Senior Product Engineer at Yonder - VC-backed fintech membership

Join Yonder to redefine consumer finance by building a seamless membership experience that combines credit, rewards, and lifestyle. As a Senior Product Engineer, you will own the end-to-end development of backend services in Scala, managing everything from core banking systems to global flight rewards, while shaping the engineering culture of a fast-growing startup.

• Build and scale production-grade microservices using Scala and Kafka to power real-time payments and rewards.
• Design resilient, event-driven architectures and RESTful APIs that integrate with internal systems and external lifestyle partners.
• Manage and optimize containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring high availability and performance across the stack.

• Expert-level proficiency in Scala with a deep understanding of functional programming patterns and event-driven architectures like Kafka.
• Extensive experience building and operating distributed microservices within cloud environments, specifically GCP and Kubernetes.
• A product-first mindset that prioritizes solving customer problems and delivering business value over technical perfection in isolated silos.

• Impact a rapidly scaling product that customers actually love, evidenced by a 4.5 TrustPilot rating and unique features like Yonder Flights.
• Work within a high-ownership engineering culture where you manage the full lifecycle, from distributed system architecture to cloud infrastructure on GCP.
• Join a well-capitalized mission following a £23.4M funding round in September 2024 to fuel international expansion and product innovation.