Senior API Engineer

About the role

Ebury helps ambitious businesses unlock global growth, and we take the same approach with our people. We encourage innovation and movement, collaboration and problem-solving, and foster an environment where everyone can feel they belong, are valued, supported and empowered to succeed.

If you’re a collaborator who wants to help transform how businesses operate globally, get in touch - we’d love to discuss how Ebury can accelerate your career so you can shape the future.

Senior API Engineer

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

We are seeking a Senior Backend-focused Engineer to play a crucial part in our API team. In this role, you will be working on scaling our main web application and developing tooling and processes to empower Ebury product teams to ship amazing features efficiently and independently while maintaining a unified, usable experience for our customers.

We’re looking for the right attitude, work ethic, and entrepreneurial spirit to ask the hard questions. To be informed by data, but be led by a desire to solve our customers' problems. You should learn by default and be ever curious. You should be programming language, framework, and tool agnostic but have strong opinions (weakly held) on the right tool to solve our biggest problems.

Responsibilities:

- Contribute to the development of the next iteration of our platform channels, collaborating both in the development and delivery of new products but also in the improvement and maintenance of existing ones

- Collaborate with your team members and engineering leaders to design new services and components using our Request For Comments (RFC) process

- In line with our 'You build it, you own it' philosophy, we expect you to take full ownership of the products you build, embracing both their development and ongoing maintenance

- We look for developers that can build and run services. Therefore, you will be comfortable with containerising your code, and adding monitoring and alerting to your services

- Quality is important to us; we expect your code to be testable and well covered with unit and integration tests

- We use CI/CD pipelines and IaC tools for the deployment of services and infrastructure. From time to time, you might need to contribute to it

- Mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, collaboration and innovation, while setting an example of culture and performance

- The position may require being on-call at times

About you:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)

- 5+ years of software development experience, with a proven track record of building high-performance, client-facing web applications

- Knowledge of basic algorithms, object-oriented and functional design principles, and best-practice patterns