Senior software engineer (6 month contract)

This is a remote role within the UK falling under IR35 regulations.

About Us

Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform that’s on a mission to helping more people to invest – and invest well.

We’re B-Corp certified with an amazing product-market fit, impressive early traction and the potential to transform an outdated industry, for the better. We've been growing fast and will scale even faster over the next few years.

We’re also proud to be part of Octopus, the £multi billion group that's on a mission to breathe new life into broken industries, through companies like Octopus Energy, Octopus Investments and Octopus Money.

Check out the Seccl website for the latest on our products and our mission to shape the future of investments.

The role

We're looking for a talented back-end software engineer to design, develop, and implement reliable and scalable software solutions.

You'll leverage your expertise in Javascript, Typescript, and Node.js to build new functionality for our application. This is a hands-on contract role where you'll play a key role in the entire software development lifecycle.

We're looking for a team player who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is excited to collaborate on innovative projects. This is a contract position, and the ideal candidate should have a proven track record of full stack development using TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, AWS (Lambda, Serverless, SNS, SQS), event-driven architecture.

On a typical day you will be…

• Work collaboratively in a domain aligned cross-functional squad made up of developers, testers and product along with colleagues from customer and operations.
• Build and implement of a range of developments.
• Provide hands-on expertise throughout software development (test, debug, deployment, monitoring and support).
• Work on software specification and documentation.
• Help develop and promote appropriate processes and best practice, always looking for better ways of working to drive scalability.

You’ll be successful if you have…

• Excellent expertise in backend development with a deep understanding of TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js
• Experience of full stack development (Next.js, React, .NET all beneficial)
• Experience of Amazon Web Services, including Lambda, SQS and SNS and knowledge of Serverless environments
• Experience of working within a complex event-driven messaging architecture.
• Excellent experience of implementing quality controls through the testing pyramid and writing thorough unit tests to ensure code is robust and reliable.
• Experience of MongoDB
• Experience of continuous integration and working in a collaborative, rigorous product refinement process in a strong Agile Scrum environment.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to express new ideas and solutions to both technical and non-technical audience.
• Previous experience of wealth management is beneficial.

Our culture

We're proud to put people first, creating a culture where we truly listen to what matters most to them. Our transparent and inclusive environment encourages diversity of thought, challenge and experimentation.

Check out our Glassdoor page for the latest reviews or our LinkedIn for company updates and insights from the team.

Interview process

Interviewing is a two-way thing, and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you. Our interviews are conversational, so come with questions and be curious. In general, you can expect the interview process to look a bit like this:

• One stage – 65 mins combined interview with Talent Partner and Engineering manager that will combine cultural questions and live technical discussion (system design interview)

⏳ We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out and you should expect to hear back from us within one to two weeks of applying.

🌈 Our aim is to build a diverse and inclusive company of awesome people, with unique skills, passions and experiences. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

If this sounds like your kind of thing, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We’d love to hear from you!