Funding Circle brings together small businesses and investors in a way that is truly revolutionary. We're here
to foster an environment where small business can thrive. Our online
platform provides a marketplace where investors receive better returns
and small businesses find lower rates. The driving force behind our
product is our engineering team; we are building elegant, sustainable,
and scalable infrastructure on a global scale, and we want you to be a
part of it!
Our mission: to build a better financial world.
Prospectus:
Would
you describe yourself as a creative and ambitious engineer who’s always
ready to take on the next cutting edge technology? If your answer is
yes, you’re going to fit right in with our global team. We’re looking
for an experienced and enthusiastic Clojure Engineer who will bring
elegance and simplicity to the forefront of our distributed systems. We
are a group of passionate engineers whose bread and butter is learning
new technologies and fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment
- we’re looking for partners in crime who feel the same.
Bird’s eye view of the role:
Be
an automator: we are continually reevaluating our stack to improve
efficiency throughout the pipeline. We practice continuous integration
and have a container-based deployment workflow.
Be
a builder: you’ll build and expand our highly-available architecture to
handle over $2 billion in loans originated through our pipeline.
Be a collector: you’ll help build scalable infrastructure to collect data for real time analytics and risk modeling.
Be
a collaborator: you’ll be expected to forge deep bonds with your
business counterparts to truly understand the needs of our Borrowers and
Investors. We work in an Agile environment including pair programming
and daily stand-ups.
Be a teacher: be
generous with your time and expertise to teach stakeholders and our
fellow engineers how to answer their own questions with tools you build.
Our ideal teammate has:
professional experience working with Clojure (or really strong personal projects using Clojure).
Significant engineering experience in any language (Ruby, Python, Java, etc).
an interest in Functional Programming languages.
comfortable in a Unix/Linux environment.
Bonus points for:
Github or other open source code we can check out.
distributed systems experience.
experience with microservices and/or event-driven architecture.
operating at scale with low-latency systems.
- familiarity with Docker, Mesos, and/or experience with distributed database systems, such as Cassandra.
MUST HAVE ELIGIBILITY TO WORK IN THE UK
