Thirdfort enables property and legal businesses to onboard individual and corporate clients securely, within minutes. We provide best-in-class Know Your Client, Anti-Money Laundering and Open Banking powered Source of Funds verification, packaged in a mobile app and web portal that will delight your clients and colleagues. We turn compliance into a competitive advantage with a beautifully secure client experience. With Thirdfort, professionals can automate a manual, disjointed, and cumbersome process that typically takes weeks, into one that takes minutes. Our team has grown tenfold since 2020 and now protects over 700 businesses so they and their clients can move fearlessly. We are FCA regulated, backed by founders of Zoopla, Funding Circle, ComplyAdvantage, Tessian, Fenergo, and Fidel and have raised £20m in capital from leading fintech investors, Breega and Element Ventures.

We’re on a mission to protect society from fraud and money laundering. We’ve already protected over 2 million people through life’s big transactions.

Fraud and regulation are rising, costing the UK economy over £100bn every year; this makes it more difficult for businesses to protect themselves and their clients - individuals like you and me - from fraud and money laundering.

Our co-founders Olly and Jack were led to this area when a friend was defrauded of £25K when buying their first property. At the time, anti-fraud technology didn’t exist, which meant that completing the anti-fraud checks required in these processes was largely manual. These big life moments should be exciting, but instead are often confusing and scary due to the painful process of completing these paper-based checks and the risk of fraud.

Thirdfort helps businesses to facilitate these anti fraud checks so that individuals know they can transact safely and seamlessly with professionals during these big transactions. Our anti-fraud platform provides a secure way for professionals in regulated sectors like Lawyers, Estate Agents and Accountants to transfer funds and verify sensitive information through app based document checks, facial recognition and open banking.

Over 1,500 businesses now trust Thirdfort to verify their clients. We are FCA regulated and have raised over $33m in capital from leading Fintech investors Breega and Element Ventures, as well as the founders of Zoopla, Funding Circle, Comply Advantage, Tessian, Fenergo and Fidel.

Engineering at Thirdfort

At Thirdfort, we’re working to build an outstanding engineering culture that empowers our team to do their best work. We have a culture which cultivates an honest and open environment, where everyone’s opinions are heard and valued.

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our Consumer team within the Engineering function and drive our efforts to build the consumer-facing side of our Client Due Diligence (CDD) platform vision. The hire will be an effective leader for technical projects, pragmatically suggesting and implementing solutions to immediate problems while mentoring other engineers and upholding the highest standards.

Our Product and Tech teams are remote first and so this individual can be based anywhere in the UK. This does not mean though that our remote first team aren’t welcome in our offices as we value the times when we can come together in person. Ultimately we trust our team to work in the way that suits them best.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will:

Lead on our strategy to build an industry-leading CDD platform, acting as a technical lead within the team building its consumer-facing side.

Collaborate closely with the Product Manager and Engineering Manager on the team’s roadmap, running technical investigations and discovery.

Mentor and elevate other engineers, as well as championing the Consumer team across the engineering function and liaising with the wider organisation including Product, Design and Consumer Support to aid development of our product.

Advocate for learning and proper usage of the new technologies, facilitating and leading by example on knowledge sharing and collaboration across the whole Engineering group.

Factor in security and privacy when crafting solutions and reviewing other engineers’ Pull Requests

Pragmatically suggest and implement solutions to immediate problems but consider the long-term implications of decisions with a view to ensure there is manageable amount and complexity of technical debt.

Role-model quality and encourage the rest of the department to embody this.

We’re looking for someone who:

Has significant experience building responsive, performant APIs while collaborating closely with consumers.

Has experience with / understands the core concepts of:

Cloud-based applications

Modern backend languages (experience with Go or strong desire to learn are desirable)

Modern CI/CD pipelines

Relational and non-relational databases

Enabling and maintaining 3rd party API integrations

Can independently & collaboratively craft testable solutions for backend features

Has experience working with both greenfield and legacy projects, identifying bottlenecks and suggesting improvements

Has worked effectively in a team with product owners, designers and other stakeholders

Cares deeply about the code quality of backend platforms and knows how to feedback to design with these in mind

Can communicate complex topics with stakeholders of varying technical ability and can generate buy in for new concepts

Has worked with internal APIs and understands how to influence teams building services the platform relies on

Has built and maintained tests suites for unit and integration tests

Has experience migrating or modernising systems to use new technologies or architectures

Studies show that women and other less represented groups are less likely to apply for roles unless they meet every requirement. We believe in building a diverse team, valuing different skills and experiences and so if you don’t think you have all the requirements listed here but feel this could be a role and environment you’d thrive in, we would still love for you to apply.

Life at Thirdfort:

Driven by our values, our culture promotes a collaborative and open environment where Thirdforters can take ownership, have impact, and feel empowered when it comes to their growth and development. We understand the importance of our teams wellbeing and recognise a one-size fits all approach rarely works, that’s why we aim to provide the flexibility individuals need to work in the way that suits them, and their families, best.

Our Benefits

We’ve created our benefits package to reflect Thirdfort’s mission and values. We place a strong focus on Security first given what we do, extending this to our team’s physical, mental and financial security to support them through their big life moments. Our benefits exist to empower our team, ensuring they feel supported and able to work in the way that enables them to do their best work.

When you join Thirdfort, you’ll get immediate access to our flexible employee benefits package that aims to support you across these areas:

Compensation - £90k - £110k p.a. base salary

Flexible Working Hours

Enhanced parental leave

Work from home allowance

Uncapped annual leave

Enhanced sick leave

Private healthcare with our provider, AXA

Regular company and team socials

Uncapped budget for personal development

Share options for all UK employees

Customisable wellness budget and discounts on well-known brands with our partner ThanksBen

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process, please let your dedicated Talent Manager know and we’ll do our best to accommodate.

We’re committed to building an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture where everyone has a chance to make a difference. We’re purposefully building a team of problem-solvers that reflect our values - which is why we hire from all backgrounds. If you're a curious, kind individual who takes ownership, you'll be a great Thirdforter.

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