Origin Markets

Origin connects investment banks with large companies around the world, re-inventing the borrowing process.

Founded 2015
1-15 employees
  • Banking, Corporate Finance, & Investing
  • Headquarters address
    Great Guildford Business Square, 30 Great Guildford St, London, SE1 9EP

    What we do

    We help banks automate many of the manual, unstructured processes involved in bond issuance, allowing them to reduce cost and increase efficiency, while at the same time helping borrowers connect with more banks around the world to diversify their funding base.

    Our platform is already being used by over 20 banks and 80 major financial institutions, SSAs & corporates across the globe and we are set to grow swiftly through 2019.

    We created the company after having spent too long on the trading floor watch technology change and disrupt all aspects of our lives except our day-to-days. We started off in the Barclays Techstars accelerator for fintech startups 4 years ago and haven't looked back since.

    Engineering at Origin

    We're a team of 13 currently (of which 1 is based in Hong Kong), on the tech side it's our CTO (who is hand-on with product) + 2 backend + 3 frontend + 1 product. We also have a few offshore QA resources. We're python django and Angular1/7, hosted on AWS and we've started using docker for newer projects but very early on that topic.

    We're at an interesting inflexion point with the business where we're looking to carve out side-products built using the components of the technology we've already built so that's very exciting, but also brings a bunch of devops challenges.

    We have very extensive back-end and front-end tests and are passionate about writing the highest possible quality code/features. Sure we have sometimes had to rush things out without full test coverage, but we always follow-up with them quickly. It's really one of our strongest beliefs and anyone who joins needs to be on the same wavelength.

    From a company culture perspective we've got a great setup, really friendly vibe. The team is very international, we enjoy going for drinks, doing escape rooms etc. We've start doing a bi-annual offsite trip too! We took the team to Menorca recently which was awesome!

    Who we look for

    • Someone with a strong focus on code quality
    • Someone with a good sensitivity to business requirements and product
    • Someone who will enjoy an enviroment focused on feature development and architecture, with a mentor/mentee culture.

    Tech stack

    Django, Python, PostgreSQL, Bootstrap, AngularJS, AWS, Celery, Git, Docker, Angular 2

    Benefits

    Compensation and retirement

    Stock Options
    Pension plan

    Vacation and time off

    Paid holidays
    Work from home flexibility
    Maternity benefits

    Personal development

    Job training
    Conferences reimbursement

    Values and quality of life

    Bike parking
    Snacks and beverages
    Games and recreation
    Showers
    Origin Markets - Big spacious office
    Origin Markets - Meeting area