Java Software Engineer

Software Engineer - Java

FinTech scale-up - Aspora

Full-time on site - Central London

£65,000 - £105,000 + full package + equity

Relocation package and Visa sponsorship for candidates based in Europe can be provided

About the company

After raising over $80m in funding from Hummingbird Ventures, Y-Combinator and Sequoia, Aspora is now scaling up their team to add a host of new features to their platform. They'reare building out service for intercontinental money transfers, coupled with market leading investment options and niche payment integrations, and has enabled over £3bn of transfers to date to their >400,000 users

About the role

As an early stage hire within the Engineering department, you will play a key role in building out new features, iterating on them, whilst also contributing to architectural decision making and system design. The team will be 3 backend, 2 iOS and 2 Android developers

You'll work closely with the founding team to bring the product vision to life, shipping code frequently and learning as you go while satisfying all critical security, performance, and uptime requirements for clients and users

• Design & Develop scalable backend systems in Java / Spring, with additional services written in Kotlin, Python and Golang
• Hands-on Coding - write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, ensuring high performance and security
• Optimize for Scale - build resilient, fault-tolerant systems that handle millions of transactions.
• Implement robust API architectures, distributed systems, and database optimizations.
• Improve Performance & Reliability - monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize backend processes.
• System Design—architect backend services that are modular, extensible, and scalable.

About you

• 3+ years in experience in Software Engineering, with experience in FinTech or at a scale-up being advantageous
• Commercial experience with Java / Spring preferred, but Python, Golang, Kotlin or Typescript candidates will be considered if willing to work in Java
• Desire to work in a startup / scaleup organisation, and an understanding of how this will differ from an established org
• History of making major contributions to system design and architecture, as well as shipping high quality code in TDD

Software Engineer - Java

FinTech scale-up - Aspora

Full-time on site - Central London

£65,000 - £105,000 + full package + equity

Relocation package and Visa sponsorship for candidates based in Europe can be provided