  • Agile SCRUM/Kanban experience

What you’ll get from us?

  • Salary £60k-£70k
  • Flexible Hybrid & Remote working
  • 4-day work week
  • Annual Share Option – performance-related
  • Incredibly generous company pension scheme (maximum of 13% of Atom input – you can put in
  • more)
  • ‘All About Me’ fund: £200 per year to spend on personal development.
  • 22.5 days annual leave plus public holidays
  • Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan & Life Insurance
  • Enhanced Parental l Leave
  • Electric Vehicle Scheme

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
4-day week
Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Adoption leave
Shared parental leave
22.5 days annual leave + bank holidays
Teambuilding days

We asked employees of Atom Bank what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location flexibility
89%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours flexibility
83%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
77%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
79%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
79%
Employees feel that most people work flexibly
Autonomy
84%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Working at Atom Bank

Company employees

547

Gender diversity (male:female)

59:41

Funding levels

£500m+

Currently Hiring Countries

United Kingdom

Office Locations

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