Mintago is an innovative financial wellbeing platform that helps both employers and their employees with their financial health. We are on a mission to help both employers and employees live happier and financially healthier lives. Mintago is a young company scaling post Series A funding. There is great demand for our product and we are excited to partner with the best employers in the market to bring financial wellbeing to millions of people.

About The Role

Join Mintago as a Backend Developer to build high-performance NodeJS services, collaborate with teams, and influence technology in a fast-paced, secure environment. Mintago is looking for a talented Senior Backend Developer to join our growing team. As part of our innovative company, you will have the opportunity to work on building high-performance NodeJS services utilising cutting-edge technologies and frameworks, all underpinned with TypeScript.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with our frontend developers, product owners, and other stakeholders to deliver scalable and reliable solutions. If you are passionate about backend development and eager to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where your contributions will make a significant impact, we would love to hear from you.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Develop our backend services: You’ll be responsible for delivering high-performant APIs which are key to delivering our product vision.
• Leading technical discussions: You will be instrumental to Mintago’s technical decisions, influencing technology selection, architectural changes and pushing the boundaries of engineering.
• Collaborating cross-functionally: You will work closely with the product and engineering team to create features that delight our users.

Skills We’d Like You To Have

• Expert JavaScript engineer with a strong understanding of TypeScript.
• Professional experience building REST APIs using NodeJS.
• Production experience working with AWS and Kubernetes.
• You consider unit testing a key part of software delivery.
• A drive to collaborate with the team and share your opinions to push our technology forwards.

Why Join Mintago?

Mintago is an innovative financial wellbeing platform that helps both employers and their employees with their financial health. We are on a mission to help both employers and employees live happier and financially healthier lives. One in four UK workers reported to the CIPD that money worries have affected their ability to do their job. We believe that pension wellbeing and financial literacy are crucial for a happy retirement, which will ultimately mean a more productive workforce, a more positive workplace culture and increased savings for the employer.

Requirements

• Professional experience building REST APIs using NodeJS
• Production experience working with AWS and Kubernetes
• Expert JavaScript engineer with a strong understanding of TypeScript

Required Skills

• NodeJS
• TypeScript
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Backend programming
• Building scalable systems
• Cloud Security
• Data Security Principles
• Agile
• Financial Services
• JavaScript
• REST APIs
• Unit testing
• Collaboration

Benefits

• Your choice of work kit (ThinkPad or MacBook Pro)
• Hybrid work (2 days in office)
• Budget for equipment to set up your home office
• A flexible company discretionary unlimited leave policy + your birthday off
• Flexible company hours
• A £300 yearly budget for your own learning and development
• Mintago matches your pension contributions up to 4%
• Private medical insurance (provided by Vitality)
• Life insurance (provided by MetLife)
• Cash plan (provided by Medicash)
• Access to retail & travel discounts
• Access to salary sacrifice benefits across cycle to work, mobile, gym, tech, groceries and EV
• Many other perks added as requested

Salary: 60000 - 77000 GBP