Senior Software Engineer at runa in Runa London

Job description

• Application
• Runa is pioneering a first-of-its-kind payment rail that enables the seamless, global money movement at scale. Legacy banking and payment infrastructure struggles to support the demands of today's low-volume, high-velocity payouts, leading to inefficiencies in global payouts. Businesses worldwide send over $20 trillion annually in rewards, remittances, and disbursements often incurring costs of up to 50% per transaction and subjecting recipients to lengthy delays.
• Runa transforms this landscape by providing a new digital payments infrastructure that empowers businesses to send digital money instantly and cost-free to anyone, anywhere. The Runa API empowers thousands of businesses to make payments to 5 billion+ consumers in 190+ countries instantly to cards, wallets, bank accounts and gift cards. Leading companies such as Sodexo, TopCashback, Perkbox, Sweatcoin, Coinbase, and Globetopper rely on Runa to facilitate instant, flexible global payouts to tens of millions of consumers.

Responsibilities

• As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, implementing and deploying software services from end to end. You’ll produce clean, scalable, and reusable code to build products which will have a big impact on our customers.
• You will have the opportunity to work with a modern stack and serverless cloud infrastructure whilst guiding and mentoring more junior engineers in the team.
• Contributing towards the design, delivery and deployment of large scale, complex projects which are used heavily by thousands of people with high throughput.
• Using modern technology like AWS serverless infrastructure and events driven microservice architecture
• Mentoring more junior members of the team to help support their growth and development and help scale the team by leading on technical interviews.
• Being a subject matter expert on technology and domain-specific problems, and taking ownership of software services from end to end.
• Improving responsiveness and overall performance of our web services.

Requirements

• Solid experience as a Software Engineer architecting and developing new services and features from end to end.
• The ability to take ownership of design and architecture of large scale systems and developing API heavy software solutions without the need for guidance.
• A passion for promoting software engineering best practice, guiding and mentoring more junior engineers to deliver clean, scalable, and reusable code.
• Proactively contributing to the continual improvement of our engineering processes
• Even if you do not meet all of the above requirements but still think you would be a good fit for the role we would still encourage you to apply.

Skills

Required

• Solid experience as a Software Engineer
• Developing API heavy software solutions

Benefits

• 🏢 We have a hybrid structure with the requirement of 3 days a week at our London Office (Shoreditch)
• 📚£1,000 annual L&D allowance to invest in mastering your craft, including accredited studies. Plus 5 L&D days per year
• 🌴 25 days holiday + public holidays
• 🔋 Runa Reset Days - Runa closes on the first Friday of each quarter for a well-deserved, Reset Day
• ☀️ Summer Hours - In the month of August, we log off at 3pm on Fridays.
• 🗺️ Work from anywhere for up to 45 calendar days a year
• 🚀 Participation in the Employee Options pool giving you ownership in Runa
• 🚑 Private Medical + Dental Health Insurance with Bupa
• 👶 Enhanced parental leave for all new parents, up to 16 weeks full pay
• 💷 We are currently working towards salary transparency however we are not there just yet so our talent team will discuss this during the initial call to ensure that the right expectations are given.