Senior Platform Engineer (Clojure/AWS)
At Kroo Bank, we’re building the future of banking with modern technology and a culture that values innovation, collaboration, and impact. Unlike traditional banks or outsourcing firms, our engineers shape real products used by thousands of customers every day in the UK.
Why join us?
- growing banks in the UK, reaching £1 billion in deposits faster than any of our peers, with 200, 000+ customer accounts and growing every day.
- functional squad where engineers, designers, testers and product managers collaborate as equals.
- life balance.
- driven organisation where your work directly shapes how people bank in the UK.
How you will contribute and key responsibilities:
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be a crucial part of our platform team, directly reporting to a Tech Lead. Your role will involve implementing new platform features, enabling the product engineering teams, and reinforcing the security, scalability and security of the platform. We're looking for individuals who are passionate about coding, eager to learn new technologies, and ready to work in a dynamic Agile environment. Other responsibilities include:
- team collaboration: Proactively work to improve the platform by working with other platform team members, product engineers and tech leads to identify pain points and technical weaknesses.
C and clojure, to facilitate the wider engineering organisation.
- hierarchical structure, valuing talent over job titles.
The following skills and behaviours clearly define what is expected from you to align your efforts with Kroo Bank's goals for this job position. By evaluating performance based on these competencies, both in daily tasks and during annual appraisals, we can identify opportunities for development and also reward outstanding performance.
Requirements
Required technical knowledge:
Production experience of writing clojure services. Excellent understanding of the language, its frameworks, community and core principles. Personal projects in clojure that demonstrate expertise combined with a strong production background in another JVM functional language are also considered.
Building and maintaining production services in AWS (with emphasis on ECS, ALB and RDS), or equivalent services in GCP.
Required skills and behaviours:
Evaluates and selects appropriate technologies for specific use cases, implements complex features using advanced frameworks, and contributes to technology decisions.
Masters a wide range of design patterns, selects the most suitable patterns for specific problems, and coaches team members on pattern usage.
Scopes complex projects, sets realistic expectations for deliverables, and adjusts plans based on evolving project needs.
Manages project timelines, anticipates roadblocks, and guides the team to meet deliverables on schedule.
- considered decisions
Demonstrates strong
- making skills, considers both
- term and
- term implications, and involves the team in major decisions.
Advocates for streamlined processes, introduces best practices, and contributes to the evolution of development methodologies.
Possesses a comprehensive understanding of various technologies, stays current with industry trends, and imparts knowledge to others.
Leads system design efforts, proposes innovative solutions to complex problems, and contributes to shaping the overall system architecture.
About Our Process
We understand that competency is contextual, so throughout the process, we aim to gain an understanding of your experience and, if successful, to provide you with a role reflective of your demonstrated seniority. Our general interview process is as follows, but if your circumstances or timescales require, we can be flexible with its structure:
Please let us know if you have any specific requirements or need assistance so we can be as accommodating as possible for you.
Benefits
At our
- edge fintech company, we know that attracting and retaining the best talent means offering
- notch benefits that help our employees thrive both in and outside of work. Check out what we currently offer:
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-
- line equipment necessary for smooth remote work, including a Mac
Book laptop.
- paced,
- growth
- up, we're dedicated to providing our employees with room to grow and excel.
Diversity and Inclusion:
We wholeheartedly uphold our commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. Every employee is highly regarded, respected, and supported without any form of judgement or prejudice. We consider Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion as fundamental pillars guiding our path in all aspects of our bank. We also ensure that reasonable adjustments are made available to all candidates throughout the recruitment process.
- Informații detaliate despre oferta de muncă
Firma: Kroo Localiția: Bucureşti
Bucharest, Bucharest, RomaniaAdăugat: 31. 10. 2025
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