Founding Fullstack Engineer in London - SR2
Job Overview
Location
London, England
Job Type
Full Time
Salary
£150,000 - £150,000 Per Year
Date Posted
19 days ago
Additional Details
Job ID
100082816
Job Views
36
Job Description
Founding Full-Stack Engineer (Greenfield Digital Banking)
Central London | 4 days onsite | Full-time
£90,000 - £100,000 + 15-20% bonus
We're working with a highly successful, family-owned international private bank to hire a Founding Full-Stack Engineer for a brand new, greenfield digital banking build based in Central London.
This is a rare opportunity to join right at the beginning of a newly formed product team and help build a next-generation digital banking experience from first principles deliberately outside of legacy systems.
The environment is genuinely "startup-style" (small team, high ownership, fast delivery), but backed by serious scale, long-term investment, and a strong focus on quality, stability and client trust.
The role
As one of the first engineering hires, you'll play a key part in shaping:
Central London | 4 days onsite | Full-time
£90,000 - £100,000 + 15-20% bonus
We're working with a highly successful, family-owned international private bank to hire a Founding Full-Stack Engineer for a brand new, greenfield digital banking build based in Central London.
This is a rare opportunity to join right at the beginning of a newly formed product team and help build a next-generation digital banking experience from first principles deliberately outside of legacy systems.
The environment is genuinely "startup-style" (small team, high ownership, fast delivery), but backed by serious scale, long-term investment, and a strong focus on quality, stability and client trust.
The role
As one of the first engineering hires, you'll play a key part in shaping:
- the technical foundations
- engineering standards
- architecture and system design
- how the team builds and ships product
You'll work closely with Product and Design, delivering secure, high-quality digital experiences for high-value clients and complex workflows.
What you'll do
- Design, build and maintain end-to-end features across frontend and backend
- Architect scalable, secure and maintainable systems for private banking / institutional use cases
- Own key technical decisions, balancing delivery speed with long-term quality
- Build APIs, services, data models and modern web experiences
- Establish high standards of engineering quality through testing, reviews and automation
- Contribute to platform foundations, shared components and internal tooling
- Embed security, performance and resilience best practices into everything you ship
- Help define engineering standards and ways of working as the team grows
What we're looking for
- 8-12+ years' experience as a full-stack or senior engineer owning production systems
- Strong experience building modern web applications across frontend and backend
- Frontend expertise with modern frameworks (React, TypeScript or similar)
- Strong backend experience (Node.js, Java, Python or similar)
- Solid understanding of APIs, architecture, databases and cloud infrastructure
- Exposure to CI/CD and modern DevOps practices (containers, Kubernetes, automation)
- Comfortable being a technical owner in open-ended / ambiguous environments
- A builder mindset - pragmatic, delivery-focused, and quality-led
- Experience in financial services / fintech / regulated environments is beneficial but not essential
- Strong awareness of security, privacy and compliance considerations is highly valued
Why this opportunity stands out
- Genuine greenfield build with meaningful ownership from day one
- Founding hire in a small, high-calibre team
- Startup-style delivery with the backing of a global financial institution
- Direct access to decision-makers and influence over product direction
- Quality-first culture focused on trust, stability and long-term value
- Competitive salary + strong bonus + benefits
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