Senior Software Engineer (Payments)

Salary: £75,000 - 80,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven track record of designing, building, and maintaining complex, highly available software systems at scale.
• Strong focus on clean code, design patterns, and testability, including unit and integration testing.
• Solid, hands-on experience in the payments, fintech, or banking space.
• Understanding of transactional consistency, ledger systems, multi-currency handling, or external financial integrations.
• Proficiency in at least one major backend language.
• Strong experience with distributed architectures, asynchronous messaging, and relational databases.
• Experience building standard APIs, integrating external systems, and setting up robust monitoring and alerting.
• Ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly and concisely in English, both written and spoken, to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of the next iteration of our global platform, streamlining complex cross-border payments and international fund collections.
• Take full accountability for the services you build, from initial system design to deployment and production health.
• Lead product initiatives end-to-end, working closely with Product and Operations stakeholders to translate financial business requirements into technical solutions.
• Mentor and coach less experienced engineers, promoting high engineering standards, code reviews, and continuous learning.
• Partner with engineering leaders and distributed teams across regions to design robust, modular services and components.

Technologies:

• Backend
• LESS
• AI
• AWS
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Django
• Flow
• Kubernetes
• PostgreSQL
• Prometheus
• Python
• Security
• Terraform

More:

We are Ebury, a fast-growing fintech company founded in 2009, helping ambitious businesses operate and scale globally through our proprietary platform. We bring together 2000+ people across nearly 70 cities and offer a dynamic, global environment with massive scale and exposure. We provide a competitive salary and benefits package, a discretionary performance-based bonus, and continued personal development through structured training and certifications. This is a Senior Software Engineer (Money Flows) role based in our London office with a hybrid working pattern of 4 days in the office and 1 day working from home. We believe in inclusion and foster an environment where our people feel valued, supported, and empowered to succeed.

last updated 34 week of 2026