Senior Lead Backend Engineer
Neverless is a London-headquartered, EU-regulated investment platform offering trading and investing in crypto, stocks, ETFs, precious metals, yield strategies, and asset-backed borrowing.
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About Neverless
Founded in 2022 by former Revolut executives, Neverless operates a mobile and web investment platform. Its current offering includes 800+ cryptocurrencies, 1,000+ U.S. stocks, 400+ ETFs, gold and silver, leverage and shorting, automated recurring purchases, daily crypto interest, market-neutral Strategies, crypto-backed borrowing, and the Boosted Bitcoin Plan. First-party disclosures identify multiple operating entities across Spain, Latvia, and Costa Rica, with services varying by jurisdiction.
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About the Role
Design, build, and scale backend infrastructure supporting trading execution, regulatory reporting, user accounts, and asset custody. Architect distributed systems for high-throughput financial transactions, own service reliability, performance, and security, and maintain CI/CD, monitoring, and observability tooling. Partner with product and compliance teams to deliver regulatory-compliant features and contribute to engineering practices.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience.
- 4+ years of Java development experience.
- Experience architecting large-scale complex systems and addressing performance, reliability, and security requirements.
- Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and concurrency programming.
- Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines and automated monitoring.
- Experience with clean coding and TDD.
- Fluency in English.
- Proficiency in Rust.
- Professional experience writing and deploying blockchain smart contracts.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale backend infrastructure for trading execution, regulatory reporting, user accounts, and asset custody.
- Architect and evolve large-scale distributed systems for high-throughput financial transactions.
- Own the reliability, performance, and security of core backend services.
- Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated monitoring, and observability tooling.
- Partner with product and compliance teams to implement features that meet user and regulatory requirements.
- Establish and champion clean code, TDD, code review, and documentation practices.
- Contribute to technical decision-making and shape the engineering culture as the team scales.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Annual performance bonus.
- Fully expensed equipment.
- Remote-flexible work.
- Opportunity to build core financial infrastructure from scratch at a fast-growing licensed fintech.
- Collaborative, international, and high-calibre engineering team.
