Job Description

Description

Who are we?

We want to help small businesses win. That\'s why we\'re here! We connect small business owners to investors - to create jobs, help families and power economies - because we believe that people are made to do more.

So far our investors have lent \xc2\xa315.2 billion through Funding Circle to 135,000 SME owners. In 2022, lending through Funding Circle\'s UK platform helped generate \xc2\xa36.9 billion in GDP while creating and sustaining 106,000 jobs. There\'s never been a better time to join!

At Funding Circle we deliver an amazing customer experience through technology. We are focused on empowering small businesses to not only borrow, but pay and spend as well. This will make Funding Circle a multi-product platform, serving a direct and embedded audience.

The team

The Developer Experience team is committed to reduce friction in the engineering workflow by providing the tooling and platforms that makes engineers happy in their day to day work and enables them to move fast.

We sit inside the larger \'Reliability & Infrastructure\' team and work alongside and closely with the SRE Core Practices team. We\'re currently growing and looking to hire by strengthening our capabilities in our Developer Experience tooling, maintaining our current tools and platforms, and developing new tools for FC engineers.

We are a group of passionate engineers whose bread and butter is learning new technologies and fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment - we\'re looking for people who feel the same.

What will you be doing?

• Be an automator: we\'re using cutting-edge technology to facilitate automation and repeatability. We practise continuous integration and are working towards continuous deployment.
• Be a builder: our engineers are building and expanding our highly-available architecture to handle over $2 billion in loans originated through our pipeline.
• Be a game changer: we\'re building infrastructure that has a competitive edge; we\'re using technologies such as Kubernetes, Apache Kafka , Serverless
• Be a collaborator: you\'ll be expected to forge deep bonds with your business counterparts to truly understand the needs of our Borrowers and Investors. We work in an Agile environment including pair programming and daily standups.
• Be an Innovator: You\'ll be helping shape a culture of SLOs within engineering
• Be a Pragmatist: Who is keenly interested in best practices, reducing TOIL and knowing when to make trade offs and why.

Are you?

• Knowledgeable and experienced with building, running and supporting Kubernetes clusters in a highly available, high traffic Production environment
• Experienced with working in cloud-based infrastructure (AWS)
• Familiar with one or more coding languages, preferably Go, Python, Ruby, Node
• At ease troubleshooting in complex environments using monitoring and logging tools (We use Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Prometheus & Graylog to name a few)
• Knowledgeable and experienced with Terraform

Did you know?

Research shows that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single criteria. At Funding Circle we are committed to building diverse teams so please apply even if your past experience doesn\'t align perfectly with the requirements. You might just be the perfect fit.

Why join us?

Talk to our recruiters about our workplace, culture and benefits. We have designed our offering around; Health, Wealth, Lifestyle & Development!

A few highlights are:

• Hybrid working environment (2 days a week in office), flexible working options with an amazing office and we will help support your home working set up.
• Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance.
• Learning and Wellbeing allowances AND other perks such as Gympass, Spill, Just Eat allowance, Electric Car Scheme and more!
• Access to Octopus Money Coach, Free Mortgage advisor partnership, Discounts at other retailers through perks at work.

Want to Build The Incredible? We\'d love to hear from you.

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