Senior Full Stack Engineer

\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout 9fin\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eThe world's largest asset class, debt, operates with the worst data. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eTechnology has revolutionized equity markets with electronic trading, quant algos and instantaneous news. However, in debt capital markets, the picture is completely different. It still behaves like it’s in the 1980s; trillions of dollars of trades are placed over the phone, news is slow, and corporate credit information is imperfect and scattered. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eOur mission is to change this. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e9fin's proprietary technology delivers fast and comprehensive financial, credit, legal \u0026amp; ESG analysis. Our clients are able to make faster, more informed decisions, win more business and most importantly, save time.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eOur fast growing list of clients include 9 of the top 10 Investment Banks, leading Asset Managers, Hedge Funds and Law Firms.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWhat you’ll work on\u003c/h2\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eAs a senior full-stack engineer on the \u003cstrong\u003eOnboarding \u0026amp; Activation\u003c/strong\u003e team, you will be focused on revolutionizing the initial user experience at 9fin to drive significant growth and revenue. We're directly addressing the challenge of transforming our trial conversion rate, by ensuring new users immediately grasp the immense value of our global, multi-product platform. This involves deeply understanding varied user journeys, streamlining complex onboarding processes, and enhancing feature adoption so that our powerful platform becomes instantly intuitive and valuable for time-pressed financial professionals in the fixed income industry worldwide.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eEvery day is different, but here’s an example of the kind of things you’ll work on day to day:\t\t\t\t\t\u003c/p\u003e\u003cul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eIdeate and lead full-stack end to end software delivery and analysis of high impact user facing experiments and functionality to incrementally solve these user pain points, whilst taking ownership of the product outcomes.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eRelease code into front and backend production environments continuously, using techniques such as feature flags to safely release incrementally to users.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eCraft code that meets high quality standards for style, maintainability, and best practices. Maintain and advocate for these standards throughout the engineering org through collaboration with other engineers and code review.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eLead the technical design and build of your new experiments, functionality or systems by creating short proof of concepts to get fast and actionable feedback before deciding on the next steps.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eShare and contribute to the product vision to focus on allowing 9fin’s platform to scale with our company ambition.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eBegin to proactively uncover user pain points through user interviews, journey mapping, competitor analysis, focus groups and data analysis.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003cul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eYou will also play a part in mentoring other developers including more junior colleagues to impart knowledge and build their skills.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eWrite high quality documentation and implement user \u0026amp; system metrics and observability as you go to continually learn, assess and improve 9fin’s platforms and products.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003cstrong\u003eOur Tech Stack\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eReact via Typescript \u0026amp; Vite\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eReact query\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eJest, React Testing Library, Playwright\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eProduction workloads on AWS using ECS \u0026 lambda serverless functions \u0026amp; event based architectures.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eTyped Python for APIs \u0026amp; Data.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eFlask \u0026amp; FastAPI\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eWe 💙Postgres!\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003h2\u003eAbout You\u003c/h2\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eThis role will be a great fit if you:\u003c/p\u003e\u003cul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eYou have the full stack software engineering experience to allow you to design and implement functionality and software end to end within our stack.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eA highly analytical technologist, who prioritises user experience and is experienced in translating user needs into software improvements.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eAre someone who has a product mindset, and would love the chance to work with the rest of the team to collectively make product decisions and build a product that solves user needs and create a product they love having as part of their workflow.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eA strong communicator, who can present to team members and stakeholders (technical and non-technical) how you \u0026amp; your team’s ideas will improve our user’s experience on the platform as well as the wider technical advantages and tradeoffs of your solution.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eYou know how to use use user data and metrics extensively to measure the success of new software changes and functionality against team KPIs as well as identify and prioritise impactful outcomes. \u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eCollaborates well with business colleagues, other engineers, UX Designers and Product managers to collectively lead product innovation achieved via fast delivery and frequent feedback iterations.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eGrows the skills and experience of others in the team in collaboration with our engineering managers using your technical knowledge, experience and team work.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eProactively identified tech debt and developer experience improvements and champions frontend technical improvements and initiatives within your team and across multiple teams with the guilds.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eCan effectively advocate for software development best practices, including documentation, testing, code readability, and efficiency, in order to positively influence. team outcomes and promote a culture of excellence within the development process.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eCapable of evaluating new technologies by presenting proof-of-concepts that highlight their advantages and disadvantages and how they can be applied in a real world scenario at 9fin.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eOur benefits\u003c/h2\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eWe’re a scaling start up and we enjoy sharing our success, when the company succeeds, we always reinvest that in our people. We also offer huge amounts of responsibility, an abundance of opportunity for growth and a platform to truly excel.\u003c/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003cstrong\u003eFinancial \u0026amp; Insurance\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eCompetitive Salary(our salary bands are benchmarked at the top end of the market)\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003ePension (your minimum contributions are 4% with 9fin matching up to 7%)\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003ePrivate Medical Insurance \u0026amp; Dental Insurance\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003ePaid sick leave with Income Protection for long periods of illness\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eGroup Life Assurance\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eSeason Ticket Loan \u0026amp; Cycle to Work schemes\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTime off\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e25 holiday days per year\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eLocal public holidays (with the ability to exchange them for alternative days)\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eHybrid working model, to allow you the flexibility to decide how, where and when you do your best work\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eWork abroad for up to 3 months a year\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eEnhanced parental leave \u0026amp; flexible working arrangements available\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTraining \u0026amp; Culture\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eProfessional learning and development budget\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eQuarterly team socials\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eBi-annual engineering hackathons\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eSummer and Winter company social events\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eTravel \u0026amp; accommodation budget for social attendance if living far from London\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003e9fin is an equal opportunities employer\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"\u003eAt 9fin we are dedicated to building and promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can reach their full potential and truly belong. We recognize that building diverse teams enables a more creative and productive environment. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be who we’re looking for — either for this role, or perhaps another.\u003c/p\u003e