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Backend Engineer (JVM) - Up to £95k

Few&Far · GB
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ID: #1220
Posted: 2026-03-16
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Backend Engineer (Mid or Senior) 🚀 Series-A FinTech 📍 Hybrid: City of London (3 days per week onsite) 💰 £75,000 – £95,000 + Equity + Benefits Did you know financial fraud costs the UK economy £200bn+ per year, accounting for over 40% of crime in England and Wales? This early-stage FinTech is on a mission to fight financial crime and reduce scams in online payments High-ownership, mission-driven, working with sensitive financial data. This is critical infrastructure. When it fails, real people lose money. What You’ll Do • Build the APIs and UIs banks plug into their payment flows • Connect the investigation engine to messy, real-world data (APIs, documents, scraped sources — most of it unstructured) • Design the orchestration layer that gathers and evaluates evidence across heterogeneous systems • Ship reliable, secure, observable production code • Deploy and iterate on LLM-powered investigation flows (not just prototypes) • Make smart build vs buy decisions and own the trade-offs This isn’t a feature factory. You’ll design, build, ship, own. Tech: Kotlin (open to any JVM background), Python, Terraform, Agentic AI, cloud-native, event-driven services If you’ve built fault-tolerant, distributed systems before, tools matter less than judgement You’ll Have • 3+ years building production distributed systems in a startup environment, using backend languages like Java, Kotlin, Scala, Python, C++, Rust or Go • Experience designing external-facing APIs and working with messy, unstructured data • Shipped AI/ LLM systems beyond proof-of-concept • Startup experience: comfortable in ambiguity, taken high ownership • Strong instincts on trade-offs, speed vs correctness • Computer Science degree or equivalent Why Join? • Work with a highly talented team of 8 other Engineers • Real equity • High-stakes technical challenges • AI X distributed systems X regulated finance If you want to build fast, reliable AI infrastructure that banks depend on, apply with your CV.

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