Senior Software Engineer

Role Overview

• As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in delivering high-impact projects from start to finish.
• You’ll tackle complex business problems, contribute high-quality code, and collaborate closely with your team to achieve great outcomes.
• You’ll also help guide others, sharing your expertise to support their growth.
• You will use your hands-on knowledge to advocate for improvements to the platform to support ambitious plans to grow market share and launch new products.
• You’ll play a key role in delivering projects from start to finish, engaging with stakeholders and helping your team work effectively to get the job done right.
• You will be comfortable slicing stories to minimise risk and ensure a consistent cadence, modelling these good working practices to colleagues.
• You will be able to proactively identify and lead cross-team initiatives which leads to improvements.
• You are able to demonstrate solid business acumen and can have an impact across multiple teams.
• You are able to take ownership of projects and lead the team to successful outcomes.
• You will have an understanding of good practices and patterns of software and cloud native architectures. You will also know how to use these to deliver high quality software and add meaningful value.
• As well as being a strong individual contributor, you will be able to plan works, lead the team in assessing the risks and work with product managers to make project decisions.
• You will be able to share knowledge and best practices with the wider department.
• You value transparency and can communicate effectively; shedding light on potential hurdles before they arise as well as when the unexpected happens.

Requirements

• You are an experienced back-end developer with a desire to work in C# (we’d love to hear from you if you have a background in C#, Java or Python)
• You are open-minded and adaptable, able to balance strong opinions with new perspectives.
• You see the big picture and help shape the company’s vision.
• You prioritise team success over individual output and actively support your colleagues.
• You enjoy understanding technical platforms and system architectures and how they fit into the bigger picture.
• You thrive on getting things done and deploying software to real users.
• You care deeply about clean code, automated testing, and continuous deployment.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Java
• Python

Benefits

• Wellbeing benefits such as private health insurance, life insurance, a flexible stipend and mental health coaching
• Matched pension contribution up to 10%
• Peer micro-bonuses through Bonusly
• £1,000 learning budget each year and unlimited professional development leave
• Peer-led ‘Brown-bag lunch’ learning sessions and an annual Learning Festival
• 25 days holiday leave + an extra day next year if you use it all + an extra day after 3 & 5 years
• 5 Years @ FundApps
• additional 4 weeks paid holiday leave during your 5th year as a FundApper
• 26 weeks leave for all new parents regardless of gender, location or family structure
• Volunteering leave
• Birthday off