Staff Engineer - L7

Description

Curve was founded with a rebellious spirit, and a lofty vision; to truly simplify your finances, so you can focus on what matters most in life.

That’s why Curve puts your finances simply at your fingertips, so you can make smart choices on how to spend, send, see and save your money. We help you control your financial life, so you can go out and live the life you want to live.

With Curve you can spend from all your accounts, track spend behaviour and provide insights, and security to protect you from fraud. For the first time giving you bright insights and control of all your money in one beautiful place.

We’re developing a ground-breaking product with our customers at the core. Our user base is growing rapidly and we have exceptional metrics. We have funding from the leading names in tech investment, and a visionary leadership team who wants everyone who joins this remarkable adventure, to have the autonomy to masterfully develop their expertise.

Welcome to Curve. On a mission to help you live inspired.

💡 Role Purpose:

At Curve, we obsess about our customers through innovating and working iteratively to solve problems in the world of money that aren’t being tackled by conventional banking.

The purpose of the Staff Engineer is to take a proactive and leading role in designing and realising the technical architecture across a Group, taking into consideration commercial impact, alignment to wider technology strategy and business objectives.

You will lead architectural discussions within the Group and contribute to the wider technology strategy across the organisation, ensuring decisions are well governed and engineering have the technical coaching and mentorship required.

🔑 What you’ll be doing:

Solid understanding of security principles and best practices across platforms

Exposure to complex domain architectures (e.g., payments, financial services, large-scale consumer platforms)

🎯 What success looks like here:

• Drives the design and delivery of technical architecture across the Group, ensuring alignment with business strategy and measurable commercial impact.
• Champions and enforces best-in-class architectural practices across teams, ensuring consistent adoption of Domain-Driven Design, Event-Driven Architectures, and Distributed Systems.
• Partners with Product Managers and VP, Engineering & CISO to assess feasibility and risk, making informed decisions that balance flexibility, expediency, and scalability.
• Successfully builds and scales large concurrent systems that are performant, reliable, and resilient, demonstrating measurable impact on production stability and system efficiency.
  
  

🎈 Benefits:

• 25 days plus bank holidays
• Bonus days off for Learning & Development, Mental Wellbeing, Birthday, Moving House & Christmas
• Working abroad policy (up to 60 calendar days per year)