Backend Engineer

About Moneybox

At Moneybox, our mission is to give everyone the means to get more out of life. We're guided by our belief that wealth isn't about the money, it's about the means to more - more freedom, opportunities, possibilities, and peace of mind. Moneybox is an award-winning wealth management platform, helping over one and a half million people build wealth throughout their lives, whether they’re saving and investing, buying their first home, or planning for retirement.

Job Brief

Our backend engineering teams are responsible for defining and delivering our strategic technology roadmap and platform capabilities that support the entire business.

With over 1.5 million customers and responsibility for managing £18 billion in assets, we prioritise the resiliency, performance, scalability, and adaptability of our systems to meet both current and future needs.

The team we are hiring for are dedicated to ensuring the seamless operation of our investment platform while providing tools and support to operations and customer teams to deliver a superior user experience. In this role, you'll collaborate within one of several cross-functional squads, building new features that directly benefit our customers.

This position offers the chance to contribute to impactful, high-visibility projects within a collaborative, cross-functional environment that values technical excellence. While we don’t require expertise in every tool or technology, a strong grasp of fundamental concepts is essential.

Our tech stack:

- C#, .NET 

- REST APIs, Hangfire, MediatR, Entity Framework, Blazor

- Azure: App Services, Functions, SQL Server, Service Bus, Event Hub, CosmosDB, Redis, Data Factory

- GitHub, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Datadog

What You’ll Do

• Hands-on coding to solve complex problems with a focus on defensive programming, resilience, and performance.
• Demonstrate self-guided problem-solving abilities to create robust technical solutions for vague business requirements.
• Take initiative to course-correct projects when they deviate from their intended path.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, QA testers, product managers, UX designers, mobile developers and operations teams to build new features.
• Contribute to regular planning sessions and task prioritisation.
• Take ownership of your code from inception to deployment into Production, following a continuous delivery model.
• Get involved in live incidents as required, following the internal incident management process.
• Support, coach, and mentor other team members, setting high standards, and continually improving processes.
• Provide technical support to internal teams and actively share knowledge through documentation, including Architectural Decision Records (ADRs).
• Initiate and contribute to wider engineering technical designs.

Who You Are

• Enthusiastic about contributing to a fast-growing company with a mission to make a positive impact on the world.
• A passionate and dedicated software developer with an interest in building resilient, performant and easy to understand solutions.
• A driven, ambitious self-starter who thrives on taking initiative and ownership.
• Embrace a continuous learning mindset, motivated to further develop your skills.
• Willing to share your knowledge and mentor other team members.
• Possess a collaborative attitude, comfortable working both alone and as part of a team.
• Knows how to balance professionalism with a sense of fun, fostering a positive and enjoyable work environment.
• Staying abreast of and (where necessary) applying the latest emerging technologies.

Essential Skills

• A degree in Computer Science or relevant experience.
• Experiences with delivering multiple challenging projects to agreed timeframes.
• Ability to be agile and react quickly to changing priorities.
• Experience designing and architecting scalable solutions.
• Strong understanding of: .NET (Core/framework), REST APIs, OO programming languages (we use C#) & Relational databases
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to communicate complex design ideas to the wider engineering group
• Able to work both alone and as part of an agile team.
• Able to actively participate in technical and commercial discussions.

What’s In It For You?

• Opportunity to join a fast-growing, award-winning and super ambitious business.
• Work with a friendly team of highly motivated individuals.
• Be in an environment where you are listened to and can actually have an impact.
• Thriving collaborative and inclusive company culture.
• Competitive remuneration package.
• Company pension scheme
• Hybrid working environment
• Home office furniture allowance
• Personal Annual Learning and Development budget
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health Cash Plan (cashback on visits to the dentist & opticians etc)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Gympass subscription to a variety of gyms and wellbeing apps
• Enhanced parental pay & leave
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays with additional days added with length of service.

Our Commitment to DE&I

At Moneybox, we promote, support and celebrate inclusion, diversity and equity for all, so that everyone can bring their full selves to work. We believe that diversity drives innovation, and that if our team is representative of our community of customers, we can better support their needs. To ensure our recruitment processes provide an equal opportunity for all applicants to succeed, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments that we can make. We are open-minded and always willing to go the extra mile to ensure all applicants can present their full self and potential.

Visa Sponsorship:

At this time we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role and we cannot consider overseas applications.

Working Policy:

We have a hybrid policy that includes 2 days from our London office and 3 from home. If the role states it is either hybrid or remote candidates must be based within the UK.

If you are unsuccessful in your application, we may keep your details on file so that we can tell you about other suitable vacancies which may be of interest to you when they arise in the future. If you would like to reach us then please email: talent@moneybox.com. If you would rather we did not keep your details on file, you can contact us at: DPO@moneyboxapp.com

Our Commitment to DE&I

At Moneybox, we promote, support and celebrate inclusion, diversity and equity for all, so that everyone can bring their full selves to work. We believe that diversity drives innovation, and that if our team is representative of our community of customers, we can better support their needs. To ensure our recruitment processes provide an equal opportunity for all applicants to succeed, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments that we can make. We are open-minded and always willing to go the extra mile to ensure all applicants can present their full self and potential

Visa Sponsorship:

At this time we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role and we cannot consider overseas applications.

Please read before you apply!

Please note if offered a position, the offer is conditional and subject to the receipt of satisfactory pre-employment checks which we will conduct such as criminal record and adverse credit history checks. As a regulated financial business, an adverse financial history could impact your suitability for the role. If you are aware of anything that could affect your suitability for the role, please let us know in advance. By sending us your application you acknowledge and agree to Moneybox using your personal data as described below.

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If you are unsuccessful in your application, we may keep your details on file so that we can tell you about other suitable vacancies which may be of interest to you when they arise in the future. If you would like to reach us then please email: talent@moneybox.com.

If you would rather we did not keep your details on file, you can contact us at: DPO@moneyboxapp.com