Senior Backend Engineer

9fin

About 9fin 9fin is the AI platform powering global debt markets — the world’s largest asset class at over $145 trillion. Debt markets are vast, global, and mission-critical, yet still run on fragmented data, PDFs, and manual workflows. 9fin replaces this broken infrastructure with a single platform that centralises proprietary credit data, deep analysis, and high-value workflows across global markets. Today, 9fin powers teams at 300+ blue-chip institutions worldwide, including global banks, asset managers, private equity firms, law firms, and advisors. The business is scaling at exceptional speed, with rapid expansion in the US and best-in-class retention driven by deep workflow adoption. We’re at a defining inflection point. With proven product-market fit and strong, global market pull, 9fin is accelerating toward becoming the category-defining platform for debt markets worldwide. What you'll work on The team maintains a strong focus on impact, using technology to deliver value for the business. While we have a high-level vision from the business, we have autonomy to set our team goals and define our own success. We take responsibility for our outcomes and emphasize proactive behaviours like ownership and accountability. * As part of a cross functional team, lead projects by defining and designing systems, building proof of concepts, and delivering new service functionality - including APIs, data processing and automation - while collaborating with Product and Clients * Development and engineering primarily on the backend services and web application hosted tools and systems of the 9fin platform. * Play an impactful role within project teams as a senior IC, running code reviews, mentoring other developers, leadership & involvement in early research and experimentation with new technologies providing input for new features and products. * Continually improve the 9fin codebase taking the chance to automate, refactor and document when it’s most impactful.. * Very diverse web platforms, from complex financial data modelling, complex access control business logic, capturing environmental, emission, energy data, incorporation of ML/AI prediction services, data visualisation serving and automation systems. * Collaboration and teamwork: Cross functional teams are formed for all projects including the appropriate domain expertise from 9fin financial, legal and editorial colleagues. This allows the best quality information and feedback to go directly to engineering project teams. Your ability to explain and break down complex projects to non technical audiences will enable productive and efficient team progress. * Developer Experience: Through managed automated preview environments, feature flags and well maintained non production environments. You will be able to move with velocity and get feedback and iterate quickly. Our Backend Stack * Python is the dominant backend language used * Flask & FastAPI * Typing is used within our Python stack to power automated documentation and API definitions * Relational Databases (PostgreSQL) at the heart of majority of services * We have our own internal developer platform with standardised paved road approaches to infrastructure to bring your code into production as quickly as possible. * We’re AWS for Cloud hosted services * Heavy use of AWS lambda Serverless * Docker (AWS ECS) for uniform development/deployment from dev to prod Requirements This role will be a great fit if you: * Have experience operating as a Senior IC Engineer, leading systems design and infrastructure discussions, mentoring more junior team members, and scoping work within cross-functional product teams. * Plan and reason about software effectively, clearly and compellingly communicating its purpose within systems and its business impact on clients * Have hands-on experience designing data flow through software, from persistent storage to API endpoints, while applying industry best practices for validation * Experience with Python and its web frameworks (we currently use FastAPI with strong typing & Pydantic) * Strong experience delivering APIs, Service Oriented Architecture * Strong working knowledge of SQL statements for retrieving data * A good collaborator and communicator with cross functional engineering teammates and others within 9fin * Code Quality: Through writing testable, maintainable code, and by engaging in code review for your own work and for reviewing others Nice-to-have: * Experience in data modelling and with a pipeline orchestrator Benefits We’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. Financial & Insurance * Competitive Salary (our salary bands are benchmarked at the top end of the market) * Equity options * Pension (your minimum contributions are 4% with 9fin matching up to 7%) * Private Medical Insurance * Paid sick leave with Income Protection for long periods of illness * Group Life Assurance * Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes Time off * 25 holiday days per year * Local public holidays (with the ability to exchange them for alternative days) * Hybrid working model, to allow you the flexibility to decide how, where and when you do your best work * Work abroad for up to 3 months a year * 1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service * Enhanced parental leave & flexible working arrangements available Training & Culture * Professional learning and development budget * Quarterly team socials * Summer and Winter company social events 9fin is an equal opportunities employer At 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.

CarbonChain

ABOUT CARBONCHAIN Want to work on the most pressing challenge of our generation? If you have experience building exceptional products, know how to execute at scale, and want to help build a company for the long term, we'd love to hear from you. CarbonChain helps the world’s biggest supply chains measure and reduce their carbon emissions, using verified primary data where possible, and robust defaults where it isn’t. We build software that turns messy, real-world operational and supplier information into decision-grade carbon and compliance insights, so teams can act: improve sourcing, meet regulations like CBAM, and deliver credible reporting to customers, investors, and regulators. We’re a product-led company operating in a high-stakes domain. Data quality, auditability, reliability, and trust matter as much as speed. If you enjoy building systems that customers rely on, and shipping improvements that measurably change behaviour across a network, you’ll feel at home here. OUR PRODUCT Our platform combines real-world emissions data with our customers' supply chain information to create actionable insights. We help sustainability teams answer critical questions: Where are the emissions hotspots in our supply chain? Which suppliers should we prioritize? What's the carbon impact of switching vendors or routes? A major focus of what we’re building right now is supplier engagement and CBAM data management: * enabling installations (goods producers) to prepare, manage, and share CBAM datasets through guided product carbon accounting workflows; * improving our supplier database and connection management to support sharing across supply chains; * and building ingestion pipelines that turn messy customer files into structured, provenance-tracked, insights-ready data. Beyond CBAM, our platform supports product and corporate carbon footprinting used by some of the world’s largest commodities producers and traders, helping teams move from data collection to credible reporting and decision-making ABOUT THE ROLE We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to build robust, scalable systems that power our product. This is a high-impact individual contributor role where you'll own meaningful projects and directly influence how our engineering team works. You'll focus on shipping well-crafted backend systems while collaborating closely with the team to deliver features that solve real customer problems. We value engineers who take initiative, care about the details, and aren't afraid to venture beyond their primary domain when needed. WHAT YOU'LL DO * Design and build backend systems that handle complex carbon data workflows and integrations * Own features from technical design through deployment - you'll drive your projects forward with autonomy * Write clean, maintainable code and establish patterns that other engineers can follow * Collaborate with Product Managers and designers to translate product requirements into technical solutions * Contribute to architectural decisions and help shape our technical standards * Occasionally jump into frontend work when needed - we value versatility and believe the best solutions come from understanding the full picture * Participate in code reviews and help maintain high engineering standards across the team WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR * 5+ years building complex software systems across the full development lifecycle * Strong backend engineering skills with experience building modern web applications * Deep knowledge of Python and familiarity with frontend technologies like TypeScript * Hands-on experience with relational databases, job queues, and asynchronous processing * Knowledge of IaC/Terraform and modern CI/CD practices * Strong collaboration skills—you work closely with Product to ideate features, advise on trade-offs, and iterate on what we've built * A product-minded approach: you understand why you're building something, not just how * Bonus: startup or SaaS experience * Bonus: experience with data-intensive systems or climate/sustainability tech   WHAT WE OFFER Meaningful impact and accelerated growth This is a rare opportunity to work on technology that directly addresses the climate crisis while shaping the future of a fast-growing company. You'll have significant influence over our technical direction and product strategy - the kind of impact that typically takes decades to achieve elsewhere. You'll tackle diverse challenges, work across the full stack of problems (technical and otherwise), and own meaningful projects from start to finish. If you want to learn quickly, take on real responsibility, and see the direct results of your work, this is the place to do it. Competitive salary and benefits: * 28 days annual leave * £500 home office setup allowance * £2,000 annual learning allowance * Private healthcare * Generous parental leave policy * Weekly team lunches in the office * Office gym, and cycle to work scheme CarbonChain values diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds.  If you think your skills and experience match what we’re looking for and you’d like to join the next Climate Tech industry unicorn, please get in touch! You can find out more about interviewing at CarbonChain at https://www.carbonchain.com/careers/interview-process.

Elliptic

Do you want to be part of the future of value transfer? Are you excited about solving problems that have never been solved before? Are you looking for a values led company, which cares about the growth of its employees? Elliptic's Real-time Risk team builds the engine that powers how our customers screen, monitor, and act on blockchain risk. We own the data pipelines, scoring infrastructure, and continuous monitoring systems that keep compliance teams ahead of financial crime, in real time, at enterprise scale. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us tackle the most technically demanding problems on the platform, working closely with data engineering counterparts to deliver capabilities that give customers a truly personalised, insight-rich view of the blockchain. The impact you will have: As a Senior Software Engineer on the Real-time Risk team, you will help shape the technical direction of a complex, high-stakes system. You'll work on world-class sanctions reporting, contribute to scaling the platform to serve Elliptic's rapidly growing customer base, and partner closely with data engineering counterparts to bring unique, customer-specific insights to life. This is a role for an engineer who wants to go deep, who can hold the complexity of distributed systems in their head, and who takes pride in building things that are both correct and fast. What you will do: * Design and build robust, high-throughput backend services supporting real-time risk scoring, screening, and continuous monitoring workflows. * Work closely with data engineering teammates to deliver personalised intelligence to our customers, enabling unique, customer-specific views of the blockchain. * Contribute to world-class sanctions reporting infrastructure that compliance teams and regulators depend on. * Help scale the system to support Elliptic's growing enterprise customer base, identifying and resolving performance and reliability bottlenecks. * Take ownership of technically complex areas, driving architecture and implementation decisions with sound trade-off reasoning. * Review code, raise the technical quality of the team, and mentor engineers where appropriate. * Collaborate with product, data, and engineering stakeholders to translate compliance requirements into well-designed, maintainable systems. What you will achieve in the first 6 months: * Deliver meaningful contributions to the Real-time Risk platform, building confidence across the codebase and event-driven architecture. * Demonstrate clear technical ownership of an area of the system, including participation in design decisions and code review. * Have a strong understanding of how sanctions screening and continuous monitoring work end-to-end, and be able to articulate where the biggest engineering challenges and opportunities are. You will be a great fit here if you: * Take joy from building solutions that solve real customer problems * Enjoy working in domains where correctness matters, and where the systems you build are depended on by real customers in regulated industries. * Have a love of data intensive applications and products * Take a pragmatic approach to complexity, knowing when to simplify and when to invest in the right abstraction. Our ideal candidate has: * 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend systems. * Strong TypeScript/Node.js experience, with the ability to write clean, well-tested, production-ready code. * Proven experience working with complex event-driven, streaming, or queue-backed architectures (e.g. Kinesis, Kafka, SQS, or similar) in a production environment. * Solid understanding of distributed systems trade-offs: consistency, availability, latency, and failure modes. * Experience working with NoSQL and caching technologies, with comfort reasoning about data access patterns and performance. * A track record of contributing to technically complex codebases, and the ability to communicate architectural thinking clearly. * AI fluency: you actively use AI tools to accelerate your work, and can demonstrate how you apply them effectively in engineering contexts. Bonus Points for: * Experience with Java, Scala, or another multi-threaded, JVM-based language. * Familiarity with Redis or similar in-memory data stores, particularly for caching and low-latency reads. * Experience with EVM-compatible blockchains or crypto compliance domains. * OpenSearch/Elasticsearch experience, particularly around index design and schema migrations. JOB BENEFITS How We Work * Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year * £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space Learning & Development * $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development Vacation/Leave * Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays * An extra day for your birthday * Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave Benefits * Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality! * Full access to Spill Mental Health Support * Life Assurance: 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries * Cycle to Work Scheme