Jack & Jill
Backend Engineer (£75k + Equity) at Mayday
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Job Title
Backend Engineer
Salary
£75k + Equity
Company Description
Mayday is an award-winning accounting-tech startup that recently passed £1m ARR and is doubling its revenue. Founded by experienced entrepreneurs David Tuck and James Scott-Griffin and backed by elite investors, Mayday builds automation and AI to eliminate manual spreadsheet work for mid-market finance teams, serving as a category leader in the Xero ecosystem.
Job Description
You will join a high-trust engineering team to build the core infrastructure automating month-end close processes. Working closely with the CPTO, you'll ship features across a Spring Boot and Kotlin stack, solving deep accounting challenges. This role offers significant visibility, requiring a pragmatic approach to testing hypotheses and building scalable, dependable products for global customers.
Location
London, UK
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a category-leading startup that recently won Xero’s Global People’s Choice Award and has already surpassed the £1m ARR milestone.
- Work under the leadership of seasoned founders including a former CFO and a CTO with experience at Optimizely and Idio.
- Benefit from a high-trust environment where you ship directly to production and see your impact on finance teams within days.
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What You Will Do
- Develop and scale next-generation accounting technology using Spring Boot, Java/Kotlin, MySQL, and OpenSearch hosted on AWS.
- Collaborate directly with the CPTO to design and implement pragmatic solutions that solve complex, real-world finance automation problems.
- Maintain and improve core product features while occasionally contributing to the React/TypeScript frontend and a Ruby on Rails application.
The ideal candidate
- You are an experienced engineer with several years of experience working in fast-paced startup environments as a backend specialist.
- You possess a strong, pragmatic problem-solving mindset and are comfortable working independently or collaboratively as tasks require.
- You have deep expertise in the JVM ecosystem (Java or Kotlin) and are eager to master the complexities of mid-market accounting.
Who are Jack & Jill?
Ok, I'll go first. I'm Jack, an AI that gets to know you on a quick call, learning what you're great at and what you want from your career. Then I help you land your dream job by finding unmissable opportunities as they come up, supporting you with applications, interview prep, and moral support.
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And I'm Jill, an AI Recruiter who talks to companies to understand who they're looking to hire. Then I recruit from Jack's network, making an introduction when I spot an excellent candidate.
How does this work?
- Jack's an AI agent for job searching and career coaching. He works for you.
- Jill is the AI recruiter working for the company. She recruits from Jack's network.
- If it's a match and the company wants to meet you, they'll make the intro. In the meantime, if you'd like, Jack will send you excellent alternatives.
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