What the job involves

• We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to help us build and scale our backend systems as we continue to grow our customer base and expand the features of our product. You’ll be joining a collaborative and talented team, working cross-functionally with engineers, product managers, and commercial teams to create real impact across the business
• You’ll play a key role in designing and delivering high-quality backend features that support both customer-facing journeys and internal business systems, such as supply chain and operations. Your work will directly contribute to our ability to serve more customers, more efficiently – and will help drive growth across our core platform
• You’ll be joining a team that values autonomy, fast iteration, and tackling meaningful challenges. You’ll have the freedom to experiment, propose new ideas, and take ownership of projects from concept to deployment. This is a chance to do some of the best work of your career in a supportive, no-ego environment
• You’ll play a key role in designing and delivering high-quality backend features that support both customer-facing journeys and internal business systems, such as supply chain and operations
• Your work will directly contribute to our ability to serve more customers, more efficiently – and will help drive growth across our core platform
• You’ll be joining a team that values autonomy, fast iteration, and tackling meaningful challenges
• You’ll have the freedom to experiment, propose new ideas, and take ownership of projects from concept to deployment
• This is a chance to do some of the best work of your career in a supportive, no-ego environment
• Lead the development of backend features that support our customers and internal teams
• Design scalable solutions that take the end user into account – not just the backend
• Collaborate closely with other backend, frontend, and mobile engineers, as well as cross-functional stakeholders
• Drive projects through ambiguity and bring clarity where needed, taking initiative to move things forward
• Contribute to the team’s technical direction, including design discussions, code reviews, and mentoring
• Participate in our engineering rota, helping to investigate and resolve production issues
• Deploy your own code frequently – we empower engineers to take ownership and ship often, rather than having a separate devops team
• Support a culture of learning, pairing, and curiosity to continuously raise the technical bar and succeed together

The application process

• What’s next? Once you submit your application, our Talent Team will contact you if you have been shortlisted for the role
• We set an exceptionally high bar at Raylo, and in return, we will aim to give you the best candidate experience possible
• If there's anything we can do to make your application process easier for you, because of disability, neurodiversity or any other personal reason, please let us know
• Stage 1: Talent Screening
• Stage 2: Hiring Manager Interview
• Stage 3: Task Stage: Pull Request Review + Pair-Programming Session
• Stage 4: Systems/Product Design session
• Stage 5: Values-based Interview & Co-founder Final
• As an FCA-regulated business, we conduct background checks (DBS and AML) on all successful candidates who are offered a position at Raylo during the onboarding process

Benefits

• 33 days holiday per year (25 days, + an extra 8 days to choose the days that mean most to you)
• Share in Raylo's Success - Stock options for all employees
• Hybrid working environment
• Family-first policies - Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Workplace nursery scheme
• Perkbox membership - hundreds of perks and discounts to support physical, financial and mental wellbeing
• Get the latest tech - Exclusive Raylo device lease for all Employees
• Invest in your growth - L&D budget to support the skills you value
• Free sustainable breakfast and snacks, every day you’re in the office
• Fun (yet optional) Raylo quarterly socials, plus summer and Christmas parties