Abound is a fintech company redefining consumer lending in the UK and beyond, using AI and Open Banking data to make fair and affordable personal finance available to more people. We're looking for a Software Engineer to help build high-quality backend systems that accelerate our mission.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience building backend systems with Python
- Practical experience working with Django
- Experience designing or consuming RESTful APIs
- Experience designing and exposing GraphQL APIs for frontend applications
- Experience working with Postgres and relational data models
- Familiarity with Pydantic, typed Python, or modern Python engineering practices
- Some experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally Google Cloud, or a strong desire to learn
- A good eye for clean architecture, API design, performance, reliability, and maintainability
- A product-minded approach: you care about the 'why' behind what you're building
- A strong sense of ownership and accountability
- The ability to uncover unknowns, navigate ambiguity, and turn complex problems into clear, shippable solutions
- Pride in your craft, clean code, thoughtful reviews, and helping others grow
- Experience with PDF generation or document rendering workflows
- Experience in early-stage or fast-moving product teams
- Familiarity with observability, monitoring, alerting, and infrastructure operations
- A data-driven approach to decision-making
- Openness to change, innovation, and the ways AI will reshape how products are built and used
Benefits
- Everyone owns a piece of the company - equity
- Hybrid with 3 days a week in the office
- 25 days' holiday a year, plus 8 bank holidays
- 2 paid volunteering days per year
- One month paid sabbatical after 4 years
- Employee loan
- Free gym membership through WellHub
- Team wellness budget to be active together
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