Who we are:
Zilch was born to create the world’s most empowering way to pay and is on a mission to revolutionise the credit payment industry with innovative products for customers to manage cash flow, responsibly. As one of the UK’s first pay-over-time providers to be granted a consumer credit licence by the FCA, Zilch’s transparent and customer centric credit alternative is designed with regulators to ensure consumer protection and financial health from the start. Utilising sophisticated Open Banking technology and soft credit checks, Zilch uses its real-time view and understanding of customer’s affordability to give accurate recommendations of what they can afford to borrow.
The company is growing at lightning speed, and we want YOU to be an integral part of our journey. In November 2021 Zilch became Europe’s fastest ever double unicorn fintech and with more than 250,000 new customers registering per month, we are one of the fastest growing FinTech's in the world. Zilch’s direct-to-consumer proposition offers its customers unrestricted access to all 37m merchants that accept Mastercard, online or instore via Tap and Pay.
We are a people-first culture and is continuously investing in our employees as well as their long-term career development.
About the role:
Zilch is searching for talented Java Software Engineers to join our dynamic and fast-paced team. We are looking to speak with coding enthusiasts who live and breathe software, and who obsess about quality. This role is a fantastic opportunity for Engineers who would like to get involved in building from the ground up, and who are solution focussed. If this sounds like you, please send in your CV and a member of the Talent team will get back to you.
Day-to-day responsibilities include:
- Analysing software for new features, designs, and releases as well as exploratory testing to ensure the company’s platform maintain high standards as it grows.
- Being responsible for app and software programs testing and advising on testing improvements.
- Working in an agile environment on user stories that deliver significant impact for our customers.
- Building integrations and APIs that are rock-solid, secure,
well-tested, and highly performant. - Continually improving software code, systems, practices,
and knowledge. - Working with databases and data to ensure the Company
store and process information securely and effectively. - Continuously discovering, evaluating, and implementing
new, custom user interfaces for efficiency, development
and performance. - Liaising with users to prioritise inbound bug reports and reproduce reported issues.
- Working closely with the team in relation to identifying effective testing strategies and providing continuous support to junior staff.
Key requirements:
- A Bachelor and/or Masters degree
- 4+ years’ experience in Java Software Development
- 4+ years’ using Spring Boot
- 4+ years’ experience with in-memory databases such as Redis or Memcached
- 4+ years’ integrating with external services
- Technically minded with an ability to grasp technical concepts quickly.
- Highly detail-oriented and committed to quality.
- A positive, collaborative attitude and approach to testing.
Bonus skills:
- Exposure to AWS or other cloud providers
- Exposure to NoSQL type databases (e.g., MongoDB)
- Exposure to React or Angular
- Exposure to TypeScript
- DevOps mindset
- Experience working on B2C product
Benefits:
- Income protection - long term injury or illness the company will pay 75% of your base salary for up to 5 years
- Pension scheme, 5% employee contribution and 3% employer contribution
- 26 days holiday
- Family friendly policy
- Maternity - 6 months full pay and return to work bonus
- Paternity - 6 weeks full pay
- Enhanced Shared Parental Leave Pay and return to work bonus
- Enhanced Adoption Pay and return to work bonus
- Death in Service - 3x your annual basic salary up to £550k - complete expression of wish form
- Private medical insurance
- Specialist referrals
- Counselling / Talking Therapy / CBT
- Dental
- Optical
- Physiotherapy / osteopathy
- Cancer cover
- Virtual Doctor Online - online GP appointments within 2 hours
- Gym membership discounts
- £200 joining bonus for WFH set up on Zilch app
- Learning & Development - company support for professional qualifications and learning development
- Employee assistance programme
- Legal advice
- Financial advice (including mortgage advice)
- Childcare support
- Relocation advice
- Lifework perks - online cash back at over 1200 brands, cinema discounts, digital gift cards
- Hybrid working
- Casual dress code
- Work related social events
- Free fruit, snacks, and refreshments in the office (and in office barista)
- Opportunities to work from overseas offices
- Office breakout zone, including table tennis, pool, and comfortable seating
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