Senior Backend Engineer; Node.js

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About The Company Emma is the app to manage all things money. Emma was founded by engineers who are extremely focused on coding, product and data. Our mission is to empower millions of people to live a better and more fulfilling financial life. We have raised more than $8m+ to date to build the one stop shop for all your financial life.

Our investors include Connect Ventures, Kima Ventures, an early investor in Transferwise, and Aglaé Ventures, among others. We are building a high-performance team and run the company with ownership, speed and high standards.

About You

• You are a software developer with at least 5 years professional experience
• You are excited by what we are building at Emma
• You thrive in environments that afford you high levels of responsibility and autonomy
• You hold yourself and those you work with to high standards
• You are driven to fulfil your potential and grow as an engineer
• You take the initiative to learn new skills required to complete tasks
• You behave like an owner, taking total responsibility for your work and considering the bigger picture
• You are results-oriented and avoid unnecessary tasks
• You have strong opinions, weakly held, and the humility to change your mind when presented with new evidence

Responsibilities

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. You will be part of an intense roadmap that includes a plethora of new features and integrations.

Our Tech Stack

• Languages:
  
  Type Script, Java Script
• Libraries and frameworks: gRPC, Redux, React Native, Next.js
• Data stores:
  Vitess, MySQL, Cockroach
  
  DB, Big Query, Redis
• Infrastructure:
  Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, Pub/Sub, Terraform
• Monitoring:
  Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry, Metabase

Our Process

• Take-home test
• Phone call with internal recruiter
• Second interview with CTO
• Onsite interview with CEO

Our Benefits

• Stock Options available
• Private Medical Insurance and Vitality perks
• Pension Contribution
• Employee Referral Scheme
• Emma Ultimate Subscription
• Mac Book
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• One-month sabbatical every 5 years
• Regular Socials

To facilitate communication, productivity and speed, we work from the office Monday to Friday. This is not a hybrid role. Please only apply if you can certainly meet this requirement.

Our office address is: 1st Floor, Verse Building, 18 Brunswick Place, London N1 6DZ
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May the gummy power be with you!