Remote Backend Jobs

Acting as a Staff IC across a pillar, shaping technical direction and driving delivery across multiple squads

Partnering with senior peers to define architecture and lead complex, high-impact initiatives

Bringing teams together to ship ambitious product work that improves users financial health

Building shared systems, patterns, and tooling that raise the bar across engineering

Staying hands-on in our Ruby on Rails monolith 1 designing APIs, data models, and scalable services

Anticipating risks and opportunities early, influencing plans and technical strategy

Mentoring engineers and TLs, growing the next generation of technical leaders

About you

• You re excited by the opportunity to own and influence technical direction at a pillar level
• You ve operated at senior/staff level across multiple teams or complex domains
• You bring strong technical judgment and think in long-term, scalable solutions
• You re comfortable leading without authority and aligning teams around a shared direction
• You have a track record of building systems and practices used beyond your immediate team
• You enjoy mentoring and raising the bar for others
• You have strong, hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails (essential)
• You're based in the UK or Europe; we hire hybrid & remote in the UK & fully remotely across the EU. We love distributed teams. For this role, we re ideally looking for candidates based within one hour either side of London time, to keep collaboration smooth and calendars sane.