Software Engineer - Remote

Overview

At Kroo Bank, we’re building the future of banking with modern technology and a culture that values innovation, collaboration, and impact. Unlike traditional banks or outsourcing firms, our engineers shape real products used by thousands of customers every day in the UK.

In Short

• Be part of a new generation UK bank. Kroo was awarded a full UK banking licence in 2022, making us one of only a handful of fintechs to achieve this milestone.
• We’re one of the fastest-growing banks in the UK, reaching £1 billion in deposits faster than any of our peers, with 200,000+ customer accounts and growing every day.
• Work with a modern stack: Clojure, React Native, Kafka, AWS, Docker, Terraform.
• Practise or learn functional programming (we’ll support you even if you’re new to it).
• Be part of a cross-functional squad where engineers, designers, testers and product managers collaborate as equals.
• Permanent employment contract in Romania, 100% remote, with flexible hours and a healthy work-life balance.
• Competitive salary and stock options, so you share in the success of the company.
• Join a young, dynamic, and mission-driven organisation where your work directly shapes how people bank in the UK.

Requirements

• Build and deliver new features end-to-end, from idea to production, in a modern CI/CD environment.
• Work across the stack including backend microservices (Clojure, Kafka, AWS, Postgress) to frontend (React Native). We offer opportunities to specialise or grow as a full-stack engineer.
• Collaborate daily with product, design, and engineering colleagues to ship customer-facing features in an agile environment based on Kanban and XP practises such as pair programming and test driven development.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, and participate in code reviews.
• Contribute to system design discussions and bring ideas to improve scalability and resilience.
• Keep learning, diving deeper into banking products, functional programming, mobile frameworks, or cloud infrastructure.
• Optionally, contribute back to open source and share knowledge with the wider engineering community.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Flexible working hours.
• Healthy work-life balance.
• Opportunity to work with modern technologies.
• Support for learning functional programming.
• Be part of a dynamic and mission-driven organization.