Senior Software Engineer - Fintech

Senior Software Engineer - Fintech

Madrid  Office - Hybrid: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home

The Role 

The Money Flows Engineering team at Ebury is seeking a Software Engineer to play a crucial part in our team. As part of our diverse team spread across South America and Europe, the successful candidate will be entrusted with the development and optimisation of our multi-currency account systems, incoming funds, and outgoing payment processes. You'll be required to make significant contributions to our platform as we continually aim to bring it to the next level and deliver the best payment experience for our clients and operational teams. 

As a Software Engineer in our team, your technical knowledge and skills will be paramount to our innovation and growth. We value collaboration and commitment, operating within a distributed setup where effective working is key. 

What we offer:

• Variety of meaningful and competitive benefits to meet your needs;
• Competitive salary.;
• You’ll have continuous professional growth thanks to our career progression framework with regular reviews;
• Equity process through a performance bonus; 
• Allowance to take annually paid time off as well as during local public holidays;
• Continued personal development through training and certification;
• Being part of a diverse technology team that cares deeply about culture and best practices, and believes in agile principles;
• Contribute to our technical design through our open and collaborative Request For Comments (RFC) process;
• We are Open Source friendly, following Open Source principles in our internal projects and encouraging contributions to external projects;

Why should I join Ebury?

Want to work in a high-growth environment? We are always growing. Want to build a better world? 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 will find an internal group dedicated to discussing how we can build a more diverse and inclusive workplace for all people in the Technology Team, so if you’re excited about this job opportunity but your background doesn’t match exactly the requirements in the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other positions we have.

Get ready to take your career to the next level:

If there’s something that you can do in our Tech team, it is growing professionally: thanks to our career path and our collaborative and cross-working teams, every day is a new adventure.

Responsibilities: 

• Contribute the development of the next iteration of our Money Flows platform, designed to streamline cross-border payments and the international collection of funds.
• Collaborate with your team members and engineering leaders to design new services and components using our Request For Comments (RFC) process.
• Coach and mentor less experienced team members, positively changing the trajectory of the team to increase the overall effectiveness and efficiency of the team.
• Lead product initiatives from discovery to delivery, working closely with the product and operational teams to ensure everyone is on the same page.

Requirements: 

• You have extensive experience in developing complex software systems. 
• Experience with any of our current tech stack will be considered an advantage: Django, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Kibana.
• Since you will work side by side with colleagues from different countries, you will be able to communicate clearly and concisely your ideas in English both written and spoken.
• As we work closely with Product members, you should be able to collaborate with stakeholders to gather and clarify requirements, ensuring that technical solutions align with business objectives and user needs.
• You are adept at both constructing and managing services. As such, you should have proficiency in establishing standard APIs, incorporating monitoring systems and alerting services, along with a strong expertise in integrating external systems.
• Quality is important to us, we expect your code to be testable and well covered with unit and integration tests. We use CI Jenkins pipelines and terraform for the deployment of services and infrastructure. From time to time, you might need to contribute to it.
• In line with our 'You build it, you own it' philosophy, we expect you to take full ownership of the products you build, embracing both their development and ongoing maintenance.

Even if you don't meet every requirement listed, we encourage you to apply—your skills and experience might be a great fit for this role or future opportunities!

We welcome applications from candidates who require a work permit. For non-EU/EEA nationals, the company may assist with the work permit process, depending on individual circumstances.

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