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Location

Edinburgh, GB

Job Term

Full-Time

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Location: Anywhere (UK) - Home Based, Edinburgh, London

Salary - £35000 - £80000

In this role you will work in a cross-functional team who are asked to solve a problem, rather than be handed a task to do. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a high-growth environment with a fast-paced and collaborative culture where you will have great opportunities to work on challenging problems.

 About us:

Modulr is a fintech scale-up that is breaking new ground within the payments sector. We are in a digital age when businesses need to move money 24/7 instead of operating within regular banking hours. Companies are under mounting pressure to manage their cashflow, control their costs, comply with regulations, and handle complex supplier, customer and employment payment arrangements. Modulr develops cutting-edge API-first solutions that enable businesses to overcome these challenges and take control of their money. 

Some of our key achievements:

  • Ranked 42nd in Deloitte’s UK Technology Fast 50 companies in 2021
  • Modulr ranked 18 on LinkedIn’s 2019 Top Startups List in UK.
  • Named an official Best Workplace by Great Places to Work in 2020.
  • Ranked as the second fastest growing tech company in the UK by Dun & Bradstreet.
  • Awarded £10 million from the BCR Fund to further develop our innovative product.
  • Recently received £9m in funding from PayPal Ventures.
  • Five years old, Modulr has offices in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Amsterdam.
  • We have processed over 80m transactions to date with a value in excess of £50 billion of business payments.
  • We are multi-award winning and want to keep creating a world class product.
  • Recently won ‘Best Initiative from an SME’ category at the Card and Payments Awards.


About our culture and values:

At Modulr we are focused on building autonomous squads that are focused on working in the best possible way. We operate in a tribes and squad model with each area focused on a particular growth area. Each squad is small and cross-functional. We have big ambitions and have many interesting challenges ahead.

As an organisation we are built on the premise of 4 core values:

  • Build the extraordinary
  • Own the opportunity
  • Make giant strides
  • Achieve it together

This is The Modulr Way that helps drive what we do every day.

The Financial Services tribe at Modulr has a vision to be the most compelling payments proposition for our partners and customers, giving them the competitive advantage by putting payments at the heart of what they do. 

Our strategy is to provide our customers with seamless connectivity into payment schemes both domestically and overseas no matter where they're based. 

Taking the title of being the first non-Bank or Building Society to offer Confirmation of Payee, direct access to core UK payment schemes and early access to salary payments are just a few examples of how we're also striving to be at the forefront of core UK payments, European payments and payment innovation.

Our other tribes include:

Cards and Ops Tooling – Focused on our Virtual and Physical Card offerings and our internal tools for our operation teams.
Channels – Focused on the Small + Medium Enterprise market from client onboarding to integrating with third-party accountancy integrations and our customer portals.

About the tech:

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        String stack = switch (tech) {

            case ARCHITECTURE -> "Micro Services";

            case BUILD_TOOLS  -> "Gradle";

            case CACHE -> "Redis";

            case CLOUD -> "AWS";

            case FRAMEWORKS -> "Spring Boot";

            case INFRASTRUCTURE -> "Terraform, EC2, Kubernetes";

            case LANGUAGE -> "Java 11";

            case MQ -> "Rabbit";

            case ORM -> "Hibernate";

            case SCHEMA -> "Liquibase, Postgres";

            default                 -> {

                logger.info("Oops! We haven't selected this tech yet, come help us decide!);

            }

        };

        logger.info("%s : %s%n", tech, stack);

    }

 

 :

  • Expert in Java (or similar object-oriented languages willing to learn Java)
  • Open-Source technologies, such as Spring and Hibernate.
  • Demonstrated ability to work with Microservices
  • Open-source RDBMS technologies such as PostgreSQL.
  • Strong understanding of OOP and design patterns.
  • Experience of REST API design

About you:

  • Clear and responsive communication
  • Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, appropriate judgment and decision-making skill
  • Commitment to collaboration and teamwork
  • Proven ability to effectively manage timelines and deliverables
  • Meeting deadlines and strong attention to detail
  • You are a self-started, motivated team player who thrives in a fast-paced environment

About the role:

  • Design, develop, analyse, document and support testing of products, systems or subsystems
  • Coordinate with other teams at sub-system and system level to identify software needs and solutions
  • Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
  • Develop and execute test procedures for software
  • Proactively identify issues, bottlenecks, gaps, or other areas of concerns or opportunities and work to either directly affect change, or advocate for that change
  • Work in an agile environment - Scrum or Kanban
  • Document best practices, guides, systems design, reference architectures and implementations
  • Participate in design and code reviews
  • Contribute to the evolution of our architecture to make it more flexible and easier to use

About the interview process:

For this role you will go through the following process:

  • Pre-Screen call – This will be with our talent team this usually lasts about 30 minutes and is a chance for us to learn more about you.
  • Technical Test - This is a short take home technical for us to get a better understanding of your technical ability, this helps us to understand the level of questions we will ask at the next stage.
  • Technical + Hiring Manager call back to back.
    • Technical call – This is a chance to meet with some of our great engineers. We will walk through your technical task, ask some technical questions and then we will have a chance for you to ask us some questions as well.
    • Hiring manager call – This is a chance to meet some of our engineering manager group. This part will be more about learning about you as a person and understanding what motivates you.

About our benefits:

In addition to a highly competitive salary, our employees enjoy the benefits of flexible working. Our offices are modern, with lots of natural light and break out areas. Importantly, our work is challenging and interesting, you will gain valuable experience in a rapidly scaling business at an important phase of growth while contributing to our collaborative culture.

  • Performance discretionary bonus.
  • Pension.
  • Flexible benefits.
  • 34 days holiday.
  • 160 hours of bookable learning and development time.
  • Flexible working.
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