Software Engineer

At Kroo Bank, we are charting the future of banking with our groundbreaking technological innovations and unique digital services. The rapid advancements in the fintech sector necessitate ongoing evolution in the roles and responsibilities of our bank to effectively tackle new business opportunities and challenges. We are dedicated to consistently updating our job descriptions to ensure we continue to lead in banking innovation.

How you will contribute and key responsibilities:  As a Software Engineer, you'll be a valued member of one of our multidisciplinary Product Squads, reporting to a Tech Lead. You'll contribute to the development of new features, support the delivery of our product roadmap, and play an active role throughout the software development lifecycle. We're looking for someone who enjoys solving problems, is passionate about building high quality software, and is eager to learn and develop their technical skills in a collaborative Agile environment. Other responsibilities include: • Contribute to the implementation of new features, working within our Continuous Delivery approach to deliver high quality software. • Collaborate with Product Managers, Product Designers and fellow Engineers within an Agile team, using practices such as Scrum, Kanban and Pair Programming where appropriate. • Participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, from design and development through to testing, deployment and ongoing support. • Write clean, maintainable and well tested code, following engineering best practices and contributing to a high quality codebase. • Work collaboratively in an open, inclusive and supportive engineering culture that values teamwork, transparency and continuous improvement. • Develop and build experience with the technologies used across our platform, including: • Clojure for backend microservices (or another functional or object oriented programming language with a willingness to learn Clojure). • React Native and Redux for mobile application development. • Kafka for asynchronous messaging. • AWS cloud services. • Docker for containerised applications. • Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.

• Demonstrate a willingness to learn new technologies, tools and engineering practices, supported by experienced colleagues. • Develop your understanding of functional programming concepts and modern software engineering principles. • Contribute positively to team discussions, code reviews and knowledge sharing, helping to continuously improve the quality of our products and engineering practices.