Description
About Us
Our sector is being held back by old tech, dismal processes and misaligned interests. Together they create pointless complexity for financial planning and investment professionals, and provide outdated, overpriced experiences for customers. It’s our mission to change all that.
We build technology that helps more people to invest – and invest well. Our engineering allows forward-thinking firms to remove the hassle, lower the cost and improve the overall experience of investing – empowering more people to invest and be treated well.
With our embedded investment engine at their core, companies of all shapes and sizes can launch new investment platforms in record quick time – strengthening their proposition, growing their revenue, lowering their costs and improving their customer experience.
We are part of the Octopus Group – founded in 2000 with a mission to breathe new life into broken industries, Octopus has become one of the most disruptive and progressive companies across the financial services and energy sectors. It now has over 2,500 staff, serves 2.5 million customers and is proud to be a B Corp.
The Role
We're looking for a talented back-end software engineer to design, develop, and implement reliable and scalable software solutions. You'll leverage your expertise in Javascript, Typescript, and Node.js to build new functionality for our application.
This is a hands-on contract role where you'll play a key role in the entire software development lifecycle. We're looking for a team player who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is excited to collaborate on innovative projects.
This is a contract position, and the ideal candidate should have a proven track record of full stack development using TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js , AWS (Lambda , Serverless , SNS , SQS), event-driven architecture .
On A Typical Day You Will Be…
- Work collaboratively in a domain aligned cross-functional squad made up of developers , testers & product along with colleagues from customer & operations .
- Build & implement of range developments .
- Provide hands -on expertise throughout software development (test debug deployment monitoring support).
- Work on software specification documentation .
- Help develop promote appropriate processes best practice always looking better ways working drive scalability .
You’ll Be Successful If You Have…
- Excellent expertise backend development deep understanding TypeScript JavaScript Node .js
- Experience full stack development (Nextjs React .NET all beneficial)
- Experience Amazon Web Services including Lambda SQS SNS knowledge Serverless environments
- Experience working within complex event driven messaging architecture .