Ebury
Staff Engineer (Credit & Underwriting)
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Staff Engineer (Credit & Underwriting)
About Ebury
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.
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.
Rebooting Financial Services
Ebury delivers sophisticated, integrated solutions — business accounts, hedging, and financing — on a single platform with a seamless workflow. Our success is built on a simple premise and singular purpose:
To help businesses operate and scale globally.
Since its founding in 2009, Ebury has always been a fast-growing leader in fintech. Today, we bring together 1,800+ Eburians across nearly 70 cities and we’re always looking to add to our team.
At the heart of our offering is a proprietary platform, purpose-built to help businesses seamlessly streamline and manage global cash flow. We focus on continuous product evolution and innovation, building the infrastructure for borderless growth and helping our clients scale at every stage.
The opportunities at Ebury are as diverse as our people, ranging from business development to engineering roles across our tech pillars.
We believe in inclusion. We stand against discrimination in all forms and are against the intolerance of differences. At Ebury, you can be whoever you want to be and still feel a sense of belonging, no matter your story.
Role: Staff Engineer (Underwriting Team)
Location: London Office – Hybrid: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home
Ebury is seeking exceptional and highly motivated Staff Software Engineers to join their engineering division in London. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact within a leading FinTech firm. As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll be an integral part of the team from your first day, contributing to mission-critical projects and deploying production code within your first week.
About the Role
Ebury is committed to identifying and nurturing future technical leaders; for those who demonstrate exceptional performance and aptitude, we offer a clear, accelerated path for career progression.
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As a Staff Engineer, you’ll work across one or more product squads, collaborating with engineers, product designers, and product managers. You’ll tackle the hardest problems and guide teams to make the smarter trade-offs. You’ll have the opportunity to dive into details while always keeping the big picture in mind. You’ll play a significant role within Engineering leadership, building close relationships with stakeholders across the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across one or more critical domains, owning the design and evolution of large-scale, business-critical systems within our global financial platform.
- Set architectural direction by leading system design, making high-leverage technical decisions, and driving alignment on long-term technology strategy across teams.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to translate business outcomes into scalable, resilient technical solutions, influencing roadmap decisions and trade-offs.
- Operate across the full system lifecycle, from early discovery and architecture through to production operations, including reliability, performance, and cost optimisation.
- Raise the technical bar organisation-wide by defining and evolving engineering standards, guiding design reviews, and mentoring senior engineers to multiply impact beyond your own code.
- Act as a force multiplier by identifying systemic risks, technical debt, and cross-team dependencies early, and driving initiatives that improve velocity, quality, and resilience at scale.
- Champion engineering excellence via strong opinions on testing strategies, CI/CD, observability, and operational readiness, ensuring systems are secure, compliant, and production-grade.
- Lead by example in modern engineering practices, including the responsible use of AI-assisted development tools, while maintaining deep understanding, accountability, and ownership of all solutions produced.
Requirements
Essential Qualifications
- A strong technical foundation in computer science or a closely related discipline, gained through formal education and/or equivalent industry experience, with evidence of continuous learning and technical depth.
- Experience working in fintech or within the financial services industry.
- Extensive experience building and operating production systems at scale. While often aligning with 10+ years in the industry, we value demonstrated impact, sound judgement, and leadership over tenure alone.
- A deep understanding of core computer science concepts—including data structures, algorithms, system design, and complexity trade-offs—and the ability to apply them pragmatically to high-scale problems.
- Proven ability to design, write, and evolve high-quality software in one or more modern programming languages, with a strong focus on maintainability, performance, and operational robustness.
- Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills, able to decompose ambiguous, multi-dimensional problems and drive them to clear, effective technical outcomes.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, able to articulate complex technical ideas clearly, build alignment across teams, and constructively challenge assumptions at all levels.
- A collaborative leadership mindset, with a track record of:
- Mentoring engineers,
- Raising technical standards,
- Contributing positively to engineering culture beyond individual delivery.
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What We Offer
- Highly competitive compensation, including:
- A strong base salary,
- A performance-based bonus,
- Comprehensive benefits,
- Aligned to the impact and scope of a senior technical leadership role.
- A clearly defined Staff / Principal career path, with:
- Transparent expectations,
- Senior-level mentorship,
- Multiple growth vectors, including:
- Technical leadership,
- Architectural ownership,
- Organisational influence.
- The opportunity to work on complex, high-leverage problems at scale, where your decisions directly shape core platforms, customer outcomes, and long-term business performance.
- Meaningful ownership from day one, with:
- Responsibility for critical systems and initiatives, and
- Autonomy to drive improvements across architecture, reliability, and engineering effectiveness.
- A high-performing, inclusive engineering culture within a fast-growing, global FinTech, where:
- Technical excellence, thoughtful decision-making, and constructive challenge are valued and rewarded.
Ebury is an equal opportunity employer. We invite all qualified individuals to apply.
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