About the Role
We are looking for a Full Stack Developer who is passionate about building scalable, high-quality web applications. You will be responsible for developing both front-end and back-end components, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and delivering seamless user experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain web applications across front-end and back-end systems
• Design, build, and optimize scalable APIs and databases
• Collaborate with product, design, and other stakeholders to define and implement new features
• Ensure application performance, quality, and responsiveness
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role
• Strong proficiency in front-end technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, or Angular)
• Experience with back-end languages (e.g., Node.js, Python, Java, or PHP)
• Familiarity with databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and web services
• Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git)
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail

About the Role

The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team architects, builds, and maintains the rock-solid infrastructure that applications rely on. We work closely with development teams to ensure scalability, reliability, and efficiency. This collaboration empowers us to deliver exceptional customer experiences while enabling developers to focus on building great features.

What You Will Do

• Deploy, automate, maintain, and manage various cloud-based and on-premises production systems.
• Understanding the high-level overview of our architecture, and possessing the ability to systematically document new and existing requirements to ensure a smooth project delivery without miscommunication.
• Work closely with the Information security and infrastructure team in ensuring that we are adopting security best practices.
• Ensuring the availability, performance, scalability, and security of productions systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve system issues across platform and application domains.
• Suggest architectural improvements and recommend process optimizations.
• Evaluate new technologies to enhance the infrastructure stack.
• Ensuring system security policies are properly remediated.
• Drive and implement automated provisioning and scaling of servers, along with testing and compliance checks using automation tools.
• Handle operational tasks, including on-call duties, alerts, and incident management.

What We Are Looking For

• At least 2 years of engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., IT, Computer Science) or a proven track record in DevOps.
• A strong willingness to continuously upgrade skills and stay up-to-date with the latest DevOps trends.
• Experience with cloud-native tools (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, Nginx, OpenTelemetry) is a plus.
• Experience managing cloud servers (AWS, GCP).
• A desire to transition into engineering management is a valued addition.
• Experience with on-premises physical servers, databases, and storage solutions (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis) is a plus, as well as familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, Pulumi).

About us: 

Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.

Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.

Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.

The role in a nutshell:

We're building teams to help us succeed in our mission to upgrade the world to a better financial system. As an Backend Engineer, you’ll be joining a group of highly motivated software engineers who you’ll work collaboratively with across our pods.

As a fast-growing company with offices around the world, you’ll immediately see how your contributions directly impact both our internal users and client experience. Many of the problems we are solving result in trail blazing solutions which can’t be found on Stack Overflow; so we’re looking for engineers who flourish working in a complex domain.

Your mission will be:

• Build distributed microservices that are accessed by 10m customers from across the globe.
• Design, build and maintain advanced applications services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Write testable, maintainable code for robustness and reliability.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Write code that directly affects users, the company and the Crypto ecosystem.

A little about you:

• A proven background in computer science in areas such as algorithms, data structures, and software design.
• Previous experience working within Crypto or Blockchain based technologies. 
• Extensive programming experience in Backend based technologies. Go(lang) is preferable.  
• A continuous improvement mindset.
• BSc/MSc/PhD in computer science or other technical discipline, or equivalent working experience.
• To be friendly, transparent, articulate and driven to succeed.

Don’t be put off if you don’t tick all of the boxes – they’re a guide based on what we’d love to see 

What stack we work on:

• Kotlin, Swift & Angular
• Go(lang), gRPC
• Kubernetes (EKS), Docker
• CloudFlare, CloudFront, nginx
• MySQL (RDS), Redis (ElastiCache), etc
• Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Jenkins

Life at Luno:

• Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
• Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
• Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
• Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
• 6 months primary care-giver leave
• Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
• Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service! 
• A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts
• Free lunch and snacks
• 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*

*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.