Software Engineer at Runa

Software Engineer

Runa is pioneering a first-of-its-kind payment rail that enables the seamless, global money movement at scale. Legacy banking and payment infrastructure struggles to support the demands of today's low-volume, high-velocity payouts, leading to inefficiencies in global payouts. Businesses worldwide send over $20 trillion annually in rewards, remittances, and disbursements often incurring costs of up to 50% per transaction and subjecting recipients to lengthy delays.

Runa transforms this landscape by providing a new digital payments infrastructure that empowers businesses to send digital money instantly and cost-free to anyone, anywhere. The Runa API empowers thousands of businesses to make payments to 5 billion+ consumers in 190+ countries instantly to cards, wallets, bank accounts and gift cards. Leading companies such as Sodexo, TopCashback, Perkbox, Sweatcoin, Coinbase, and Globetopper rely on Runa to facilitate instant, flexible global payouts to tens of millions of consumers.

The Role

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for producing clean, scalable, and reusable code. You’ll help deliver products which will have a big impact on our customers. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to architecture and take ownership and accountability of parts of the product.

Our Tech

We have Python and TypeScript services running across Kubernetes (EKS) and Lambda functions. Our persistence is largely Aurora (Postgres) but new services will also be leveraging DynamoDB and their event triggers.

However, we understand the dynamic nature of technology and recognize that skills in any programming language is a valuable asset, which is why we are open to engineers from any programming background.

What Excites You

• The opportunity to work within a super talented engineering team on a heavily used, API driven product

• Contributing towards the development of features and new services from end to end, as we continue to scale our product.

• Writing code that is clear, concise, well tested, and easy to understand. Using modern technology like AWS serverless infrastructure and events driven microservice architecture

• Contributing towards product changes made, ensuring successful deployment as well as bug fixes and improvement

What Excites Us

• 3+ years of experience in a Software Engineering role in a product company

• Familiarity with any server side programming language like Python, Java, C#, Ruby, GoLang, JavaScript with the motivation to work with Python/Javascript moving forward.

• A passion for software engineering best practice, and delivering well tested, high performant and quality code.

• Software Engineers that are keen to master their craft and take the opportunity to grow, develop and learn as part of a high performing software engineering team.

• A genuine interest in keeping up to date with the latest trends, technologies and tools in the software engineering space

Even if you do not meet all of the above requirements but still think you would be a good fit for the role we would still encourage you to apply.

What’s in it for you

🏢 We have a hybrid structure with the requirement of 1-2 day a week at our London Office (Shoreditch)

📚£1,000 annual L&D allowance to invest in mastering your craft, including accredited studies. Plus 5 L&D days per year

🌴 25 days holiday + public holidays

🔋 Runa Reset Days - Runa closes on the first Friday of each quarter for a well-deserved, Reset Day

☀️ Summer Hours - In the month of August, we log off at 3pm on Fridays.

🗺️ Work from anywhere for up to 45 calendar days a year

🚀 Participation in the Employee Options pool giving you ownership in Runa

🚑 Private Medical + Dental Health Insurance with Bupa

👶 Enhanced parental leave for all new parents, up to 16 weeks full pay

💷 We are currently working towards salary transparency however we are not there just yet so our talent team will discuss this during the initial call to ensure that the right expectations are given.

Want to learn more about life at Runa and our hiring process? Visit our Candidate Hub: https://runahq.notion.site/runa-candidate-hub

The Interview Process

1. Call with Talent Partner ☎️

2. System Design Interview 🛠️

3. Coding Interview 💻

4. Values Interview 🌟

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to providing a hiring and working experience in which all people feel they are equally respected and valued regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.