Careers at FXcompared

The role

• You’ll play a key role in the building and ongoing development of industry-leading web applications, built on virtualized and cloud platforms
• Engineering elegant frontend experiences and building scalable backend services for both internal and external customers
• Supporting the implementation of continuous integration to enhance deployment processes
• Providing guidance and support to junior colleagues, while learning from and collaborating with more experienced colleagues
• You’ll write a lot of PHP & Javascript

What we’re looking for

• At least 3 years of development experience
• A positive attitude and willingness to learn
• Experience with React/JS and PHP
• Experience with Concrete5 or Symphony Framework
• Wordpress experience is a plus
• Good SQL experience is required
• Excellent communication skills

Responsibilities:

• Preparing management accounts, budgets and cash flows
• Prepare final year accounts
• Manage payables and receivables
• Execute payroll
• Prepare and submit VAT returns
• Reconcile bank statements and credit card statements

Nice to have:

• Experience in fintech
• Experience working with international companies and subsidiaries, especially the US

Qualifications and Experience

• ACA qualified
• Must have Quickbooks experience
• Proven record of working in a small or mid-sized UK firm of accountants, startup company and or SMEs
• Excellent communication skills - in person and written
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and Google Suite

The role

• Development of infrastructure through reusable code with automated tooling and tests
• Use of metrics and monitoring information to ensure performance and reliability
• Understand the complexities of working with multi-tier applications and capacity testing and scaling of distributed systems
• Delivery of new features and tooling for both business and technical stakeholders
• Work alongside your colleagues to resolve engineering problems and incidents
• Collaborate with technical teams to help define a platform for the future

What you will be doing in the role

• Automating - from build pipelines to brand new systems, you’ll have a passion for automation and continuous improvement
• Develop – Be an expert on the toolset. You will be working with Kubernetes, Kafka, ELK, Jenkins, git, AWS, Docker, Linux
• Operate – you’ll understand how applications and services run-in real-world production environments, whether it’s containers or virtual machines, on our own platform or in AWS, you’ll know how to keep them running smoothly.
• Scale and Resilience - you will know how to configure the infrastructure to cope with demand while still delivering maximum resilience
• Using your excellent communication skills, you’ll share knowledge and help your team make sound engineering decisions while embracing DevOps culture
• You’ll always be learning, improving your skills and the systems you work with
• You like nothing more than to watch colleagues flourish under your guidance