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About the Role
Investa is seeking a driven Software Engineer to join its founding engineering team. This role offers end-to-end ownership of core platform features, opportunities to work across the full stack, and a chance to grow technical depth in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. The ideal candidate is passionate about building best-in-class financial products.
Responsibilities
- Designing, building, and maintaining robust, scalable services as part of the founding team.
- Taking end-to-end ownership of work, seeing code ship, and observing its impact on users.
- Actively contributing to building the engineering culture, including collaboration and learning practices.
- Writing high-quality, secure code for an FCA-regulated platform.
- Navigating the tech stack to ship user-delighting features.
- Gaining hands-on experience with the wider technical stack to accelerate skill development.
- Partnering with the engineering team on complex systems design and shaping the evolving architecture.
- Having a strong voice in high-level design choices and design ownership over built services and components.
- Maintaining a high bar for code quality, testing, and documentation.
- Participating in and contributing to meaningful code reviews.
- Monitoring and improving system reliability to ensure platform uptime.
- Root-causing real-time production issues and ensuring system stability.
Requirements
- +3 years of commercial software engineering experience.
- Experience building or maintaining distributed systems or backend APIs is ideal.
- Strong practitioner who loves shipping clean, readable code and takes pride in seeing features go live.
- Proficient in at least one modern language (e.g., Python, TypeScript, Java, Go).
- Comfortable working within cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Understanding the balance between elegant code and delivering real value in a fast-moving startup.
- Enjoying dissecting system workings and quickly picking up domain concepts like options pricing, execution mechanics, and financial regulations.
- Willingness to participate in supporting production applications, including responding to critical system events outside of working hours.
Skills
- Software Engineering
- Distributed Systems
- Backend APIs
- Clean Code
- Shipping Features
- Modern Languages (Python, TypeScript, Java, Go)
- Cloud Environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Systems Design
- Architecture
- Code Quality
- Testing
- Documentation
- Code Reviews
- System Reliability
- Production Support
- Problem Solving
Location
- Temple, London
Work Type
- Hybrid (3 days/week in office)
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- £60,000 - £85,000 per annum
Benefits
- Meaningful company EMI equity
- Competitive base salaries
- Private medical insurance
- Private dental insurance
- 30 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
- Birthday off
- High-spec MacBook Pro
- £150 toward a mouse and keyboard of choice
- Team socials chosen by you
- Milestone celebrations
- Hybrid flexibility
- Tea, coffee, and snacks daily
- Monthly Team Lunch (menu chosen by team)
- Access to a private gym
- Access to a rooftop terrace
About the Company
- Investa is building the UK’s first zero-commission Options and Stocks trading platform, aiming to provide a streamlined alternative to legacy platforms with high fees and complex interfaces.
- The company has raised £3.5 million in funding, secured FCA regulatory approval, and won awards for Best Options Trading App and Best App for Options Trading.
- Investa's app is live on iOS with 1,500 users and plans to launch on Android soon, targeting 10,000 users and beyond.
- Investa operates as a lean, agile team where employees have high autonomy and directly shape the business.
- Core values include being Collaborative, Curious, and Creative.
- The company prioritizes innovation through speed, agility, thinking outside the box, and resource-efficient solutions.