Software Engineer III

Our vision Our vision is to combine passion, expertise, and technology to provide best-in-class investment solutions and advice that protects and grows client wealth over time.Our Core Values: Relationships are our first asset: We’re one team, built on trust, honesty, and transparency. We value our relationships above all else.Trust drives success: We give each other the space to grow. We empower our employees to succeed, so they can make a real impact.Our customers dream big, just like us: We see the bigger picture and we make sure our customers see it, too. We’re always focused on the best outcomes for our clients and for each other, no matter what the goal, or how big the dreamWhat this means in practice: At Moneyfarm, our success comes from the impact each of us makes. We move with purpose, urgency, and ambition, focused on delivering outcomes that matter for our clients and our business. Everyone is empowered to take ownership, challenge the status quo, and turn bold ideas into results. As we evolve, we embrace AI as a catalyst for sharper thinking, smarter decisions, and even greater impact.Our diversity makes this possible. Different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences fuel our creativity and drive better decisions — it’s our competitive edge. We value people for who they are and their unique strengths: that's why we offer flexible ways of working to support them in doing their best work.About the role: In this role you will be a Scala developer in one of our application platform development team. Likely technical challenges you will be facing in your first year at Moneyfarm will be related to adapting the architecture of our systems with strong customer growth in mind, and to enhancing our value proposition.As a senior member you will provide guidance and support to your colleagues, helping with their technical and professional growth.A successful candidate in this role will be pragmatic, value simplicity and effectiveness, and be biased for action. They will consider being wrong an opportunity for learning and will not consider any part of the software development lifecycle to be someone else's problem.Your job title will be Senior Software Engineer, but your job will be to help us build a great product that our customers love, and a great environment to work in. We are looking for people who want to make an impact in whatever they can, contributing their ideas to how we can improve our product, our technology and the way we work.Responsibilities: Together with your team, you own the development, maintenance and non-functional aspects of some of Moneyfarm core systems. e.g. our trading and billing systems.Continually work to improve the way that your team works together.When needed, research and evaluate new approaches and technologies, and demonstrate their value.Mentor and support your more junior colleagues, using your experience to help them.Work closely with colleagues from around the wider engineering team to define and evolve our systems architecture.Own the production operation and non-functional aspects of the systems you create.Work closely with your team’s Engineering Lead and Product Manager to design upcoming projects for the team.Qualifications: You have at least 7 years of commercial experience in software engineering.A BSc in Software Engineering or Computer Science or higher degree is non essential, but nice to have.A proven track record of delivering projects successfully.Scala commercial experience is highly preferred, but not essential provided you have strong transferable skills, e.g. Java 8+, Kotlin, functional programming, etc.Experience working with microservices architectures, event streaming systems and cloud providers is also preferred. Kafka, Kubernetes and AWS knowledge is a plus.A good understanding of agile methodologies (particularly Kanban/Lean), their principles and their ceremonies.Comfortable working in remote-friendly teams distributed between multiple locations.Experience in financial services working on tooling for position keeping or middle office is required.Able to communicate effectively in English (written and spoken), Italian is a nice to have.The position requires to come the office (Milan or Cagliari as you prefer) at least 2 times a week.Benefits: Health Insurance, Wellness planFee free investments on Moneyfarm platformCareer development opportunitiesTraining opportunitiesRegular office social eventsHappy and friendly culture#J-18808-Ljbffr