Ebury is a leading global fintech company that empowers businesses to trade and grow internationally. It offers a comprehensive suite of products, including international payments and collections, FX risk management, trade finance, and API integrations. Founded in 2009 by Juan Lobato and Salvador García, Ebury is one of the fastest-growing global fintechs, with over 1,700 employees and 38 offices in more than 25 countries.
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:
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Discretionary bonus based on performance
- Continued personal development through training and certification
- We are Open Source friendly, following Open Source principles in our internal projects and encouraging contributions to external projects
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.
About you:
- 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.
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 anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other positions we have.
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About Us
Ebury is a FinTech success story, positioned among the fastest-growing international companies in its sector.
Founded in 2009, we are headquartered in London and have more than 1700 staff with a presence in more than 25 countries worldwide. Cultural diversity is part of what makes Ebury a special place to be. From Sao Paulo to Dubai, Bucharest to Toronto, we enjoy sharing team experiences and celebrating success across the Ebury family.
Hard work pays off: in 2019, Ebury received a £350 million investment from Banco Santander and has won internationally recognised awards including Financial Times: 1000 Europe's Fastest-Growing Companies.
None of this would have been possible without our proudest achievement: our great people. Enthusiastic, innovative and collaborative teams, always ready to disrupt and revolutionise the fast-paced FinTech sector.
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 can be whoever you want to be and still feel a sense of belonging no matter your story because we want you and your uniqueness to help write our future.
Please submit your application on the careers website directly, uploading your CV / resume in English.
What We Do
About Ebury®
Ebury is a Fintech company specialised in international payments, collections, and foreign exchange services. It offers financial solutions aimed mainly at SMEs and midcaps. Ebury offers foreign exchange activity in over 130 currencies - for both major and emerging markets - as well as cash management strategies, trade finance, and foreign exchange risk management.
Founded in London in 2009 by Spanish engineers Juan Lobato and Salvador García, the company has grown its global market presence to a network of 31 offices in 21 countries and more than 1,300 employees.
Throughout its history, the company has received more than 20 international awards, including the Financial Times 1000 Europe's fastest-growing companies 2020 and The Sunday Times Tech Track 100. All these recognitions place Ebury as one of the leading European financial technology companies.
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