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Acre is rebuilding the UK’s £1.4 trillion mortgage market from the ground up, with a completely new, end-to-end management system for mortgages.

Our platform cuts out the unnecessary admin, pain and friction from buying a home. We're covering the entire journey, from figuring out what you can borrow, to getting your keys. We're guided both by the voice of real home buyers and by our close relationships with brokers, lenders and insurers, through our exclusive broker distribution agreement representing over £40 billion in mortgage lending each year. We won’t stop until the process of buying, mortgaging, conveyancing, and insuring your home is affordable and completely seamless.

Our user base is constantly growing, and we are now looking to expand the team. Join our engineering team to help change the way people buy homes.

The Role

We are looking for a Graduate Backend Engineer that wants to help build to help make the home buyer process better. Your role will be to work closely with other engineers and broader teams on the data management, exchange and analysis that is central to the home-buying process. You will be highly motivated, be technology agnostic, and be passionate and proud of the work you produce.

What you’ll be doing

As a key role within the engineering team you will be responsible for the design, implementation and testing of the backend components that empowers consumers, brokers and operational functions to efficiently manage the mortgage research and application process.

  • You will be expected to write reusable, testable and efficient code that is performant, stable and secure
  • During our software development life cycle, you will be expected to work with the business as a whole, converting business requirements into development tasks as well as mentoring other team members
  • You should be ambitious but also pragmatic when needed

Who you will be

  • Passionate about software engineering and about delivering a quality product
  • Have an understanding and experience with backend technologies such as Go or C++
  • Committed to using automated testing platforms and unit tests to deliver readable, maintainable code
  • Have an understanding of deployment technologies and concepts
  • Have an understanding of issue management, code versioning, continuous integration and deployment tools

What we offer

  • Competitive salary
  • Chance to make an impact within a fully funded, early-stage Fintech start-up in a unique position to make a difference to the mortgage market
  • One weeks free accommodation for those relocating
  • 25 days leave
  • Private healthcare, a cash plan, pension contribution
  • Cycle to work scheme

We’re looking for people that will get stuck in and make a difference. We have a great collaborative, entrepreneurial team that are passionate about what they do. If you want to join a team that is tackling a big problem space, then we’d love to hear from you.