[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Kroo Bank Ltd

Role Description

At Kroo Bank, we’re building the future of banking with modern technology and a culture that values innovation, collaboration, and impact. Unlike traditional banks or outsourcing firms, our engineers shape real products used by thousands of customers every day in the UK.

What you’ll do:

• Build and deliver new features end-to-end, from idea to production, in a modern CI/CD environment.
• Work across the stack including backend microservices (Clojure, Kafka, AWS, Postgres) to frontend (React Native, React, NextJs). We offer opportunities to specialise or grow as a full-stack engineer.
• Collaborate daily with product, design, and engineering colleagues to ship customer-facing features in an agile environment based on Kanban and XP practises such as pair programming and test driven development.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, and participate in code reviews.
• Contribute to system design discussions and bring ideas to improve scalability and resilience.
• Keep learning, diving deeper into banking products, functional programming, mobile frameworks, or cloud infrastructure.
• Optionally, contribute back to open source and share knowledge with the wider engineering community.

Qualifications

• Professional experience in backend, web or mobile development.
• Interest in learning Clojure and functional programming.
• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS preferred).
• Familiarity with IaC (Terraform/CDK/Pulumi).
• Good communication skills in English and ability to work effectively in a distributed Agile team.
• A collaborative mindset and passion for building high-quality products.

Requirements

• Expertise in one of any JVM language (Clojure, Java, Kotlin, Scala).
• JavaScript/TypeScript, including; React, React Native, Redux, React Query, NextJs, web accessibility, Storybook.
• Experience working in banking, fintech, or other highly regulated industries — understanding payments, compliance, or financial products is a plus.

Benefits

• 21 days of annual leave.
• Paid National Holidays.
• 1 Kroo bank holiday (June 24th), and 1 day off during the week of your birthday.
• Personal days: We offer 3 personal days to use as needed.
• Mental health support: Access to Spill, our mental health support partner.
• Top-notch equipment: We provide a MacBook laptop for smooth hybrid work.
• Room for growth: Dedicated to providing our employees with room to grow and excel.