Senior Software Engineer

About us

Technology, academia and venture capital have collided to create enormous value in the last 50 years. But many people and problems have been left behind.

We are aiming to solve this, by making launching and investing in venture capital funds and syndicates more efficient than ever before. We want to empower individuals and communities globally to build and invest in companies the world needs.

We founded Odin in September 2020 and recently closed a pre-seed round with Haatch Ventures, Chrometec, IPQ Capital and angels like Jelle Prins (first designer/ product manager @ Uber), Sarah Drinkwater (Atomico Angel, ex head of Google Campus), Kirsten Connell (VP Octopus Ventures, ex-GM Seedcamp), Björn Wagner (co-founder of Parity and Polkadot), Matt Penneycard (co-founder of Ada Ventures), Jimmy Furland (exited founder, early investor in Bitpay and Kraken), and many more amazing founders, operators and VC's (as angels) from the European venture ecosystem and further afield.

Since launching in private beta in Aug '21, we have grown 30+% month on month, and have already helped investors deploy more than $20m since.

Join us to build Capitalism 2.0

We have a lovely office in London, just off Exmouth Market. Half of our team are based outside of the UK, and we will continue to hire exceptional team members within a 1-hour time difference.

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in setting and building the culture of the engineering team.
• Mentor the more junior members of the team, giving regular, constructive feedback.
• Pair programme regularly, to facilitate continuous learning and knowledge exchange within the team.
• Bring your learnings gained from previous experiences to improve our processes, working as a team to increase velocity and reduce technical debt.
• Work with the Front-end team to design and build RESTful APIs, conforming to the OpenAPI spec
• Perform code reviews on GitHub and introduce best practices to ensure the team delivers high-quality, appropriately tested code.
• Translate complex business needs into granular technical implementation.
• Interview future members of the team.
• Architect systems, building for reliability and security from inception to execution.
• Write thoroughly well-tested code to deliver new features that delight our users, big and small.
• Integrate with third-party tools to handle everything from authentication to payment initiation, KYC/AML and wallets.

You

• 5+ years relevant experience;
• 2+ years experience working with Golang;
• Kind, empathetic, patient, humble, receptive to feedback;
• Curious, willing to learn, always cares about the "why", not just "how";
• You love collaborating with and mentoring team members, while also sharing practical knowledge and trends;
• Have worked in an environment that actively encourages people to speak up and challenge each other, whilst understanding the importance of "disagree and commit".
• Rigour in high code quality, automated testing, and another engineering best practices;
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills;
• Experience working in a CI/CD environment;
• Excellent communication skills; Proactive in communicating with the rest of the team;

Nice to have

• Strong understanding of BDD and DDD, practical experience a bonus;

Technology stack:

This is what we use on a day-to-day basis. We don't expect you have experience in all of these.

• Go / Golang
• React
• TypeScript
• AWS
• Postgres

- Docker

✅ Benefits and renumeration

• Flexible hours
• 25 days paid holiday, excluding public holidays
• Competitive salary
• Laptop assigned, Mac or Dell (Windows)
• Parental Leave
• £1000 Learning & wellness budget
• Generous options package
• London office just off Exmouth Market

🤲 Values

Customer obsession

We prioritise the customer experience above all else. This means as a team, we always go the extra mile for the customer, and remember they are always right!

Commitment to excellence

Always be asking yourself “Is this the best I can do? Am I proud of this?”

This is not a place to “move fast and break things”. We operate in a space (managing money) where details and reputation matter a lot. This means we should only ship things we’re proud of and hold ourselves to the very highest standards.

Focus

Most value comes from doing a few things well. Multitasking is a myth.
As a company, we are always pushing in one direction. The organisation is focused on one big thing at a time. As individuals, we focus on the highest priority task that delivers on the organisation’s key objective.

Radical candour

We value open, honest feedback delivered with kindness. Feedback is the only way to achieve true personal growth. You are not objective enough about yourself to grow effectively without external feedback. Giving and receiving feedback is hard; it often triggers painful emotions. The alternative, though, is failure.

Application process

Send [email protected] an email introducing yourself, with an up-to-date CV or your LinkedIn.