Our Mission At Liberis – merchants matter most! We’ve been on a mission to provide small and medium businesses (SMEs) with accessible and responsive finance since 2007. Why & how we do it SMEs account for most businesses worldwide and are critical contributors to job creation and global economic development. They represent about 90% of businesses and more than 50% of employment worldwide. Despite this, more than three quarters (77%) of SME businesses last year were unable to secure the traditional bank financing they desperately needed to grow and thrive. This has created a $5 trillion funding gap for SMEs globally. That’s where Liberis steps in! To best help small businesses, Liberis has built the leading global embedded finance platform. Through this, Liberis provides partners with the technology and financial solutions necessary to offer personalised and accessible funding to their small business customers. To date with ~20 global strategic partners and direct reach to more than 1 million small businesses, Liberis has provided $1 bn of funding in over 50,000 transactions, enabling more than 100,000 jobs to be created and saved. We are making a genuine difference to your local pub, hairdresser and online retailer! Working at Liberis We are in a very exciting period of growth, in the UK and internationally, with teams based in London, Nottingham, Stockholm, Atlanta, Munich and remotely. We are looking for talented and ambitious individuals to help us reshape business finance. How we work is as important to us as what we do – exemplified by our behaviours: #1 Merchants matter most – our success is tied to our merchants' success #2 Act like time is running out – the fastest company in a growing market will win #3 Own every outcome – the hardest problems we face are yet to be solved #4 Communicate directly – we don’t have time to beat around the bush #5 Prove it - every feature we build, decision we make and action we take, matters #6 Empathy always - Liberis wins when every employee thrives We are a company built on constant innovation and development, which makes us exciting to be around. We’re in it together and want to see our customers, partners and colleagues succeed. Come and join us on our journey, and help us transform the finance industry!
Careers at Liberis
Joining our Data Platform Team, you will play an integral part of transforming how we manage and utilise our data as we build our our data platform capabilities in GCP. Our Engineers are encouraged to collaborate and bring their ideas on how we approach projects, with the teams empowered to have autonomy and independence in their roles.
Holding the role of a Senior Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to mentor other members of the Engineering team - supporting us to continually develop and push the boundaries of what scaling, multi-product FinTech organisation can achieve.
Who are you?
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You are a Software or Data Engineer with proven experience developing software to solve complex and ambiguous business problems. You enjoy the whole software development lifecycle, from ideation, to building, maintenance, collecting feedback and continuous improvement.
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You are fascinated about working in the context of a platform team, understanding deeply how other engineering teams in the organisation deploy data products, and making it easier for them to do so.
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You’re collaborative, action driven, and tend towards delivering software early and then improving iteratively, proactively working with your users to anticipate their needs. You do this while defending the quality, security and performance requirements of the platform that you’re working on.
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You are comfortable making trade-offs for speed of delivery, quality, and extensibility, while articulating what those choices are and why they’ve been made to people both within and outside of engineering
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You know how to contribute and collaborate as part of a high performing team. You optimise for team performance over individual performance. You mentor other engineers, teaching them in your areas of expertise and support them to deliver at a faster pace.
The interview process
- Screening call with Chess (Internal Recruiter, Online)
- Technical interview task with a member of Engineering (Online)
- System Design task with two members of the engineering team (In Person, approx 1hr)
- Experience and interview with the Hiring Manager & our VP of Engineering (In Person, approx 1hr)
What we think you'll need:
- Proven experience with at least one modern programming language, preferably Python, C#, Java, or Javascript/Typescript
- Proficiency with the SQL family of query languages, and relational databases, such as MS-SQL, PostgreSQL, or BigQuery, alongside a great understanding of data warehouse design principles/best practices
- Experience with Test Driven Development
- Experience building and iterating on ETL or ELT data pipelines
N.B - there is an ‘on-call’ element to this role, which Chess will outline at the screening stage
Next steps If this opportunity feels like the right fit for your next career move, we’d love to hear from you!
Even if you don’t meet every requirement, don’t hesitate to apply or reach out to Chess (Internal Recruiter) on chess.crossley@liberis.com
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