Staff Software Engineer - Fintech in Madrid

Staff Software Engineer - Fintech

Madrid Office - Hybrid: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home

The Role:

The Trade Engine Engineering team at Ebury is seeking a highly experienced Staff Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in our team. As part of our diverse team spread across South America and Europe, the successful candidate will be entrusted with the development and optimisation of our multi-currency accounting system and exchange of foreign currencies. You will be expected to make substantial contributions to our platform as we continually aim to enhance it and deliver the best FX experience for our clients and operational teams.

As a Staff Software Engineer in our team, your advanced technical knowledge and leadership skills will be crucial to our innovation and growth. We value collaboration and commitment, operating within a distributed setup where effective working is key.

What we offer:

• Variety of meaningful and competitive benefits to meet your needs;
• Competitive salary.;
• You’ll have continuous professional growth thanks to our career progression framework with regular reviews;
• Equity process through a performance bonus;
• Allowance to take annually paid time off as well as during local public holidays;
• Continued personal development through training and certification;
• Being part of a diverse technology team that cares deeply about culture and best practices, and believes in agile principles;
• Contribute to our technical design through our open and collaborative Request For Comments (RFC) process;
• We are Open Source friendly, following Open Source principles in our internal projects and encouraging contributions to external projects;

Why should I join Ebury?

Want to work in a high-growth environment? We are always growing. Want to build a better world? We believe in inclusion. We stand against discrimination in all forms and have no tolerance for the intolerance of differences that makes us a modern and successful organisation.

At Ebury you will find an internal group dedicated to discussing how we can build a more diverse and inclusive workplace for all people in the Technology Team, so if you’re excited about this job opportunity but your background doesn’t match exactly the requirements in the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other positions we have.

Get ready to take your career to the next level:

If there’s something that you can do in our Tech team, it is growing professionally: thanks to our career path and our collaborative and cross-working teams, every day is a new adventure.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the development of the next iteration of our FX platform’s services, fostering collaboration in the development and delivery of new products while also enhancing and automating existing ones.
• Work closely with your team members and engineering leaders to architect new services and components. Lead the design and review of complex software architectures, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability of systems while balancing immediate business needs with long-term technical goals.
• Engage with cross-functional teams including product management, design, and operations to align engineering priorities with business objectives, ensuring all stakeholders are informed and engaged.
• Participate in strategic planning and decision-making regarding project timelines, resource allocation, and technological direction, contributing to the overall growth strategy of the engineering team.
• Coach and mentor less experienced team members, positively influencing the trajectory of the team to increase overall effectiveness and efficiency.
• Drive product initiatives from discovery to delivery, ensuring alignment with product and operational teams throughout the process.

Requirements:

• Significant experience in developing complex software systems, ideally with 10+ years of professional programming experience, with a strong focus on Python. Familiarity with multiple programming paradigms and languages is an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and spoken, as you will collaborate with colleagues from different countries.
• Deep understanding of distributed system concepts, microservices architecture, and cloud-based technologies to effectively contribute to cloud-native applications.
• Proficiency in constructing and managing services, including establishing standard APIs, integrating monitoring and alerting services, and expert integration with external systems.
• Comfort with legacy code, allowing you to maintain it and propose improvements once familiar with our workflows to help reduce technical debt.
• A strong commitment to quality, expecting your code to be testable and well-covered with unit and integration tests. Familiarity with CI Jenkins pipelines and Terraform for the deployment of services and infrastructure is a plus.
• Demonstrated leadership experience in guiding engineering teams through high-impact projects, fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture.

Even if you don't meet every requirement listed, we encourage you to apply—your skills and experience might be a great fit for this role or future opportunities!

We welcome applications from candidates who require a work permit. For non-EU/EEA nationals, the company may assist with the work permit process, depending on individual circumstances.

#LI-CG1