Backend Engineer
London, UKfull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Builds robust, scalable, and secure financial infrastructure for nsave, a fintech companyServing underserved communities with safe currency accounts and investment platforms.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and own core infrastructure subsystems: service architecture, reliability, CI/CD pipelines, operational health, security, and integrations with compliance and banking services.
- Proactively improve system health and compliance: identify weaknesses in code and infrastructure, prioritize fixes, and deliver solutions that keep systems secure, performant, and regulation-ready.
- Ensure user-facing financial systems are high-throughput, low-latency, and meet reliability expectations.
- Balance rapid product iteration with operational stability—responding quickly to shifting priorities in a dynamic environment.
- Champion a user-centered approach, building infrastructure that directly supports product performance, compliance, and trust.
Qualifications
- Broad platform & infrastructure expertise: backend architecture, databases, site reliability, infrastructure as code, and continuous deployment.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: clean abstractions, scalability, thoughtful trade-offs, and a passion for building and optimizing complex systems.
- Security-first mindset: experience designing and operating robust, financial-grade systems that can withstand penetration attempts.
- Collaborative and supportive: committed to improving developer productivity, enabling teammates to ship quickly and safely, and maintaining the team’s operational health.
- Business-aware decision making: ability to weigh speed vs. quality, with technical choices guided by product and compliance needs.
- Regulated environment experience: familiarity with fintech or other domains where compliance, reliability, and security are critical.
Skills
Required:Backend architectureDatabases and RDS/PostgresAWS (ECS, RDS/Postgres)DockerMessaging with KafkaSecurity best practices
Last updated Mar 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About nsave
Trusted $€£ accounts abroad for people from unstable economies.
nsave is a fintech that provides trusted $€£ accounts abroad for people from countries where inflation is high and banking is broken.
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