Software Engineer I - Backend -
Moneyfarm, Italy
Job Description
CV must be sent in English
Who we are:
We’re a pan-European digital wealth manager with 128,000 active investors (growing fast!) and over 3.6 billion on our platform. With 210+ people across 3 offices in Italy and the UK, we’re supported and funded by Poste Italiane, Cabot Square Capital, Allianz and Mamp;G.
We started in 2011 in Milan with a simple vision - to help more people improve their financial well-being by making personal investing straightforward and accessible through technology. Fast forward a few years, and we’re known as one of the most innovative fintechs headquartered in the heart of London.
Mission:
To provide investment solutions and advice to protect and grow client wealth through time.
Our Core Values:
We’ve built our business on three Principles:
- Relationships are our first asset: We’re one team, built on trust, honesty and transparency. We value our relationships above all else.
- Trust drives success: We give each other the space to grow. We empower our employees to succeed, so they can make a real impact.
- Our customers dream big, just like us: We see the bigger picture and we make sure our customers see it, too. We’re always focused on the best outcomes for our clients and for each other, no matter what the goal, or how big the dream.
What this means in practice:
At Moneyfarm, diversity is the foundation of our competitive advantage. We value our employees for who they are their backgrounds, experiences, talents, knowledge and individual differences. This is what makes us better at what we do. To accommodate our different needs and commitments, we offer flexible working to all. Our individual impact and output is what counts most.
Candidates who belong to 'Categoria protetta' (Italian Law 68/99) are more than welcome!
About the role:
In this role you will be Scala engineer in a cross-functional development team. Your first year at Moneyfarm will likely be spent contributing to the development of new features, fixing bugs and collaborating with your colleagues to gain an understanding of and continually improve our systems.
A successful candidate in this role will be pragmatic, collaborative, value simplicity and effectiveness, and be biased for action. They will consider being wrong an opportunity for learning and will not consider any part of the software development lifecycle to be someone else’s problem.
Your job title will be ‘Software Engineer I’, but your job will be to help us build a great product that our customers love, and a great environment to work in. We are looking for people who want to make an impact in whatever they can, contributing their ideas to how we can improve our product, our technology and the way we work.
Things we value are: an Agile approach to product development, using short iteration cycles, and frequent releases to customers; and a Product engineering Mindset.
Responsibilities:
- Build an understanding of the Moneyfarm architecture, develop in alignment with it and contribute to plans for improvement.
- Produce code of great quality with the right degree of test coverage.
- Review code constructively, and work with your colleagues to continually improve the way we work.
- Take a proactive approach to solving platform and delivery pipeline issues. You will work with the platform team(s) at Moneyfarm to optimise our delivery process and platform stability.
- Keep abreast of technological developments in the industry and their relevance to the company.
- Share your knowledge and apply it to improve the Moneyfarm systems and the lives of your colleagues.
Requirements
- You have at least 1-2 years of commercial experience in software engineering, a BSc in Software Engineering or Computer Science or higher degree non essential, but nice to have.
- Scala experience is highly preferred.
- Used to working with Git and collaborating with other developers.
- Familiar with CI/CD concepts and tools like Gitlab CI.
- Experience writing tests to verify your code.
- Experience working with cloud providers, docker orchestrators and event streaming systems is a plus but not essential.
- Able to communicate effectively in English (written and spoken), Italian is a nice to have.