Ebury is a leading global fintech company that empowers businesses to trade and grow internationally. It offers a comprehensive suite of products, including international payments and collections, FX risk management, trade finance, and API integrations. Founded in 2009 by Juan Lobato and Salvador García, Ebury is one of the fastest-growing global fintechs, with over 1,700 employees and 38 offices in more than 25 countries.
Full Stack Principal Engineer
London Victoria Office - Hybrid: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home
Ebury is seeking a highly experienced Principal Engineer to play a crucial part in our team. In this role, you will be one of the founding engineers in our new engineering teams. We have an exciting backlog of exciting greenfield projects, ready to go.
We’re looking for the right attitude, work ethic and entrepreneurial spirit to ask the hard questions. To be informed by data, but be led by a desire to solve our customers' problems. You should learn by default and be ever curious. You should be programming language, framework, tool agnostic but have strong opinions (weakly held) on the right tool to solve our biggest problems.
What we offer:
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Discretionary bonus based on performance
- Continued personal development through training and certification
- We are Open Source friendly, following Open Source principles in our internal projects and encouraging contributions to external projects
Responsibilities:
- Drive growth for Ebury.
- Contribute to the long-term technical strategy beyond individual projects, offering comprehensive solutions that encompass various areas of the technology stack.
- You will be focused on influencing engineering culture, technical direction, and strategic decision-making, often without having direct reports.
- You tackle problems and projects with a long-term impact on Ebury's health and success, often involving research and innovation.
- Leverage data as a powerful tool to design essential elements effectively.
- You will write clean and functional code for both the front-end and back-end. We mainly work with Python/Django & Node.js in the backend with React/VueJS in the frontend, but experience in any other modern language and frameworks is ok.
- Craft and manage services with a focus on robust and scalable APIs and seamless integration, incorporating monitoring systems and alerting services
- Pursue high code quality, backed by a solid testing regime with Github actions
About you:
- Skilled in designing scalable, robust, and high-performance architectures that meet the evolving needs of the business.
- Extensive understanding of algorithms, object-oriented programming, functional design, and industry best practices.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent proficiency.
- Extensive Experience: Over 10 years of real-world application in developing and implementing tech solutions.
- Expertise in any modern programming language and front-end frameworks, such as Python 3 and Vue 3, with a strong commitment to continuous learning and adaptation.
- Experience in applying AI/ML to solve customer problems is a valuable bonus.
- Fluent in English to facilitate seamless international collaboration.
- Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
- Adept at tackling complex problems and projects with a long-term impact on the company's success, including research and innovation.
- Experience working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and integration of technical solutions with business goals.
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About Us
Ebury is a FinTech success story, positioned among the fastest-growing international companies in its sector.
Founded in 2009, we are headquartered in London and have more than 1700 staff with a presence in more than 25 countries worldwide. Cultural diversity is part of what makes Ebury a special place to be. From Sao Paulo to Dubai, Bucharest to Toronto, we enjoy sharing team experiences and celebrating success across the Ebury family.
Hard work pays off: in 2019, Ebury received a £350 million investment from Banco Santander and has won internationally recognised awards including Financial Times: 1000 Europe's Fastest-Growing Companies.
None of this would have been possible without our proudest achievement: our great people. Enthusiastic, innovative and collaborative teams, always ready to disrupt and revolutionise the fast-paced FinTech sector.
We believe in inclusion. We stand against discrimination in all forms and have no tolerance for the intolerance of differences that makes us a modern and successful organisation. At Ebury, you can be whoever you want to be and still feel a sense of belonging no matter your story because we want you and your uniqueness to help write our future.
Please submit your application on the careers website directly, uploading your CV / resume in English.
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Ebury London, England Office
100 Victoria Street, London, United Kingdom, SW1E 5JL
