Associate Software Engineer

About Griffin

Hi, we’re Griffin! We’re the bank for companies who want to build and launch financial products.

Our context

We're rapidly heading towards a future where most of us access financial services through technology companies rather than high street banks. All sorts of companies are now embedding financial products into their apps and user journeys so that their customers can seamlessly make payments, manage expenses, take out loans, save, invest, and do more.

The problem is that companies are still dependent on legacy banking infrastructure if they want to offer regulated financial products. They need to either partner directly with an (slow-moving, risk-averse) incumbent bank and/or stitch together middleware from various Banking as a Service (BaaS) providers. This process is slow, expensive, and complex and makes it very hard for companies to get new financial products off the ground.

At Griffin, we want to change this.

Our purpose

We want to make it easy for companies to bring finance to their customers at the point of greatest relevance. So, we built a bank.

But not just any bank! Griffin is a technology platform and a bank: fully regulated, API-first, developer-centric, and purpose-built to serve innovative fintechs and brands who want to build and embed financial products.

Learn more about what we do.

Our culture

Our culture is our most important asset, and one of the ways we safeguard it is by being extremely intentional about hiring the right people. We won't hire people who don’t seem like a strong fit for our core values, even if they're otherwise extremely qualified.

We also believe that smart, motivated, conscientious people thrive in high-trust, high-autonomy environments. That’s why we’re transparent by default, and we encourage open discussion and challenge across all levels of the organisation. We’re also remote-first, asynchronous, and fully flexible - because you're the expert on how and when you do your best work.

Learn more about our culture.

The Engineering Team:

We have grown over the last year to our current team size of 38 which is spread across our 4 Product areas (FinCrime Ops, Banking, Payments and Platform) and Infrastructure. Rather than "move fast and break things", we aim to move thoughtfully and to make few mistakes. We are an output-driven environment that operates with extreme autonomy; people are free to keep their own hours and we don't micro-manage each other.

Our backend stack is Clojure, FoundationDB, Kubernetes and AWS

Our frontend stack is CLJS, Reframe, Reagent, React, Stitches, Storybook, and Playroom

What will you be doing here?

As an Associate Engineer at Griffin, you will:

• Support the development of a “Continuous Audit” automation of our existing manual audit processes.
• Implement automated monitoring and alerting relating to audit and compliance in our infrastructure and corporate IT systems.
• Assist the CTO and Infrastructure Engineering Manager in the collation of evidence for internal, external and third party audits or certifications - currently a manual process.
• Meet with auditors to understand their requirements, and identify how to best evidence the challenges they put forward.
• Work with second and third line risk teams to identify further areas of improvement in our controls and reporting.
• Support the wider infrastructure team projects.

Who are you?

The ideal candidate for this job will have most of the following:

• Software Engineering fundamentals such as Algorithms, Databases, Data Structures and Programming paradigms.
• A growth mindset that’s demonstrated by a willingness to seek out feedback.
• A collaborative approach to building software.
• Clear and succinct communication style both written and spoken.

Nice to haves:

• Experience of functional programming (Clojure, Haskell, Elixir, Erlang).
• Experience with some of our engineering stack (AWS, CDK, Kubernetes, Clojure).
• You have an interest in security and compliance, ideally with practical experience.

The interview process

1. Get to know you with a member of Talent
2. Deep dive into your professional experience, software engineering, collaboration skills, and mindset, with one of our engineering leaders.
3. Take home task looking at your writing and coding a simple automated audit task.
4. Discussion around technical topics with peers, including automating audit, software/data engineering experience, li