Position Overview
About Esenda Esenda powers over £1.5bn of inbound and outbound payments annually, in the education space - from tuition and catering fees to supplier payments and payroll.
We’re a revenue-generating startup with strong product-market fit, and we’re growing fast.
Design, build, and ship reliable backend services and APIs in Python (Flask) that power core product functionality.
Own features end-to-end: data modelling (Postgres), API design, testing, production rollout and ongoing improvements.
Help uphold strong engineering standards through thoughtful code reviews, testing discipline, clean architecture, and pragmatic decision-making.
Improve service reliability and operability: monitoring, alerting, logging, runbooks, and reducing on-call toil over time.
CI/CD improvements, incremental shipping, and maintaining a high-quality codebase.
You’ll join an on-call rotation (1 week in 4) compensation: paid as an extra £300 per on-call week.
5+ years experienc...