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About Us

Financefair is not just another Fintech company; we are a dedicated team of professionals committed to providing innovative financial solutions that propel businesses forward. Since being formed in 2015, we have been obsessed about providing flexible, innovative funding products and the best-in-class customer experience to become the finance partner of choice. Over the last 10 years, Financefair has provided over €2bn in funding to a wide range of clients across all sectors. We are in a period of rapid growth, launching new technologies, expanding our team and growing our client base.

About Us

Financefair is not just another Fintech company; we are a dedicated team of professionals committed to providing innovative financial solutions that propel businesses forward. Since being formed in 2015, we have been obsessed about providing flexible, innovative funding products and the best-in-class customer experience to become the finance partner of choice. Over the last 10 years, Financefair has provided over €2bn in funding to a wide range of clients across all sectors. We are in a period of rapid growth, launching new technologies, expanding our team and growing our client base.

The Role

We're looking for a Mid-Level Back End Engineer who's comfortable working across modern stacks and is ready to contribute to building scalable, cloud-based solutions. Bonus points if you have some hands-on experience or curiosity about front end development.

You'll join a pragmatic, friendly engineering team working closely with other engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to design, build, and ship quality features; with a lot of autonomy and a focus on delivering real value.

This role reports to the Staff Engineer and collaborates with the Head of Engineering, Product and Data teams to drive growth projects. It offers a strong career path within a fast-scaling fintech, where you'll gain hands-on experience and sharpen your skills.

The position is a hybrid role requiring 3 days per week in our head office at Belfield Office Park, Clonskeagh, Dublin.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain APIs and microservices using Java or Kotlin with Spring Boot
• Write efficient SQL queries to support data analysis and optimise system performance
• Build and maintain AWS-based infrastructure (ECS, S3, RDS, IAM, etc.)
• Collaborate on architecture, code reviews, and technical design discussions
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code
• Participate in agile ceremonies and work closely with product and QA
• Occasionally contribute to front-end codebases built with React
• Monitor and optimise application performance and reliability
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve application issues in production
  
  

What We're Looking For

Must Have

• 2-5 years of experience as a back end engineer (Java, Kotlin, or both)
• Solid knowledge of Spring Boot and related ecosystem
• Good understanding of SQL and Spring-based persistence (JPA/Hibernate, Spring Data, etc.)
• Experience building RESTful APIs and microservices
• Familiarity with AWS (hands-on with at least a few services: e.g., Lambda, S3, ECS, RDS, Terraform a plus)
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment
• Good communication skills
  
  

Nice To Have

• Experience of other programming languages beyond just Java
• Exposure to React and willingness to learn/contribute to the front end when needed
• Experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CodePipeline)
• Familiarity with Docker, containers, and cloud-native best practices
  
  

Working At Financefair

• Competitive salary with performance related bonus opportunity
• A contributory pension scheme with life assurance and other insurances
• A contribution to a healthcare plan of your choice or gym membership
• Opportunity to work closely with the CEO & Founders
• Opportunity to progress to Management alongside growth of the division
• A company who invests in the learning and development of its people
  
  

Location: Hybrid - 3 days in the officeSeniority level

• Seniority levelMid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment typeFull-time

Job function

• Job functionEngineering and Information Technology

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