Kotlin Engineer

As we continue to build upon the diversity of our team we are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring on board a Kotlin engineer to a newly forming pod. This is an opportunity to bring new experience, perspective and capabilities to our design discussions, helping shape our approach to delivering elegant solutions to complex engineering challenges as we continue to grow. This is the team that put the Tech in FinTech, our current tech team is around 80 strong and have helped transform finance by building a next-generation lending platform, a next-gen credit card, and auto-finance product, and they’re at it again with brand new product launches this year.

We're looking for an engineer with a depth of knowledge and recent hands-on Kotlin experience that enables them to not only deliver elegant, idiomatic solutions in Kotlin but also to contribute new knowledge and experience to our frequent collaborative design forums with stakeholders from every area of the business.

There’s a lot to do, from building and integrating new API’s to help build out our new collections function to creating new internal tools and supporting our expansion of new products and supporting services in the US.

We believe that software engineering is more than just code - it’s about people. We believe that the best teams are made of great people. That fundamentally great software engineering is about alignment, sharing what we know and being nice to each other. When we put all this together we make software engineering better by continually improving our capabilities as a team and making our working environment a happy and productive place.

Requirements

• Strong commercial Kotlin experience
• An ability to write simple, clean code
• Experience and understanding of databases; relational databases are a must, NoSql would be nice too
• Be able to quickly understand complex, financial business domains
• Understand different software architectures rapidly
• Understands abstraction and interpolation
• Able to write comprehensive, automated tests at all levels of the pyramid
• Understanding of the Kanban agile methodology; not a deal breaker if you don’t
• Someone who can get along with others and build relationships
• Someone who wants to continually learn, improve and collaborate
• Someone who can solve problems on their own but also knows when to go to their peers for help
• Someone who is a rational thinker and is aware of the ‘why’ behind the way they do things
• Someone who is a pragmatist who can sensibly weigh the tradeoffs between code quality and delivery

Company Benefits

• Stock options
• Private medical (comprehensive)
• Chefs in the office making lunch (Tuesday - Thursday)
• Work from home budget

Interview Process

• A 30 minute introductory call with the talent team
• A short coding exercise to complete in your own time
• Onsite or Video technical Interview lasting 60-90 minutes, comprising of:
• Introduction of the team and kind of work you could be doing daily
• Discussion around the coding exercise you completed
• Interactive architecture/design exercise
• Tech project walkthrough
• Onsite or video cultural/behavioural interview
• Questions you may have about the company, role, etc