Software Engineer at Luno

The Role In a Nutshell

• We're building a team to help us succeed in our mission to upgrade the world to a better financial system. These positions are in a range of teams including fraud, platform, rewards, payments, shield, and onboarding. You'll be joining a group of highly motivated software engineers who you'll work collaboratively with across our pods.
• As a fast-growing company with offices around the world, you'll immediately see how your contributions directly impact both our internal users and client experience. Many of the problems we are solving result in trail blazing solutions which can't be found on Stack Overflow; so we're looking for engineers who flourish working in a complex domain.
• We use Go as our back end language but if you come from a Java, Python or another programming language and are eager to learn a new language, our engineering on-boarding program will help you develop your skills.
• Our teams are split into pods, each of which focuses on a specific aspect of our product. Your pod will include a product owner, back end engineers, Android and iOS developers, and web developers who each bring a unique perspective to the problem you are all contributing towards. We're agile, use continuous integration and continuous delivery, deploying to production every single day.

Your Mission Will Involve

• You'll join a pod and contribute to their objective.
• You'll build distributed microservices that are accessed by 2.5m customers from across the globe.
• You'll share your experience to help mentor your teammates.

 

In Your First Six Months, You Will

• You will start by flying to Cape Town for two weeks to learn our processes, meet the wider team and start our engineering onboarding program. After getting comfortable with the basics, you'll start learning our idiomatic patterns in a safe, easy-to-follow way - by building your own toy micro services. You'll get to practice how we do design docs, code reviews, deployments, events, logging and monitoring.
• After completing the Toy Services onboarding program, you'll begin your journey contributing to your pod's success. You'll help plan the next quarter's OKRs and will begin delivering features from our product roadmap. We succeed as a team, so we will provide you with regular feedback from your manager and peers and will encourage you to do the same.

The Ideal Lunaut For This Role, Will Have

Building a new financial system for the world requires a special breed of people working together with unusual skill, focus and determination. "Moontality" represents the ten core principles that underpin everything we do, setting us apart from the rest.

• A passion for blockchain and cryptocurrencies (this is a new industry so we'll help you learn about how the blockchain works and the technicals).
• A proven background in computer science in areas such as algorithms, data structures, and software design.
• Extensive programming experience in at least one language such as Go, Java, C++, C#, Python, etc.
• A continuous improvement mindset.

Don't be put off if you don't tick all of the boxes – they're a guide based on what we'd love to see but we appreciate that excellent software engineers have diverse backgrounds.