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Senior Backend Engineer
Senior Backend Engineer
Why We Exist
Economic incentives, environmental pressures, and regulatory shifts are driving a global move toward the circular economy. Consumers and businesses are shifting towards flexible, affordable access models away from rigid ownership.
The $1.5 trillion electronic device market remains largely untapped in this paradigm. Raylo bridges this gap with subscription infrastructure for leading electronics brands, enabling them to adopt circular models that are simple and cost-effective.
What We’ve Built
- Powers circular economy shift for electronics with £70m ARR, profitability, and 200,000+ active subscriptions. -Customers experience seamless journeys: subscribe, upgrade, and return devices—all while brands manage financing without relying on their own balance sheet.
- Raylo.com：Global marketplace for consumers and businesses.
- Raylo Pay：Embedded system enabling brands like PlayStation and LG to launch subscriptions under their own DTC/ecommerce channels.
Impact includes:
- 50% emissions reduction per device compared to traditional buy-and-discard models.
- B Corp certified, backed by Macquarie, NatWest, and Channel 4 Ventures, and recognised by Tech Nation’s Future Fifty.
How We Work
Science meets ambition at Raylo. We build proprietary tech that combines AI, orchestration, and operational expertise in areas like:
- Credit/fraud decisioning
- Lifecycle operations
- Logistics and refurbishment
- Pricing and resale
Core work ethos:
- AI-powered progress: Rebuild processes from scratch, assuming no constraints. Expect faster cycles, teams replacing spreadsheets with tools, and instant answers for complex queries.
- Human judgement matters: AI returns time to conversations and artisan craft, sharpening team judgement.
- High bar for hires: Cultivate growth through high-energy collaboration, ensuring accountability and gratitude.
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Core Values: ✨ Be deeply curious: Diverse perspectives sharpen abilities. 👟 Walk in your customer’s shoes: Translate ‘wants’ into actionable needs. 🎯 Focus and execute: Big vision requires disciplined prioritisation. 💥 Be gritty: Own challenges with passion and endurance.
Your Team
We’re strengthening a Senior Backend Engineer role—joining a collaborative, ambitious team spearheading backend systems for growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable backend systems supporting customers' lifecycles and internal systems (e.g., supply chain, operations).
- Collaborate cross-functionally to meet the business’s evolving scale and complexity.
- Ship ownership: develop, deploy, and iterate as a core practice—not a step aside.
- Join in product strategy, tech design discussions, code reviews, and mentoring.
- Participate in incident response and production problem-solving rotations.
What You Will Bring
- 5+ years of hands-on expertize with Ruby on Rails in production environments.
- Proven ability to build and quickly scale backend systems, ideal for high-growth startups or scale-ups.
- Experience leading multi-stakeholder/engineer projects.
- Bonus: Experience with GraphQL.
- Mindset emphasis: Collaborative, deeply product-centric—focused less on technical nuance, more on authentic problem-solving.
- Clarity and curiosity: Integrate into ambiguity, translate complex information, and actively up-level in skill.
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Opportunities & Benefits
Raylo continuously aligns offerings with employee voices via quarterly surveys. Benefits include:
📱 Exclusive employee lease or purchase of Raylo devices. 📈 Stock options for all. 🏥 Comprehensive private medical insurance. 📚 Learning and development (L&D) budget tailored to your ambitions. 🏢 Flexible hybrid working model. 🌴 33 days annual leave (25 days + 8 public holidays—used flexibly). 👶 Enhanced parental leave after 12 months: maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave. 🧸 Workplace nursery scheme reducing childcare costs.
Hiring Process
Your journey begins with a 15-minute introductory chat (no prep).
** transparent and timely**:
Stage-by-stage clarity: Each step is structured to evaluate fit and suitability. Support adjustments or accommodations—just ask.
As an FCA-regulated business, successful candidates will undergo background screening (DBS and AML).
Diversity & Inclusion
Raylo celebrates diversity of thought, backgrounds, and perspectives. Every voice matters—it’s core to energising inclusion and strength.
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