Staff Software Engineer

money.co.uk is a financial comparison service, part of RVU group. The Financial Services team builds web apps and back office systems for financial products across multiple brands. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to contribute across the full stack, leveraging TypeScript, React, Node.js on AWS/Kubernetes, and driving AI adoption.

• Work closely with business leads, commercial managers, ops executives, product managers, data analysts, designers, and engineers to solve business problems with software.
• Contribute across the full stack: infrastructure, databases, pipelines, servers, CDNs, web UIs, monitoring, and performance analysis.
• Build responsive accessible React components aligned with the design system.
• Work with APIs, real-time metrics, alerting, and databases.
• Keep applications secure.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and conduct code reviews.
• Ensure solutions are properly tested with focus on best practices and quality assurance.
• Work closely with AI as a development tool and business enabler; find new ways to leverage AI and evangelise AI adoption.
• Support and improve the engineering team's delivery and technical expertise.
• Define and maintain best practices; shape the future of Financial Services within RVU.

• Technical expert who will be a multiplier for the team.
• Full stack role: comfortable building cloud-native scalable applications and styling responsive React components.
• Experience from building MVPs through to large scale production systems; pragmatic decision-making.
• Ability to identify friction points and improvements with business value.
• Growth mindset, keen to learn and explore.
• Proven ability to debug large complex systems.
• Keep abreast of industry developments; assess new libraries, technologies, tools, and approaches, especially AI.
• Strong TypeScript skills.
• Deep knowledge of Node ecosystem (node, npm, yarn); familiarity with Bun desirable.
• Proficient with AI tooling including CLI/editor-based LLM agents and MCP servers.
• Solid understanding of React paradigm (one-way data binding, declarative programming, rules of hooks, anti-patterns).
• Practical experience of software engineering principles (separation of concerns, design patterns, domain-driven design).
• Familiarity with container-based cloud-native applications and architectural patterns (REST APIs, message passing, scaling, load balancing).
• Knowledge of web security concerns (SQL injection, XSS, CORS, cookies, authentication/authorisation).
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: Kubernetes, Prometheus, Argo workflows, GitHub Actions, Elasticsearch/Opensearch, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, DBT data pipelines, Fastly, Storybook, component libraries and design systems, Builder.io, Bun.

• 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews.
• Hybrid working with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 'work from anywhere' days per year.
• Employer-matching pension contributions up to 7.5%.
• One-off £300 'work from home' budget.
• Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption leave policy.
• 25 days holiday (increasing to 30) + 2 'my time' days per year.
• Private medical cover, critical illness cover, and employee assistance programme.
• Healthy learning and training budget.
• Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes.
• Free in-office gym accessible 7 days a week.
• Free breakfast in the office daily.
• Choice of Mac or Windows technology.
• Free access to Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health.
• Regular events from team socials to company-wide events.