
Understanding Recruitment
Senior Software Engineer - South East London
Job Description
Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year
Requirements:- AI-assisted coding experience, either at work or in your own time
- Backend Engineering experience using Java, Golang, or Rust
- Experience working with Kafka or event-driven systems
- Develop and enhance an event-sourced transaction engine
- Build an interest/pricing engine for our platform
- Design and implement a real-time data plane
- Collaborate with a team of experienced engineers with banking expertise
- AI
- Backend
- Golang
- Java
- Kafka
- Rust
- Cursor
- LLM
More:
We are a pioneering open banking platform located in Liverpool Street, London, focused on replacing legacy core systems at banks. Our team consists of highly experienced professionals, and we are expanding by adding 10 engineers in Q1 this year. We offer a competitive salary of up to £150,000, bonuses, medical and dental insurance, a pension plan, and 4 weeks of paid time off.
last updated 33 week of 2026
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Understanding Recruitment
South East London
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£100,000
This role
£75,000
UK median
This salary is 33% above the UK median for Senior roles (£75,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks