We want to hire ambitious, and value-adding talent into Modulr, one of the fastest growing payments businesses in the UK and Europe. Modulr is experiencing significant growth, and in this role you will work in a cross-functional team who are asked to solve a problem, rather than be handed a task to do. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a high-growth environment with a fast-paced and collaborative culture where you will have great opportunities to work on challenging problems.
About us
At Modulr, our vision is a world where all businesses are powered by embedded payments. Modulr enables businesses, from SMEs to Enterprise, initially across the UK and Europe to efficiently pay-in, collect and disburse funds instantly via a range of payment schemes, accounts, and card products.
We have created an industry-leading API platform with comprehensive online tools and access, to meet the demands of daily business payments. We have two routes to market. Our Core Business Payments product allows customers in any sector to connect to us and our expanding network of accounting and payroll platforms, including Sage, Xero, BrightPay and IRIS to automate payments. Our Vertical Solutions targets a growing range of industry verticals which directly connect their IT platforms to our APIs and webhooks. We solve complex payment problems for hundreds of clients in a range of industries, including Travel, Lending, Wage Advance, and Investment & Wealth.
We are deeply integrated into the payment eco-system. In the UK, we are direct participants of Faster Payments and Bacs. Modulr hold settlement accounts at the Bank of England. Our payment network connectivity includes CHAPS, Open Banking, SEPA, SWIFT and account issuance in multiple currencies. We are principal issuing members of Visa and Mastercard schemes across UK and Europe.
Our regulatory permissions and governance structure are the foundations of our business. We are regulated and supervised as an Authorised Electronic Money Institution (AEMI) in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority and in the Netherlands by De Nederlandsche Bank.
Our founding team has a wealth of experience in the payments industry and growing successful businesses. Modulr is backed by the venture arms of payments giants PayPal and FIS, as well as growth investors Blenheim Chalcot, General Atlantic, Frog Capital and Highland Europe.
Modulr now has over 400 employees spread globally across offices in London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Mumbai and Pune.
Modulr values
•Building the extraordinary; going that extra mile.
•Owning the opportunity; be passionate and proud of the time you invest.
•Move at pace; reach goals faster whilst supported on your career journey.
•Achieve it together, working collaboratively and being a Modulite.
The Team
At Modulr we are focused on building autonomous squads that are focused on working in
the best possible way. We operate in a tribes and squad model with each area focused on
a particular growth area. Each squad is small and cross-functional. We have big ambitions and have many interesting challenges ahead.
Summary
In this role you will work in a cross-functional team who are asked to solve a problem, rather than be handed a task to do. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a high-growth environment with a fast-paced and collaborative culture where you will have great opportunities to work on challenging problems. In Customer Experience, we live and breathe the customer!
From creating aspirational world-class onboarding processes, helping our customers manage their money with our amazing Customer Portal, to connecting our customers to where their transactions live in our third-party accountancy integrations – we’re responsible for making our customers’ lives easier.
With a rich and ambitious roadmap, it’s a great time to join Customer Experience and help us shape our growth in Accounts Payable and Payroll!
Key Responsibilities
•Design, develop, and maintain full-stack Java Spring Boot/Angular/ReactJS application components involving Microservices, REST APIs, relational databases.
•Collaborate with Product Management, UI/UX Designers, Architects, peer engineers and other stakeholders to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
•Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability and best practices. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
•Design clean, well-documented RESTful APIs and service contracts
•Work with relational data stores, especially PostgreSQL, and contribute to data modelling.
•Improve system performance, reduce latency, and identify bottlenecks across services.
•Build systems with strong observability—logs, metrics, tracing—ensuring issues can be diagnosed quickly.
•Use and improve deployment pipelines and operational tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS services).
•Contribute to internal frameworks, shared libraries, and engineering best practices.
•Help shape the evolution of our platform toward a more flexible, modern architecture.
•Work in an agile environment, contributing to planning, design discussions, and iterative delivery.
•Collaborate across squads to shape technical solutions that span multiple systems.
•Mentoring, knowledge transfer, supporting and upskilling other engineers.
•Responding to and troubleshooting production issues and continuously learning from them, so we can build better and more reliable software for the future.
About you
You’re an engineer who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and enjoys solving complex, system-level problems. You bring:
•Expertise in both Frontend (Javascript (ES6)/Typescript & Angular) and Backend (Java, Spring Boot & Hibernate) development
•Strong understanding of HTML and CSS/SCSS
•Experience in designing, building and maintaining RESTful APIs.
•Demonstrated ability to work with Microservices architecture.
•Proven knowledge of DevOps practices and processes (including CI/CD and IaC), with the ability to streamline development processes and enhance operational efficiency
•Strong understanding of testing methodologies (TDD & BDD) including unit, integration and acceptance testing
•Previous experience managing/mentoring multi-site technical teams in an agile environment.
•Proven experience in software development and technical team leadership, with a strong understanding of engineering practices and processes.
•Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in managing code reviews, conducting performance reviews and providing feedback.
•As a strong problem-solver, you have the ability to apply analytical, critical thinking to identify key solutions.
ModInclusion
At Modulr, we are working hard to build a more positive diverse and inclusive culture that helps everyone to feel they belong and can truly bring their whole self to work. Not only is it the right thing to do for everyone in the Modulr team, it’s also the right thing to do for our business, the community we operate in and attracting future talent. As part of our approach, we actively welcome applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds.
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