OrbitRemit

We are striving to become a market leading money transfer service providing our customers with a seamless user experience when making international payments at the lowest cost.

Founded 2010
16-50 employees
  • Banking, Corporate Finance, & Investing
  • Headquarters address
    Unit 216, 22 Highbury Grove, N5 2ER

    Who we are and what we are looking for:

    We are a rapidly growing fintech business operating in the global remittance market-a market worth over $600 billion annually. We have been operating in the space since 2010 so have a proven track record and understand what our customers want.

    We are looking for engineers to join our expanding team. You will have solid experience in developing RESTful APIs and interfaces for high performing and reliable systems. You will help build new features, products and APIs for our platform and contribute towards continuously improving our current stack to help scale and support our growing customer base.

    We’re still a small company which means you will need to wear many hats in the beginning but it also means there are many interesting challenges ahead and areas that you can specialise in if you like.

    We have a flat structure which means you will work directly with everyone across the company, from customer support to compliance, product, finance. As a result, you will gain real insight into the business of international money transfer. We encourage an open and transparent working environment. You can get involved in any aspect of the business you are interested in, if it adds value to our company and our users.

    What you will work on:

    • Work with the engineering team to create new features, products and API’s that are maintainable, efficient, reliable and secure.
    • Contribute to and develop our existing products (external and internal) across the full stack of the OrbitRemit Platform, including our internal REST APIs.
    • Proactively finding and exploring better ways to improve the OrbitRemit platform to ensure it can scale to high customer demand, is efficient and always available.
    • Give input and collaborate with internal teams on how to improve our products and processes.

    About you:

    • Expert at problem solving with ability to work independently and plan your own solutions to problems.
    • Proven track record of building high performing and reliable code.
    • Create performant, clean and well documented code.
    • Passionate about technology, product and user experience.
    • Strong communication skills and ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
    • English as a working language.
    • You like the sound of the work we are doing.
    • You’re keen to learn more about new technologies and the inner workings of the international payments industry.
    • You’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity every day.
    • You’re interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software.

    Company values:

    • A sense of empathy is key to everything we do. As a customer-centric business we understand the process can sometimes be emotional and we are here to help.
    • We are not afraid to admit we were wrong or made a mistake. Humility is key to taking ownership should a problem arise.
    • We listen to what our customers want and attempt to provide them with the product features they require.

    Tech stack

    CakePHP, Lumen, PHP7, MySQL, Redis Javascript, NodeJS, RabbitMQ