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Backend Product Engineer

London, GBFull-time£54k–£73k2026-09-30 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Build production-grade backend services for payments, core banking, and rewards systems powering Yonder memberships.

Role type

Senior IC backend product engineer (Scala/microservices)

Builds

Event-driven features, distributed microservices, and cloud infrastructure for a fintech membership platform

Domain

Fintech / Core Banking / Payments

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Scala, Kafka, distributed systems, microservices architecture, functional programming, automated testing, cloud infrastructure (GCP/GKE)

Preferred skills

AI coding tools, event-driven architecture, resilience and scalability design

Technologies

Scala, Http4s, Cats Effect, AlloyDB, Kafka, GCP, GKE, Docker, React Native, Next.js

Responsibilities

Develop backend services for payments and rewards; design distributed microservices and APIs; operate production services and cloud infrastructure; collaborate with product and design on feature delivery

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC