Senior Software Engineer - Core Systems
ONMO · London, England, United Kingdom
Software Engineering
About this role
The candidate will join the Core Systems team to design, build, and run foundational banking capabilities such as money movement, interest calculation, and reconciliation. The role involves building new core systems from the ground up and migrating away from vendors using safe migration patterns. The technical environment is heavily focused on Node.js, TypeScript, and AWS, utilizing both serverless and containerized compute. The engineer will set engineering standards through an RFC process and mentor other engineers across the function. The work is highly impactful, as these systems are provide the core infrastructure that all other engineering teams at Onmo depend on.
Skills & technologies
Must have
Nice to have
- Fintech
- Payments
- Ledger
- Reconciliation
- Card rails
- Double-entry accounting
- AI-assisted development tooling
- Startup experience
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About The Role
We're building the core banking capabilities that power everything at Onmo - the systems that hold accounts, move money, calculate interest and generate statements. The Core Systems team owns these capabilities end to end, along with the shared services the rest of engineering builds on.
You'll help build new core systems from the ground up as we grow and pursue a UK banking licence, evolve the services every team depends on, and set patterns that get adopted across engineering. Your work reaches customers through every journey at once.
TECH STACK
Skills / Attributes
Role
At Onmo we all take collective responsibility for our individual roles in creating the best outcomes for our customers. In this role that involves:
We're building the core banking capabilities that power everything at Onmo - the systems that hold accounts, move money, calculate interest and generate statements. The Core Systems team owns these capabilities end to end, along with the shared services the rest of engineering builds on.
You'll help build new core systems from the ground up as we grow and pursue a UK banking licence, evolve the services every team depends on, and set patterns that get adopted across engineering. Your work reaches customers through every journey at once.
TECH STACK
- Backend: Node.js / TypeScript on AWS — serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis) and containerised compute (ECS, ECR, EC2), with more of the latter as our core systems grow
- Frontend: React / Next.js
- Infrastructure: Terraform, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Docker
- Observability: Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki
- Design, build and run core banking capabilities - money movement, interest, statements, reconciliation - that are accurate, monitored and dependable
- Build new core systems and migrate off vendors safely: parallel runs, reconciliation, clean cutovers
- Own and evolve our shared services: modernise patterns, improve reliability and performance, keep them easy to build on
- Set patterns that get adopted across engineering through our RFC process - landed as libraries, guides and paved paths, not one-off fixes
- Review other teams' contributions to core-owned services: quick, helpful reviews that keep the bar high without blocking anyone
- Write code that sets the standard - tested, correct, documented - and mentor engineers across the function
- Help shape technical direction with the tech lead: architecture, build-vs-buy decisions, engineering standards
- Make our systems self-serve, so other teams can ship on them without needing us
Skills / Attributes
- You care about correctness - edge cases, idempotency, retries, reconciliation - because this code moves money
- You're comfortable designing distributed, event-driven systems and reasoning about failure modes and data consistency
- You'd rather build the paved path than fix the same problem five times, and you write things down so others can follow
- You communicate clearly with engineers, product and business stakeholders, and review others' work firmly and kindly
- You're pragmatic in a startup: happy across greenfield builds and a legacy estate mid-migration, choosing boring technology when boring is right
- You want real ownership of foundational systems
- Can operate effectively under ambiguity
- Proven experience as a senior backend or full-stack engineer building and running distributed systems in production
- Strong Node.js/TypeScript and AWS, across serverless and containerised workloads
- Infrastructure as code with Terraform; CI/CD as a habit
- A track record of raising engineering standards around you — through reviews, patterns, tooling or mentoring
- You write clean, tested, maintainable code and leave systems more understandable than you found them
- Fintech, banking, payments or ledger experience - reconciliation, card rails, double-entry accounting
- Experience with core system migrations or vendor replacements
- Experience getting real leverage from AI-assisted development tooling
- Start-up experience
Role
At Onmo we all take collective responsibility for our individual roles in creating the best outcomes for our customers. In this role that involves:
- Following the FCA Conduct Rules:
- You must act with integrity
- You must act with due skill, care and diligence
- You must be open and cooperative with the FCA, PRA and other regulators
- You must pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly
- You must observe proper standards of market conduct
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