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  • Emma - we are hiring!
  • London
  • 1 week ago
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Emma is the app to manage all things money. Ourmission is to empower millions of people to live a better and morefulfilling financial life. Emma was founded by engineers, who areextremely focused on coding, product and data. These are the threepillars on which we want to build a strong tech culture and fixpersonal finance once for all. We have raised more than $8m to dateto build the one stop shop for all your financial life. Ourinvestors include Connect Ventures (investor in Curve, TrueLayerand CityMapper), Kima Ventures, one of the first in Transferwise,and Aglaé Ventures, early stage fund of the Groupe Arnault,investor in Netflix and Airbnb. Alongside them, several angelinvestors, who have built and sold industry leading companies havedecided to take part into this journey. At Emma, we are: BoldDetermined Focused Autonomus Responsibilities You will workdirectly with the CTO and your focus will span different areas,with challenges related to our backend infrastructure, from scalingchallenges to data processing ones. We have an intense roadmapahead, which includes a plethora of new features and integrations,which you will be part of. We are a high-performance team and werun the company like a professional sports team. We expect each andevery team member to move fast, have ownership over their work andhold each other to a high standard. If youre not driven to own yourwork, execute swiftly, and innovate constantly, this isnt the rightplace for you. Our tech stack: Languages: TypeScript, JavascriptLibraries and frameworks: gRPC, Redux, React Native, Next.jsDatastores: Vitess, MySQL, CockroachDB, BigQuery, RedisInfrastructure: Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, PubSub,Terraform Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry, Metabase Some ofour current interests lie in: Product: We are building the 1stFinance App in the UK, used by many people every day. We areshipping an average of a feature per week and tons ofmicro-improvements that compound in making our app valuable.Machine learning: we have an enormous amount of transaction data,which we are using to provide better insights to our users.Predicting when a user is going in overdraft, when a card paymentis coming through or clustering a huge set of subscriptions are afew of the problems we are tackling. Scaling: our services are usedby millions of people. We need to keep Emma up and runningsmoothly. This means an intense effort and quality in the work wedo. ♂️ Speed: In the hyper-competitive FinTech industry what reallymatters is speed. If we had to compare ourselves to someone, welike to think we would be Bolt. About you: You are a softwaredeveloper with at least 2 years professional experience. You areexcited by what were building at Emma. You thrive in environmentsthat afford you high levels of responsibility and autonomy. Youhold yourself and those you work with to high standards. You aredriven to fulfil your potential and grow as an engineer. You takethe initiative to learn new skills required to complete tasks. Youbehave like an owner, taking total responsibility for your work andconsidering the bigger picture. You are results-oriented and avoidunnecessary tasks. You have strong opinions, weakly held, and thehumility to change your mind when presented with new evidence. Tofacilitate communication, productivity and speed, we work from theoffice Monday to Friday. This is not a hybrid role. Please onlyapply if you can certainly meet this requirement. Our process:Take-home test Video call with HR Manager 2nd call with our CTOOnsite interview with our Founders Joining Emma means more thanjust a job; it’s an opportunity to grow, enjoy unique perks, andmaintain a healthy work-life balance: Paid Sick Leave PensionContribution Referral Scheme Emma Ultimate Subscription MacBookAnnual Salary Review ️♀️ Discounted Gym Membership Perks at WorkEye Care Vouchers Cycle to Work Scheme ️ One-month sabbatical every5 years Regular Socials May the gummy bear power be withyou

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