• Are you curious, excited by experimentation and always looking for a better way of doing things?  
• Do you want to keep learning and developing whilst getting hands-on experience working in the embedded payments space?
• Do you want to have the opportunity to lead a team responsible for building best-in-class payments products?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

We are looking to hire ambitious, and value-adding talent to join Modulr, the fastest growing payments business in the UK and Europe, and are looking to hire ambitious, and value-adding talent.

About Us

At Modulr our mission is to move money efficiently to power business productivity. We are building a new digital payments service to make money flow more efficiently through businesses and the economy. This is a new type of payments account that is built for businesses that need faster, easier and more reliable ways to move money.

Our flexible platform and innovate approach allows our customers to utilise our payments account instead of a traditional bank account. Our accounts come with a sort code and account number, access to payment systems (eg Faster Payments and Visa) and everything our customers need from a payments account. They can instantly open as many accounts as they need, automate how they make and receive payments as well as the reconciliation processes these create. All in real time, 24/7 through their own systems utilising our API that integrates into any platform.

Our founding team has a wealth of experience in the payments industry and growing successful businesses. Modulr is backed by payments giants PayPal Ventures and FIS Ventures, as well as startup and scale up specialists Blenheim Chalcot, General Atlantic, Frog and Highland Europe which enables us to leverage their resources and expertise to drive our growth initiatives. These partnerships provide us with the necessary provisions to propel our business to new heights.

Modulr values

• Building the extraordinary and going that extra mile
• Owning the opportunity, be passionate and proud of the time you invest
• Move at pace, reach your goals faster with us supporting you each step of the way
• Achieve it together, working as a team and being Modulite

The Role

To execute on our mission you and the team will drive innovation and the future growth of the platform that powers Scotland's Fintech of the Year. To give you a picture of the sort of work that you are likely to encounter some of the projects on our roadmap include:

As a part of the Platform Team your voice and knowledge will be crucial in the direction of the platform, you and the team are makers of your own destiny. In order to achieve many of these projects we lean on our varied expertise as well as existing practices and paradigms, which are heavily influenced by Site Reliability Engineering. It is important to note that as part of this role you will be expected to be on call for the platform and actively contribute to improving how we manage incidents. On call is renumerated separately with a flat rate as well as an additional bonus if you are called out whilst you are on call.

We also function as ambassadors to the engineering squads to encourage best practice for areas we are experts in as well as to gather requirements from the engineering teams as to what they need us to build in the future. This mechanism is the conduit by which many of our ideas and improvements percolate, both in the engineering teams and in the platform.

Key responsibilities

• Work closely with the Chief Product Officer to define Modulr’s product vision, strategy and roadmap, taking ownership of the delivery and ongoing success of the payment’s roadmap.
• Set OKRs for your products and lead your team to execute against those OKRs.
• Provide day-to-day guidance, coaching and development for your team to execute high-quality deliverables including but not limited to:
  • Technical designs and specifications, that address business requirements
  • Epic and user story definition including clear acceptance criteria.
  • Ensuring scalable ways of working with our engineering function to prioritise requirements and deliver at pace each sprint.
  • Ensuring end-to-end delivery of products, ensuring all implications on teams across the business are understood and managed ahead of go-live.
  • Ensuring internal documentation and functional product collateral is created and maintained.
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• Accountable for the delivery of our payments roadmap:
• Actively develop and manage relationships with payments schemes and key suppliers, both at the operational and strategic level.
• Embed a data-driven mindset across your team to ensure our prioritisation decisions solve our customers’ problems.
• Develop metrics for your products and assessing the ongoing, overall performance of all products against these metrics.
• Accountable for understanding the costs of our products and working with our market-facing product management team to input into pricing strategies.
• Responsible for regularly communicating updates on progress, ensuring any issues are pro-actively managed.
• Be an active member of the Product leadership team, embodying the Modulr values and promoting the Product team and its activities both across the business and externally.

The Team 

In order to achieve our mission the team is made up of approximitely 10 engineers with a range of skills and experience which complement each other. We believe that in order to work most effectively in such a varied and ever changing technical landscape we need multidisciplinary people who are keen to learn and to lean on each other. Alongside technical delivery we also hold an evangelical role where we champion best practice and empowerment in our development teams. 

About you

You’ll be part of an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and above all passionate team. We would like you to display these same attributes and display proven knowledge of how you embed the principles of DevOps and SRE into everything you do. You'll thrive here when working on problems from identification to resolution and looking to automate to solve any recurring tasks or issues. You’re comfortable working in a scaling business, where time is critical, and things change on a regular basis.

You enjoy positively challenging the way things are done and want to join a business that is focused on constantly improving. You have well thought-out opinions about how technologies and toolsets can be used to create elegant solutions and are happy sharing these. You care about the quality and integrity of the outputs from your team and want to work with people who care. You can find the right balance of speed and accuracy when prioritising and take responsibility for seeing things through to a high standard. Above all we value passion and integrity, knowledge can be gained, tools learned, passion can’t be read and integrity can’t be certified.

The Ideal Candidate 

• Building, observing and scaling a highly available, 24x7 platform
• Experience working with AWS
• Experience with communicating with external teams and building strong relationships outside of your immediate team
• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
• Experience working with Kubernetes, preferably using AWS EKS
• Experience automating / maintaining CI/CD pipelines in a Linux, Apache, Java, PostgresSQL stack
• Experience working with Microservices architecture
• Experience of being an incident responder

What can Modulr offer you

You’ll be part of a cross disciplinary team(s), with co-workers located in Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam and/or India. We are friendly and sociable, challenging but rewarding. We want you to push yourself and for us to support you in your future as we scale up and grow. Our culture and values are putting you first and are about investing in your future.

• Share Options Incentive Scheme
• Company Bonus - the more successful we are together, the more company bonus we offer
• Flexible benefits - £1000 to spend on a variety of benefits for you to choose from which suit your lifestyle and needs
• Perkbox - enjoy freebies and discounts on many other products and services
• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) + your birthday off - choose which days you take off to relax and/or spend time with loved ones
• Learning Opportunities – on joining Modulr you will embark on our 3-day onboarding programme, called ModStart, to be equipped with the Modulr know-how and arm you with the tools you need to be successful from day 1! But, we don’t want your learning to stop there so we will continue to provide you with the tools and capabilities through our learning channels, platforms and Buddy allocation to allow you to grow and develop in Modulr.
• Modulr All hands - join your colleaguesfor our company wide events throughout the year
• Great workspace - Modulr thrives on innovation which is best done through in-person collaboration. This approach enables us to work together closely, exchange ideas, and create innovative solutions that drive our success. We ask our team members to be based in the office 4 or more days a week. We have state of the art offices located in WeWork in Edinburgh, ScaleSpace in London, and WeWork in Amsterdam.
• Bike to work scheme

ModInclusion 

We believe that by seeing Modulr, and the world, from all sorts of angles, we can make life better for all.​ We want you to know that the things that make you, you — like your identity, age, ability, and background — are things that we will always celebrate and support with open arms.  As such, we are keen to maximise the diversity of our workforce and actively encourage applications from anyone and everyone.

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