Backend Engineer
On site
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
11-03-2025
Job Specifications
Join nsave as Backend Engineer
At nsave, we’re building a new kind of fintech, focused on transforming the way underserved communities manage and grow their wealth. We’re looking for an exceptional Backend Engineer to join us in shaping the future of our platform and services. If you're passionate about building robust, scalable, and secure financial infrastructure, this is your chance to make a lasting impact in a mission-driven company.It’s a chance to be at the forefront of designing and engineering the core systems of nsave, a company working to protect and grow the wealth of the financially excluded.
Location: Full-time, on-site in London, UK (Spitalfields)
Why You Should Join Us
As a Backend Engineer at nsave, you’ll play a critical role in building the infrastructure that powers our financial services. You’ll work closely with the CTO, CEO, and the broader engineering team to ship, architect and scale a resilient, high-performance system that serves tens of thousands of users across different jurisdictions.
We’re backed by top investors, including Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, and SV Angel, and we’re looking for a world-class engineer to help us shape the future of financial access for underserved communities.
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and own important subsystems of our infrastructure and development environment. This includes our service architecture, service reliability, build and release, engineering operational health, security, and integration with compliance and banking services.
Proactively contribute to system compliance and health, identifying weak spots in our codebase and infrastructure, and prioritizing new projects to improve them. This includes ensuring systems are performing at expected levels from a user-facing finance product, and are compliant with internal policies and external regulations (Don't worry about knowing what these are exactly, it's part of onboarding :D).
Adopt a user-centered mentality. We expect things to rapidly change and new requirements to come up from week to week which may require adjusting priorities. Such an environment comes with its own challenges, and we expect you to respond to changes quickly.
Scale the engineering team! Drive adoption of paradigms and technology to continually improve the quality of our codebase and product. Interview candidates and help with engineering recruiting as we rapidly grow. Define new engineering processes to accelerate our growth, improve team organisation, and support your teammates.
Qualifications
Breadth in platform and infra knowledge: You are familiar with a range of engineering functions that allow us to robustly scale our infrastructure and team. You're comfortable reasoning about topics such as backend architecture, databases, site reliability, infrastructure as code, and continuous deployment.
Supporting fellow coworkers: You care about the operational health of the team, and about supporting other coworkers to iterate quickly on the product and to ship fast. You are knowledgeable about techniques for improving developer operations and are excited by the prospect of enabling other coworkers to do their best work.
Backend software engineering: You love building software systems and optimizing them. You can write backend business logic as needed. You have solid software engineering fundamentals and enjoy thinking about clean software principles, layered abstractions, and complexity tradeoffs.
Business-oriented decision maker: You understand that what you build is meant to support underlying product and business goals. Your technical decision-making is deeply informed by the relevant business context. You know how to navigate questions about speed versus quality.
Designing secure systems: You are comfortable building and managing the complexity of a financial services system with all its high security requirements. You enjoy designing robust systems that will withstand any penetration attempts.
Our Values
Pride in Impact: We take pride in the work we do and the positive difference we make for our users.
Compassionate Action: We’re thoughtful, empathetic, and proactive in our approach to solving problems and working together as a team.
Creative Problem Solving: We believe creativity, curiosity, and resilience are the keys to success in everything we do.
Inclusivity: We champion a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone’s voice is heard and valued.
About Nsave
nsave is a fintech company with offices in London and Geneva, founded by Amer Baroudi and Abdallah AbuHashem. Our mission is to protect and grow the wealth of the financially excluded by offering safeguarded hard currency accounts and an investment platform tailored to individuals in distressed economies. We use compliance-by-design principles and proprietary technology to create a secure and reliable service for people in regions where inflation is high and banking systems are unstable.To date, we’ve raised $22 million in funding from top investors such as Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, and SV Angel, and we’re just getting started. Join us on our journey to build something exceptional!For more information, visit: www.nsave.com
About the Company
nsave provides trusted accounts to people from countries where inflation is high and banking is broken. Experienced in banking, regulatory compliance, and fintech, the nsave team has worked for Morgan Stanley, Revolut, BNY Melon, Checkout.com, Robinhood, and Microsoft. Know more
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