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Backend Engineer
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
102 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Backend Engineer
Moneyhub
• Develop and optimize Node.js microservices designed for massive scale and low latency. • Manage and refine our Kafka implementation and broader event-driven patterns to ensure data integrity and system decoupling. • Maintain and optimize our data layer, specifically working with PostgreSQL. • Oversee the engineering and deployment of services across AWS and GCP via Kubernetes. • Identify bottlenecks in the current architecture and propose/execute long-term structural improvements. • Act as the technical authority for high-performance systems, advising on "build vs. buy" and architectural trade-offs. • Contribute to the maturity of our CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting frameworks to ensure 24/7 reliability.
Job Requirements
- Strong experience building high-throughput, low-latency backend systems in production
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and performance trade-offs
- Hands-on experience designing and operating microservice-based architectures
- Solid experience with relational databases, including schema design, query optimisation, and performance tuning (e.g. PostgreSQL or similar)
- Experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes in cloud environments (AWS and/or GCP)
- Proven ability to identify architectural bottlenecks and lead meaningful technical improvements
- Confidence operating at senior level: influencing technical direction, making pragmatic trade-offs, and supporting other engineers
- A delivery-focused mindset, balancing long-term technical quality with business outcomes aligned to Moneyhub’s mission
- Helpful but Not Essential
- Commercial experience with Node.js in high-performance or high-scale environments
- Experience working with Kafka or other event-streaming platforms (e.g. Pulsar, Kinesis, RabbitMQ)
- Prior exposure to event-driven architectures and asynchronous data processing
- Experience operating hybrid or multi-cloud environments
- Background in financial services, fintech, or data-heavy platforms
- Familiarity with observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing) in 24/7 production systems
Benefits
- 5% company contribution towards your Pension from your very first day with us. 3% contribution from your self.
- 25 days of holiday (plus bank hols), rising to 30 days after two years;
- Choose to take your entitlement to UK bank holidays at other times based on your own days of significance;
- Private medical insurance, including cover for pre-existing conditions, plus dental and optical benefit;
- 3 Months Moneyhubber Family Pay when you become a new parent;
- Permanent health insurance and life cover - much greater than the industry standard (death in service);
- Employee assistance programme;
- Professional development support, with dedicated allowance of time and money;
- Life event leave;
- Cycle to work scheme;
- EV Car Scheme
- £750 towards professional memberships
- Remote working benefits, including work from almost anywhere, access to co-working spaces and support for your home office set-up
- High spec laptop
- Holiday purchase
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