What We’re All About at Kroo
We’re creating the world’s most social bank and improving people’s relationship with money for good. Our mission is to remove the stress and social awkwardness that money creates, allowing people to freely enjoy their lives in a connected and meaningful way. We’re building a bank that’s better for customers, their friends, and the planet.
Here at Kroo, doing what is right is in our DNA. We act with integrity, transparency and honesty. We think big, dream big, and relentlessly pursue our goals. We like to be bold, break new ground, and we never stop learning. But most importantly, we are on this journey together.
How You’ll Contribute
Reporting into a Tech Lead, you’ll be embedded in one of our multidisciplinary Product Squads and will:
- Implement new features and deploy them using our Continuous Delivery approach
- Contribute to our product vision
- Work in an Agile cross-functional team of a Product Manager, Product Designer and Developers (We use a blend of processes that work for us inc. SCRUM, Kanban and Pair Programming)
- Be involved in the end to end cycle of building our product
- Champion quality code while being pragmatic
- Work in an inclusive, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical and ego-free culture where your talent is valued over your job title
You’ll get to work with a variety of new and interesting technology:
We mainly use the following tools and technology but you don’t need to have experience with all of them. Many of us didn’t when we joined! Our focus is always on finding the right technology for the job, if you’re willing to learn, we are interested in speaking with you.
- Clojure to write our backend microservices (please apply if you have experience with any Functional Programming language)
- React Native and Redux for our mobile applications
- Kafka for our asynchronous message queue
- AWS for our infrastructure
- Docker to run our services
- Terraform for our infrastructure provisioning and deployment
We regularly contribute to Open Source libraries and encourage our Developers to suggest new technology that can add value to building a bank.
Requirements
About You
- You have previous experience with or are excited about Functional Programming
- You’ve worked in a cross-functional Agile team
- You’d like to be part of a team that does Pairing Programming and Test Driven Development
- You have experience working with microservices
- You want to work in a product focused team that thinks about customers and user behaviour and builds sublime experiences for them
- You have experience deploying to cloud based infrastructure like AWS or similar
- You want to deliver a product using the principles of Hypothesis Driven Development
- You’d like to develop with mobile first design principles and build cross-platform Android and iOS applications with React Native
- You’d like to be part of building an inclusive and diverse culture in which everyone can succeed.
About Our Process
We understand that competency is contextual, so throughout the process, we aim to gain an understanding of your experience and, if successful, to provide you with a role reflective of your demonstrated seniority. Our general interview process is as follows, but if your circumstances or timescales require, we can be flexible with its structure:
- 30-minute meet and greet with our Talent Acquisition Specialist via Google Hangouts
- 1-hour live coding exercise to work through a coding challenge with members of our development team via Google Hangouts
- 1-hour system design. This is an opportunity to showcase a system you’ve worked on in the past via Google Hangouts
- 30-minute opportunity to meet with our Head of Engineering and executives via Google Hangouts
Please let us know if you have any specific requirements or need assistance so we can be as accommodating as possible for you.
Benefits
What We Offer
We're constantly evaluating and adding benefits to best support our employee's wellbeing and to help them thrive in and outside of work. The following benefits are what we currently offer:
- 35 total days holiday (25 annual leave, 8 bank holidays, 1 Kroo bank holiday, and 1 day off during the week of your birthday)
- 3 personal health days
- An employer-sponsored volunteer programme (up to 4 hours per month supported by our partner Matchable)
- Access to Spill, our mental health support partner
- A workplace pension, with 5% employee contribution and a 3% employer top off
- After 1 year of service, access to 50