Backend Engineer

As a Backend Engineer at Moneyhub, you will be responsible for stabilizing, scaling, and evolving our event-driven architecture, replacing a key senior figure and taking ownership of high-throughput microservices and the underlying infrastructure that powers our financial data processing. You will develop and optimize Node.js microservices, manage Kafka implementation, and maintain and optimize our data layer, specifically working with PostgreSQL. You will also oversee the engineering and deployment of services across AWS and GCP via Kubernetes, identify bottlenecks in the current architecture, and propose/execute long-term structural improvements.

Requirements

• Mission for the Role
• Core Responsibilities
• Success Profile: The First 9 Months
• Essential Experience
• Helpful but Not Essential

Benefits

• 5% company contribution towards your Pension from your very first day with us
• 25 days of holiday (plus bank hols), rising to 30 days after two years
• Choose to take your entitlement to UK bank holidays at other times based on your own days of significance
• Private medical insurance, including cover for pre-existing conditions, plus dental and optical benefit
• 3 Months Moneyhubber Family Pay when you become a new parent
• Permanent health insurance and life cover - much greater than the industry standard (death in service)
• Employee assistance programme
• Professional development support, with dedicated allowance of time and money
• Life event leave
• Cycle to work scheme
• EV Car Scheme
• £750 towards professional memberships
• Remote working benefits, including work from almost anywhere, access to co-working spaces and support for your home office set-up
• High spec laptop
• Holiday purchase