Remote software engineer

About Griffin Our culture and home life. The team The opportunity What success looks like
What you'll own

Your background

Functional programming - you've shipped production Clojure, Elixir, Erlang, Haskell, Scala, or Scheme in a professional setting, or you've built substantial personal projects that demonstrate deep functional programming experience

Fintech domain expertise - you've worked in payments, accounts, ledgers, or compliance where you've dealt with money movement, reconciliation, and regulatory requirements
What can we offer you?

Remote-first flexibility: Work from anywhere in the UK

Time off: 25 days’ holiday, bank holidays and a winter break (we shut down between Christmas and New Year)

Share options: Own a part of what we’re building together

Work from abroad: Up to 20 days a year

Pension: Auto-enrolment into our Penfold scheme

Insurance: Private medical with Bupa (including family cover) and life insurance with AIG

Wellbeing: 1:1 coaching and therapy session available through Oliva

Family leave: Enhanced parental leave with up to 6 months on full pay after two years’ service

AI tools: Everyone has a Claude subscription on us and access to other premium tools

Your setup: We’ll support you in creating a comfortable and effective WFH environment.

As a bank, we’re committed to maintaining the highest standards of security. This means that the successful candidate will need to complete background screening, and our offer will be conditional upon satisfactory review of these checks. This would include verification of right to work, criminal record, credit history, social media and professional reference checks.

How long will the process take?

Step 1: An initial phone call with our Talent Team for us to tell you more about Griffin and learn about your recent experience.

Step 2: A task based on what you’ll be doing on a day to day at Griffin.

Step 3: Meet your manager to talk through your experience and how that relates to the requirements.

Step 4: Meet with peers in your team for a more in-depth technical interview.

Step 5 : Culture and Founder interview: Learn more about this here.

How do I apply? We’re remote-first Under representation Griffin Bank Ltd request that recruitment agencies do not speculatively submit CVs to any employee or associate of our company unless explicitly asked to do so by a member of our Talent team. Any CVs sent to any member of our team on a speculative basis will not be recognised and we will not accept liability for any fee or commission should we subsequently employ a candidate who applied to us directly or was introduced by an instructed agency that may also have been submitted speculatively by an uninstructed agency.