Senior Backend Engineer; JavaScript

Position: Senior Backend Engineer (JavaScript)
Soldo is the proactive spend management solution that frees progressive businesses to accomplish more.
Over 25,000 organisations across 31 countries use Soldo to end slow, messy, and inefficient spending, bringing financial agility and control over every expense. Soldo frees finance with a uniquely proactive approach to managing decentralised spending.
By combining a powerful spend management platform, a user-friendly app, and versatile payment methods, Soldo automates expense admin to eliminate inefficiency in managing business spending.
By proactively managing decentralised spend, organisations empower employees to spend when and where it's needed, keeping productivity high while avoiding month-end surprises.
Founded in 2015 by Italian digital innovator Carlo Gualandri, Soldo is headquartered in London, with offices in Dublin, Milan, and Rome.
What's in it for you
Private healthcare coverage for you and your family
Genuine career development opportunities (we love to see you succeed) - including your own annual €500 career development budget
Access to training and development - including a mentoring programme, workshops and the opportunity to progress onto our leadership programme
Flexible working options, including working from home or our Milan or Rome offices + 60 days’ work anywhere
Statutory Leave entitlements plus extra days off on Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve and your Birthday
CAF Annual Fiscal & Financial Support

We’re hiring a Back-End Developer to help design, build, and operate the services behind our Fin Tech platform.

You will join a collaborative, international engineering team working in an Agile environment and contribute to delivering reliable product capabilities in a regulated, security-sensitive domain.

In the modern development era, you’ll be expected to use AI-assisted development tools responsibly (for speed and quality), while maintaining strong human ownership of architecture, correctness, and production outcomes.

Write high-quality, maintainable code and clear technical/functional specifications.
Build services that are observable and operable in production (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) and participate in on-call/incident practices as needed.
Apply secure-by-default engineering practices for sensitive data and compliance-oriented systems.
code assistance, test generation, refactoring), while validating outcomes with reviews, automated tests, and security checks.
Strong experience as a Back-End Developer and interest in the Fintech space
Proven experience with Java and Spring (including Spring Boot), plus JPA and Hibernate.
Knowledge of build systems (Maven), version control systems (Git), and CI/CD (e.g.,

Experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, Aurora) and Amazon AWS.
Production mindset: observability, performance, reliability, and safe change practices (testing, rollouts, CI/CD).
Good knowledge of the English language (both written and spoken).
Knowledge of the Agile methodology (Scrum, Kanban)