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Funding Circle
- London
- Funding Circle - London
Funding Circle brings together small businesses and investors in a way that is truly revolutionary. We’re here to foster an environment where small business can thrive. Our online platform provides a marketplace where investors receive better returns and small businesses find lower rates. The driving force behind our product is our engineering team; we are building elegant, sustainable, and scalable infrastructure on a global scale, and we want you to be a part of it!
Our mission: to build a better financial world.
Prospectus:
Would you describe yourself as an engineer who’s always ready to take on the next challenge? If your answer is yes, you’re going to fit right in with our global team. We’re looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Ruby Engineer who will bring elegance and simplicity to the forefront of our distributed systems. We are a group of passionate engineers whose bread and butter is learning new technologies and fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment – we’re looking for partners in crime who feel the same.
Bird’s eye view of the role:
- Be an automator: we are continually reevaluating our stack to improve efficiency throughout the pipeline. We practice continuous integration and are working towards a container-based deployment workflow.
- Be a builder: you’ll build and expand our highly-available architecture to handle over £3 billion in loans originated through our pipeline.
- Be a collector: you’ll help build scalable infrastructure to collect data for real time analytics and risk modeling.
- Be a collaborator: you’ll be expected to forge deep bonds with your business counterparts to truly understand the needs of our Borrowers and Investors. We work in an Agile environment including pair programming and daily standups.
- Be a teacher: be generous with your time and expertise to teach stakeholders and our fellow engineers how to answer their own questions with tools you build.
Our ideal teammate has
- 5+ years of overall Software Engineering experience. Ideally you will have at least a years worth of experience in Ruby but we are firm believers in Polyglots capable of picking up languages so if you have a desire to learn Ruby that works for us!
- an interest in Functional Programming languages.
- Comfortable in a Unix/Linux environment.
- Experience using a testing framework in their work process.
Brownie points for:
- Github or other open source code we can check out.
- Distributed systems experience.
- Experience with microservices and/or event-driven architecture.
- Operating at scale with low-latency systems.
- Experience working within a highly regulated industry such as finance or insurance.
*The stated experience level is a guide and does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience, provided the requisite skills can be demonstrated.
Why Join Us?
Happy employees are productive employees, that’s why we offer a hearty benefits package. From subsidized catered lunches, to a competitive salary, equity, and health benefits, we’ve got you covered! That being said, have you heard about what we’re doing?! Our mission is what really motivates us to come to work each day:
- We’re supporting small business, the engine of economic growth.
- We’re helping facilitate higher yields for investors and lower interest rates for borrowers.
- We can fund loans extremely quickly, all online!
- We have a clear competitive advantage globally in areas like domain expertise and regulatory processes.
To learn more about our work environment, culture, and perks, visit:
Please note – you must have proof of eligibility to work in the UK.