Senior & Mid Backend Engineers
Our background
The Fairlo story began thirty years ago with the family of our founders Jimmy and Shamon fleeing political turmoil and ending up in Sweden. Struggling to give her children all that they desired, Jimmy and Shamon’s mother took a small unsecured loan. It seemed like a good deal but it quickly turned sour as the loan increased in size in spite of the continuous payments. Much later, having grown up, the two brothers revisited this incident and it became the spark that ignited the Fairlo vision. The fact that a trusted bank took predatory advantage of their family, when they were the most vulnerable, became the starting point of a quest to create a fair credit service. Since the start circa six years ago, we've been working tirelessly to live up to the vision of an honest and easy-to-understand credit service. Without toxic terms, sneaky fine print, and nasty surprises.
About Fairlo
Unfair rates, hidden fees, and rigid terms characterise the financial industry. We believe people deserve better. Fairlo is on a mission to level the playing field and outsmart the predatory credit market by creating fair financial services from scratch. Since launch, our customers solve temporary cash flow needs in real-time at unrivaled rates.
With the aid of technology, we've created automated, easy-to-use services based on transparency and fairness. We pair our cutting-edge tech with unprecedented terms. Fair terms that continually beat traditional banks, popular credit cards, and checkout solutions alike.
The Tech hub in Heraklion is a vital part of the Fairlo family. It’s fully integrated as a branch and contributes to the Fairlo culture. As an employee in Fairlo's Tech hub in Heraklion, you can be sure that you are working for a company willing to invest time and commitment to create the hottest and most respected Tech hub in Heraklion and Europe.
What you'll do
As a Backend Engineer at Fairlo, you will take a leading role in shaping the future of our core services. Your work will involve:
- Building and Optimizing: Architect and develop critical backend systems and APIs. Your focus will include integrating with AWS and other third-party vendors.
- Full Lifecycle Involvement: Engage in all stages of the development lifecycle – from gathering requirements and designing solutions to implementation and testing.
- Continuous Improvement: Employ a curious and dynamic approach to continuously evaluate and upgrade our systems, ensuring Fairlo's technology remains at the cutting edge.
What we are looking for
Want to start your own Fairlo journey? We're looking for both senior and mid level backend engineers who are:
- Experienced: You have at least some years of experience in backend development within a professional setting.
- Technically Skilled: You have hands-on experience with modern backend frameworks such as Express.js, Nest.js, .NET / .NET Core, or Spring. Proficiency with relational databases is expected
- Cloud-Savvy: Your background includes developing web applications optimized for cloud environments, particularly AWS.
- Principled in Design: You have a solid grasp of web protocols, systems architecture, design principles, and patterns necessary to build scalable web applications.
- Agile: You are accustomed to working in an agile development environment and thrive in fast-paced, collaborative settings.
- Communicative: Strong communication skills are essential, with fluency in English required as it is our working language.
Nice to have:
- Experience with express.js web framework.
- Experience with Postgres
- Experience with microservices.
- Experience in TDD and other testing practices.
- Contribution in open-source projects.
- University and/or Postgraduate Degree in the field of Computer Science, Software Engineering, Informatics or related field of studies.
Benefits
Joining Fairlo means you'll:
- Get creative freedom along with the opportunity to build excellent services choosing architectural and technical frameworks.
- Be part of building the financial world you’d like to live in.
- Get a competitive salary and benefits package.
- Hybrid working framework.
- High-end laptop and equipment.
- Top location in Heraklion.
- Be part of a team that will support each other, have fun together and thrive.
- 30 days of paid holidays per year on top of bank holidays.
- 3 extra free sick leave days per year.
- Personal health private insurance.
- Stock options program
- Pension plan
- Life insurance
At Fairlo, you’ll not only be part of pioneering technological advancements but also join a team that values growth and innovation. Start your journey with us and help drive the future of technology at Fairlo!
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
- Team
- Tech team
- Locations
- Iraklio
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
Iraklio
Perks & benefits
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Culture
Be part of building the financial world you’d like to live in, together with outstanding colleagues in a helpful atmosphere that brings out the best in us. Regardless of whether we calculate, write or play table tennis – we strive towards having a good balance and always having fun together.
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Remote or onsite work with flexible working hours
We're a digital business, and we know that remote work in a hybrid model, can be just as good as work done onsite. When joining Fairlo, you get to choose to work from our top location offices in Stockholm, Heraklion, Athens or London.
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Personal development
Educational expenses for courses or books, anything to make you better. If you grow – Fairlo grows.
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30 days vacation on top of public holidays
To be able to be creative and productive at work, it’s also important to take time off to relax and recharge.
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Options program
All employees joining Fairlo get shares according to a specific amount, once a year, as long as you're employed.
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Health & wellness subsidy
To promote a healthy lifestyle for both mind and body.
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Health insurance
Sometimes accidents happen. Stay calm – we got you covered with health insurance.
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Pension
Don’t worry about retirement, we got you covered there as well.
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Top of the line it-equipment of your choice
The way we work
We're a rapidly growing, dedicated team that believes in mutual respect and high aspirations. Our overarching goal is to simplify the complicated and always approach solutions asking ourselves: is this truly fair? Beyond that, treating our customers and each other fairly is the very core of our culture.
Diversity
We believe that teams that create something extraordinary consist of people with different backgrounds, experiences, competencies and personalities. No matter which of our offices you step into, you’ll be welcomed by a team with wildly different personalities and backgrounds.
Freedom based on business goals
Based on Fairlo's overall goals, everyone is given a full mandate within their area of responsibility and is expected to take responsibility for contributing to our greater goals.
Can-do-mindset
We are open about sharing problems and any challenges we see, but always with a focus on presenting solutions on how to move forward when doing so.
Passion
We’re curious and always keen to learn more and keep growing in our respective fields of expertise. We’re all passionate about what we do and where we’re going.
About Fairlo
We started Fairlo to make financial services more transparent, fair, and easy to use. To succeed, we're building a custom technological platform marketed with brand loyalty and excellent customer relationships in mind.
We'd love to hear your thoughts on our mission! Connect with us and let's talk more!
Senior & Mid Backend Engineers
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