Back End Engineer
Moneyhub, United Kingdom
Job Description
Site Reliability Engineer / Back-End Engineer
SRE, Node.JS, Docker, Data Connections, AWS, DevOps
Who are we and why do we do what we do?
We are a data and payments company on a mission! We’re a group of developers, financial experts, and optimists who share a vision for improving the financial wellness of people, their businesses, and their communities.
We started this company with the aim of changing how the industry used and viewed data. As architects of Open Banking, Open Finance, and Open Data, we strive to be a force for good changing the status quo of how businesses interact with people.We strive to serve the whole population through every change in their finances.
We do this by powering businesses through our APIs and PFT solutions as well as our own personal financial management app for consumers.
We can only do that by being an inclusive and diverse organisation. We invest in our people, and enjoy an environment focused on innovation, collaboration and openness.
What do we offer?
We champion flexibility, and we trust and respect our employees to deliver results in a way that best suits them, working around their own lives and commitments.
We live and breathe a fantastic culture of remote working and you will perform your duties predominantly from your home. However, the heart of Moneyhub is in Bristol and from time to time you will be required to attend company meet ups
As well as a truly flexible approach, we also offer a fantastic range of benefits, including:
- 10% contribution towards your Pension from your very first day with us;
- 25 days of holiday (plus bank hols), rising to 30 days after two years;
- Choose to take your entitlement to UK bank holidays at other times based on your own days of significance;
- Private medical insurance, including cover for pre-existing conditions, plus dental and optical benefit;
- Six week Moneyhubber Family Pay when you become a new parent;
- Permanent health insurance and life cover (death in service);
- Employee assistance programme;
- Professional development support;
- Life event leave;
- Holiday purchase and more.
Requirements
Sounds great right? What will you be doing?
We're looking for a talented Node.js engineer to join our team. Initially you will be working on an exciting project with a global advisory partner expanding our international Open Finance connections.
We operate a highly automated microservices platform running on AWS. We work in a DevOps manner - automating as much as possible. We run a continuous delivery workflow - with services automatically deployed once automated tests pass. We connect to a growing number of financial institutions via several different approaches including OpenBanking, bespoke APIs, offline data loads and consumer consented screen scraping technologies and a major part of your role will be looking after the reliability and performance of these connections.
This is a role in which you can grow and gain a huge amount of experience in AWS, Kubernetes, Node.JS, OpenBanking and APIs. We can either considers people with expertise in these technologies or someone who is looking to learn.
Responsibilities:
- Data Connections - their stability and performance - this will include working with the engineering team to improve reporting and automated alerts.
- Working with our DevOps team to continually improve our platform - more automation, taking advantage of AWS services, etc.
- Be an active member of the Agile delivery teams, creating CI environments, problem solving and debugging with the developers.
- Carry out 2nd line support tasks, responding to alarms and SLA failures generated by the system monitoring tools.
- Proactively monitor systems and react to events as and when they occur, and ensure our systems are always there for all of our customers.
- Collaborate and contribute code with the Software Engineering team - we use mostly JavaScript.
Desired Skills and Experience
Essentials:
- Docker
- Node.js
Nice to have:
- Kubernetes (and AWS EKS)
- Kibana and Elasticsearch
- AWS Athena
- Newrelic amp; Pagerduty
- Authentication methods (OpenID Connect/OAuth, JWTs)
- TypeScript