Mid Level Backend Engineer (Node.js)
Mid-level backend engineer at Emma, a UK personal finance app startup, working directly with the CTO on backend infrastructure, scaling, and data/ML-driven features. Stack centers on TypeScript/Node.js, gRPC, MySQL/Vitess, Redis, and GCP with Kubernetes and Terraform; the role is fully office-based in London, Monday to Friday.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Middle
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- At least 2 years professional software development experience
- Thrives in environments with high responsibility and autonomy
- Holds self and colleagues to high standards
- Takes initiative to learn new skills required to complete tasks
- Results-oriented and avoids unnecessary tasks
- Works from the London office Monday to Friday (not hybrid)
Full description
About The Company
Emma is the app to manage all things money.
Our mission is to empower millions of people to live a better and more fulfilling financial life.
Emma was founded by engineers, who are extremely focused on coding, product and data. These are the three pillars on which we want to build a strong tech culture and fix personal finance once for all.
We have raised more than $8m+ to date to build the one stop shop for all your financial life. Our investors include Connect Ventures (investor in Curve, TrueLayer and CityMapper), Kima Ventures, one of the first in Transferwise, and Aglaé Ventures, early stage fund of the Groupe Arnault, investor in Netflix and Airbnb.
Alongside them, several angel investors, who have built and sold industry leading companies have decided to take part into this journey.
At Emma, We Are
- Bold
- Determined
- Focused
- Autonomus
We are a high-performance team and we run the company like a professional sports team. We expect each and every team member to move fast, have ownership over their work and hold each other to a high standard.
If you're not driven to own your work, execute swiftly, and innovate constantly, this isn't the right place for you.
Responsibilities
About the role
You will work directly with the CTO and your focus will span different areas, with challenges related to our backend infrastructure, from scaling challenges to data processing ones. We have an intense roadmap ahead, which includes a plethora of new features and integrations, which you will be part of.
Our Tech Stack
- Languages: TypeScript, Javascript
- Libraries and frameworks: gRPC, Redux, React Native, Next.js
- Datastores: Vitess, MySQL, CockroachDB, BigQuery, Redis
- Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, PubSub, Terraform
- Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry, Metabase
Some Of Our Current Interests Lie In
Product:
We are building the 1st Finance App in the UK, used by many people every day. We are shipping an average of a feature per week and tons of micro-improvements that compound in making our app valuable
Machine learning:
we have an enormous amount of transaction data, which we are using to provide better insights to our users. Predicting when a user is going in overdraft, when a card payment is coming through or clustering a huge set of subscriptions are a few of the problems we are tackling
Scaling:
our services are used by millions of people. We need to keep Emma up and running smoothly. This means an intense effort and quality in the work we do