Ebury is an SME-focused cross-border payments platform.
<div class="content-intro"><p>Ebury helps ambitious businesses unlock global growth, and we take the same approach with our people. We encourage innovation and movement, collaboration and problem-solving, and foster an environment where everyone can feel they belong, are valued, supported and empowered to succeed.</p> <p>If you’re a collaborator who wants to help transform how businesses operate globally, get in touch - we’d love to discuss how Ebury can accelerate your career so you can shape the future.</p></div><div id="contentsContainer" class="style-scope qowt-page"> <div id="contents" class="style-scope qowt-page"> <h3 class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0"><strong>Senior API Engineer</strong></h3> <p id="E169" class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0"><strong><span id="E170">Madrid Office - Hybrid: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home</span></strong></p> <p id="E171" class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1"><span id="E172">We are seeking a<strong> S</strong></span><strong><span id="E173"><strong>enior Bac</strong>kend-focused Engineer</span></strong><span id="E174"><strong> </strong>to play a crucial part in our API team. In this role, you will be working on<strong> scaling our main web application</strong> and developing tooling and processes to empower Ebury product teams to ship amazing features efficiently and independently while maintaining a unified, usable experience for our customers.</span></p> <p id="E175" class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1"><span id="E176">We’re looking for the right attitude, work ethic, and entrepreneurial spirit to ask the hard questions. To be informed by data, but be led by a desire to solve our customers' problems. You should learn by default and be ever curious. You should be programming language, framework, and tool agnostic but have strong opinions (weakly held) on the right tool to solve our biggest problems.</span><span id="E178"></span></p> <h3 id="E187" class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0"><span id="E188">Responsibilities:</span></h3> <ul> <li id="E189" class="qowt-li-3_0 qowt-list x-scope qowt-word-para-3"><span id="E190">Contribute to the <strong>development of the next iteration of our platform channels</strong>, collaborating both in the development and delivery of new products but also in the improvement and maintenance of existing ones</span><span id="E191"></span></li> <li id="E192" class="qowt-li-3_0 qowt-list x-scope qowt-word-para-3"><span id="E193">Collaborate with your team members and engineering leaders to design new services and components using our Request For Comments (RFC) process</span></li> <li id="E194" class="qowt-li-3_0 qowt-list x-scope qowt-word-para-3"><span id="E195">In line with our 'You build it, you own it' philosophy, we expect you to take full ownership of the products you build, embracing both their development and ongoing maintenance</span></li> <li id="E196" class="qowt-li-3_0 qowt-list x-scope qowt-word-para-3"><span id="E197">We look for developers that can build and run services. Therefore, you will be comfortable with containerising your code, and adding monitoring and alerting to your services</span></li> <li id="E198" class="qowt-li-3_0 qowt-list x-scope qowt-word-para-3"><span id="E199">Quality is important to us; we expect your code to be testable and well covered with unit and integration tests</span></li> <li class="qowt-li-3_0 qowt-list x-scope qowt-word-para-3"><span id="E201">We use CI/CD pipelines and IaC tools for the deployment of services and infrastructure. From time to time, you might need to contribute to it</span></li> <li class="qowt-li-3_0 qowt-list x-scope qowt-word-para-3"><span id="E203">Mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, collaboration and innovation, while setting an example of culture and performance</span></li> <li class="qowt-li-3_0 qowt-list x-scope qowt-word-para-3"><span id="E205">The position may require being on-call at times</span></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="pageBorders" class="style-scope qowt-page"></div> <div id="contentsContainer" class="style-scope qowt-page"> <div id="contents" class="style-scope qowt-page"> <h3 id="E206" class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1"><span id="E207">About you:</span><span id="E208"></span></h3> <ul> <li id="E209" class="qowt-li-2_0 qowt-list x-scope qowt-word-para-3"><span id="E210">Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)</span></li> <li id="E211" class="qowt-li-2_0 qowt-list x-scope qowt-word-para-3"><span id="E212"><strong>5+ years of software development experience,</strong> with a proven track record of building high-performance, client-facing web applications</span></li> <li id="E213" class="qowt-li-2_0 qowt-list x-scope qowt-word-para-3"><span id="E214">Knowledge of basic algorithms, object-oriented and functional design principles, and best-practice patterns</span></li> <li id="E215" class="qowt-li-2_0 qowt-list x-scope qowt-word-para-3"><span id="E216">Experience with <strong>Python</strong>, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, RestAPIs</span></li> <li class="qowt-li-2_0 qowt-list x-scope qowt-word-para-3"><span id="E218">Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS</span></li> <li id="E219" class="qowt-li-2_0 qowt-list x-scope qowt-word-para-3"><span id="E220">Experience with IAM framework and related tools like Keycloak</span></li> <li id="E221" class="qowt-li-2_0 qowt-list x-scope qowt-word-para-3"><span id="E222">Strong understanding of system architecture, API design, and building scalable services, including incorporating monitoring, alerting, and integrating complex external systems.</span></li> <li id="E223" class="qowt-li-2_0 qowt-list x-scope qowt-word-para-3"><span id="E224">Strong knowledge of Linux systems, cloud infrastructure, networking, and databases</span></li> <li id="E225" class="qowt-li-2_0 qowt-list x-scope qowt-word-para-3"><span id="E226">Proficient understanding of code versioning with Git</span></li> <li id="E227" class