Senior Software Engineer - Core Systems

ABOUT THE ROLE

We're building the core banking capabilities that power everything at Onmo - the systems that hold accounts, move money, calculate interest and generate statements. The Core Systems team owns these capabilities end to end, along with the shared services the rest of engineering builds on.

You’ll help build new core systems from the ground up as we grow and pursue a UK banking licence, evolve the services every team depends on, and set patterns that get adopted across engineering. Your work reaches customers through every journey at once.

• Backend: Node.js / Type Script on AWS - serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Bridge, Kinesis) and containerised compute (ECS, ECR, EC2), with more of the latter as our core systems grow

• Frontend: React / Next.js

• Infrastructure: Terraform, Git Hub Actions CI/CD, Docker

• Observability: Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki

• Design, build and run core banking capabilities - money movement, interest, statements, reconciliation - that are accurate, monitored and dependable

• Build new core systems and migrate off vendors safely: parallel runs, reconciliation, clean cutovers

• Own and evolve our shared services: modernise patterns, improve reliability and performance, keep them easy to build on

• Set patterns that get adopted across engineering through our RFC process - landed as libraries, guides and paved paths, not one-off fixes

• Review other teams’ contributions to core‑owned services: quick, helpful reviews that keep the bar high without blocking anyone

• Write code that sets the standard - tested, correct, documented - and mentor engineers across the function

• Help shape technical direction with the tech lead: architecture, build-vs-buy decisions, engineering standards

• Make our systems self-serve, so other teams can ship on them without needing us

• You care about correctness - edge cases, idempotency, retries, reconciliation - because this code moves money

• You're comfortable designing distributed, event-driven systems and reasoning about failure modes and data consistency

• You'd rather build the paved path than fix the same problem five times, and you write things down so others can follow

• You communicate clearly with engineers, product and business stakeholders, and review others' work firmly and kindly

• You're pragmatic in a startup: happy across greenfield builds and a legacy estate mid-migration, choosing boring technology when boring is right

• You want real ownership of foundational systems

• Can operate effectively under ambiguity

• Proven experience as a senior backend or full-stack engineer building and running distributed systems in production

• Strong Node.js/Type Script and AWS, across serverless and containerised workloads

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform; CI/CD as a habit

• A track record of raising engineering standards around you - through reviews, patterns, tooling or mentoring

• You write clean, tested, maintainable code and leave systems more understandable than you found them

• Fintech, banking, payments or ledger experience - reconciliation, card rails, double-entry accounting

• Experience with core system migrations or vendor replacements

• Experience getting real leverage from AI-assisted development tooling

• Start-up experience

At Onmo we all take collective responsibility for our individual roles in creating the best outcomes for our customers. In this role that involves:

• Following the FCA Conduct Rules:

  • You must act with integrity

  • You must act with due skill, care and diligence

  • You must be open and cooperative with the FCA, PRA and other regulators

  • You must pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly

  • You must observe proper standards of market conduct