Full Stack Developer ( Lead )

at  Yapily

Yapily is on a mission to enable innovative companies to create better and fairer financial services for everyone, through the power of open banking.
In the fast paced world of FinTech open banking, where innovation meets financial services, we are seeking an exceptional engineer to drive our engineering team to new heights.
Join us in shaping the future of open banking, and making a real impact in the financial industry.
Learn more: https://www.yapily.com/company/about-us

REQUIREMENTS

Key Tasks

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new customer facing products and features.
• Develop scalable and high-performance web applications and components for both frontend and backend.
• Implement and maintain internal APIs for seamless integration between frontend and backend systems.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code while following best practices and coding standards and and take ownership of QA to ensure robust, secure applications..
• Troubleshoot and debug issues, optimising application performance for both cost-effectiveness and quality, and ensure security best practices are followed.
• Work closely with UX/UI designers to implement visually appealing and intuitive user interfaces.
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to gather and refine specifications and requirements.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality, promote knowledge sharing, and ensure high development standards across the organisation.

Requirements

• You have strong leadership skills with a track record of operating and working in high-performing engineering teams
• You have proven experience with Nuxt/VueJS (or similar e.g. Next/React)
• You have experience with Kubernetes and micro services
• You can comfortably debug a distributed system e.g. using distributed tracing
• You have an API-first product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you like to listen to their use-cases before diving into code
• You have demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing complex projects across frontend and backend domains
• You are driven and curious. You ask questions and you strive to understand
• You understand that the team will have different strengths. You’re happy to learn from them and to share your expertise.
• You are comfortable with the pace, ambiguity, and the need to be a self-starter that comes with working in a start-up.

This list is not exhaustive, and there may be other tasks that we ask you to be involved in from time to time. Above all, you are flexible and want to add value wherever you can. You understand that in a small and relatively young organisation, priorities change. Not only will you expect to be asked to input and lead in other areas, but you’ll be instigating this yourself.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new customer facing products and features.
• Develop scalable and high-performance web applications and components for both frontend and backend.
• Implement and maintain internal APIs for seamless integration between frontend and backend systems.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code while following best practices and coding standards and and take ownership of QA to ensure robust, secure applications..
• Troubleshoot and debug issues, optimising application performance for both cost-effectiveness and quality, and ensure security best practices are followed.
• Work closely with UX/UI designers to implement visually appealing and intuitive user interfaces.
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to gather and refine specifications and requirements.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality, promote knowledge sharing, and ensure high development standards across the organisation