Backend Engineer

Description

About Marshmallow:

We're building a smart, digital insurer of the future to help us achieve our mission of helping everyone have equal access to fair financial products. We're a small team backed by investors who have backed Spotify, Monzo, Adyen and others. Following our successful launch earlier this year we are now scaling - FAST.

To build an insurer that can compete with huge multi-billion dollar monsters such as Axa, Allianz, and Direct Line we need customer centric, and awesome customer operations 💪. You'd be joining a team that have worked at billion dollar fintechs such as Transferwise & Monzo, and large insurers such as Zurich.

What you will be doing...

• Collaborating closely with the product team to build customer centric solutions to big problems
• Building scalable, efficient, fault tolerant microservices
• Working on predominantly greenfield projects
• Be involved in a lot of wider discussions and architectural decisions.

Our technology stack

• Java 11 with Spring Boot
• Netflix OSS offerings (Eureka, Feign, Ribbon, Hystrix)
• AWS
• MySQL, DynamoDB
• Protobuf
• CI/CD using technologies such as Docker and Fargate/Kubernetes
• Event Sourcing and CQRS techniques.

You should apply if you have...

• Experience with core Java
• Experience with MVC Frameworks (Spring preferred)
• Experience working with SQL databases, writing custom queries and designing schemas
• A good understanding of test-driven development (TDD) with the desire to write tests
• Experience working with continuous delivery.

We will be even more loved if you have...

• Experience living in a foreign country
• Worked in a startup before
• Often read customer centric books/blogs

Benefits

• Competitive salary 💵
• Stock options 👩‍👩‍👦‍👦
• Working from home 🏠
• Monthly Socials 🎉
• 32 day holiday allowance (inc bank holidays) 🏖️
• Pension 👵🏽
• Cycle to work scheme 🚴‍♂️
• Unlimited books 📚
• Equipment 💻
• Weekly knowledge sharing presentations 💡
• Friday all-hands with snacks 🎥
• Learning and training supported ✍️
• Fruit, snacks and soft drinks in the office 🍓

Logistics

• Our process consists of a phone interview, a coding test and a few hours onsite. We will endeavour to be communicative and transparent throughout :)