Senior Software Engineer

Runa·Runa Londonsenior

In short

→Ingeniero de software senior que diseña e implementa servicios escalables en una infraestructura serverless de AWS.
→Trabajas con tecnologías modernas como Python, TypeScript, Lambda, Step Functions y bases de datos como Aurora, DynamoDB y Redis.
→Destaca el impacto global: tus servicios permiten pagos instantáneos a 5 mil millones de personas en 190 países.

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What they ask for

✓Experiencia sólida en arquitectura y desarrollo de servicios desde cero.
✓Capacidad para tomar propiedad total del diseño, implementación y despliegue de sistemas a gran escala.
✓Habilidad para guiar y mentorizar a ingenieros más junior.
✓Pasión por las buenas prácticas de ingeniería de software.
✓Experiencia con APIs y arquitecturas orientadas a eventos.
✓Capacidad para mejorar el rendimiento y escalabilidad de servicios.

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PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptAWS LambdaStep FunctionsAurora (Postgres)DynamoDBMemoryDB (Redis)TimestreamAWS Serverless

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Runa is pioneering a first-of-its-kind payment rail that enables the seamless, global money movement at scale. Legacy banking and payment infrastructure struggles to support the demands of today's low-volume, high-velocity payouts, leading to inefficiencies in global payouts. Businesses worldwide send over $20 trillion annually in rewards, remittances, and disbursements often incurring costs of up to 50% per transaction and subjecting recipients to lengthy delays. Runa transforms this landscape by providing a new digital payments infrastructure that empowers businesses to send digital money instantly and cost-free to anyone, anywhere. The Runa API empowers thousands of businesses to make payments to 5 billion+ consumers in 190+ countries instantly to cards, wallets, bank accounts and gift cards. Leading companies such as Sodexo, TopCashback, Perkbox, Sweatcoin, Coinbase, and Globetopper rely on Runa to facilitate instant, flexible global payouts to tens of millions of consumers. The Role As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, implementing and deploying software services from end to end. You’ll produce clean, scalable, and reusable code to build products which will have a big impact on our customers. You will have the opportunity to work with a modern stack and serverless cloud infrastructure whilst guiding and mentoring more junior engineers in the team. Tech We have Python, TypeScript, and Javascript services running mostly on Lambda functions. We use Step Functions extensively to orchestrate our workflows. Our persistence layer is largely Aurora (Postgres), DynamoDB, MemoryDB (Redis), and Timestream. However, we understand the dynamic nature of technology and recognize that skills in any programming language is a valuable asset, which is why we are open to engineers from any programming background. What Excites You Contributing towards the design, delivery and deployment of large scale, complex projects which are used heavily by thousands of people with high throughput. Using modern technology like AWS serverless infrastructure and events driven microservice architecture Mentoring more junior members of the team to help support their growth and development and help scale the team by leading on technical interviews. Being a subject matter expert on technology and domain-specific problems, and taking ownership of software services from end to end. Improving responsiveness and overall performance of our web services. What Excites Us Solid experience as a Software Engineer architecting and developing new services and features from end to end. The ability to take ownership of design and architecture of large scale systems and developing API heavy software solutions without the need for guidance. A passion for promoting software engineering best practice, guiding and mentoring more junior engineers to deliver clean, scalable, and reusable code. Proactively contributing to the continual improvement of our engineering processes Even if you do not meet all of the above requirements but still think you would be a good fit for the role we would still encourage you to apply. What’s in it for you 🏢 We have a hybrid structure with the requirement of 3 days a week at our London Office (Shoreditch) 📚£1,000 annual L&D allowance to invest in mastering your craft, including accredited studies. Plus 5 L&D days per year 🌴 25 days holiday + public holidays 🔋 Runa Reset Days - Runa closes on the first Friday of each quarter for a well-deserved, Reset Day ☀️ Summer Hours - In the month of August, we log off at 3pm on Fridays.

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