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 Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, implementing and deploying software services from end to end. You’ll produce clean, scalable, and reusable code to build products which will have a big impact on our customers.
You will have the opportunity to work with a modern stack and serverless cloud infrastructure whilst guiding and mentoring more junior engineers in the team.
Our Tech
We have Python, TypeScript, and Javascript services running mostly on Lambda functions. We use Step Functions extensively to orchestrate our workflows. Our persistence layer is largely Aurora (Postgres), DynamoDB, MemoryDB (Redis), and Timestream.
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
Contributing towards the design, delivery and deployment of large scale, complex projects which are used heavily by thousands of people with high throughput.
Using modern technology like AWS serverless infrastructure and events driven microservice architecture
Mentoring more junior members of the team to help support their growth and development and help scale the team by leading on technical interviews.
Being a subject matter expert on technology and domain-specific problems, and taking ownership of software services from end to end.
Improving responsiveness and overall performance of our web services.
What Excites Us
Around 5+ years of Software Engineering experience architecting and developing new services and features from end to end.
The ability to take ownership of design and architecture of large scale systems and developing API heavy software solutions without the need for guidance.
A passion for promoting software engineering best practice, guiding and mentoring more junior engineers to deliver clean, scalable, and reusable code.
Proactively contributing to the continual improvement of our engineering processes
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 3 days 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.
The Interview Process
Call with Talent Lead ☎️
System Design Interview 🛠️
Coding Interview 💻
Values Interview 🌟
Want to learn more about life at Runa and our hiring process? Visit our Candidate Hub: https://runahq.notion.site/runa-candidate-hub
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.
Skills Required
- Around 5+ years of software engineering experience architecting and developing services end-to-end
- Proven ability to take ownership of design and architecture of large-scale, API-heavy systems without guidance
- Experience with AWS serverless infrastructure (Lambda) and AWS Step Functions; event-driven microservice architecture
- Experience coding in Python, TypeScript, and JavaScript
- Experience with persistence technologies: Amazon Aurora (Postgres), DynamoDB, MemoryDB (Redis), and Timestream
- Experience improving responsiveness and performance of web services and high-throughput systems
- Experience mentoring junior engineers and participating in technical interviews
- Passion for and practice of software engineering best practices and continual process improvement
What We Do
Runa is pioneering a first-of-its-kind payment rail capable of sending and accepting digital value at scale. With Runa, companies can pay the people they serve in any form of digital value, anywhere, instantly. Legacy payment mechanisms struggle to adapt to low-volume, high-velocity transactions both locally and globally, such as sending payouts to gig workers, creators, or sending rewards to customers or employees wherever they are. Runa’s infrastructure and network facilitates payouts to these recipients, helping businesses expand their reach, retain their users while modernizing the way in which they manage and transfer money: instantly, internationally, and free of charge for the senders and the recipient. Operating in more than 30 countries and 18 currencies, hundreds of leading companies rely on Runa to power instant, flexible global payouts including Sodexo, TopCashback, Perkbox, Vodafone, Coinbase and Globetopper. 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.
