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Comment · 8 months ago
Griffin Bank | Engineering | REMOTE (UK) Company: We are Griffin Bank. We are a fully authorized, API-first bank; we bank fintechs and startups. We built our own core banking system from scratch.
Experience: We are hiring across broadly across engineering. The things we work on include onboarding and KYC, payments rails, accounting, billing and reporting. We are hiring backend and frontend engineers. We are currently about 80 people, with 30 of them in engineering.
Tech: Clojure, FoundationDB, Bazel, CLJS, Svelte
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/griffin/c8eaae48-e84f-4dae-8c34-099...
Comment · 10 months ago
The Clojure version is not AOT'd, so it's measuring startup + compiler time. When properly compiled it should be comparable to the Java implementation.
Comment · 11 months ago
It's fairly strictly enforced. The reason is that in many jurisdictions, you can accidentally create employment tax liability by working remotely for too long in the country.
Comment · 11 months ago
Griffin Bank UK uses it for our entire system (https://griffin.com)
Comment · 11 months ago
Griffin Bank | Engineering | REMOTE (UK)
Company: We are Griffin Bank. We are a fully authorized, API-first bank; we bank fintechs and startups. We built our own core banking system from scratch.
Experience: We are hiring across broadly across engineering. The things we work on include onboarding and KYC, payments rails, accounting, billing and reporting. We are hiring backend and frontend engineers. We are currently about 80 people, with 30 of them in engineering.
Tech: Clojure, FoundationDB, Bazel, CLJS, Svelte
Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/griffin/8d98eb78-e281-4860-b578-fc1...
Comment · 1 year ago
Griffin Bank | Engineering | REMOTE (UK)
Company: We are Griffin Bank. We are a fully authorized, API-first bank; we bank fintechs and startups. We built our own core banking system from scratch.
Experience: We are hiring across broadly across engineering. The things we work on include onboarding and KYC, payments rails, accounting, billing and reporting. We are hiring backend, frontend and design system engineers. We are currently about 80 people, with 30 of them in engineering.
Tech: Clojure, FoundationDB, Bazel, CLJS, Svelte
Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/griffin/8d98eb78-e281-4860-b578-fc1...
Comment · 2 years ago
Clojure does have stateful quickcheck library now: https://github.com/griffinbank/test.contract
Parallel testing is interesting, but hasn't been a large source of pain yet.
Comment · 3 years ago
We could in theory bank other banks, but that's not our focus. Our current customers are mostly regulated non-bank financial institutions, E-Money and Client money. As an American analogy, think Square Cash, Venmo, Paypal.
Longer term our aspiration is to also be the business bank for technology companies e.g. Apple or AirBnb or Uber. Currently Goldman is a big player in that space.
Comment · 3 years ago
It is a tall order, but but it's doable. The most important thing is to reduce the surface area of your application. Our business logic is almost entirely pure. The 'procs' have no side effects, except for things that happen on the other side of a clojure protocol (java interface). That means all side effects can be stubbed out during tests.
Our "user" code has no access to threading libraries. Threading happens in "kernel" code.
Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc for a good example of how this has already been done in practice.
Comment · 3 years ago
What is the performance problem?
Comment · 4 years ago
Griffin (https://www.griffin.sh) | UK, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Portugal, Estonia | Full-time | Remote | Engineering
We're a new Banking as a Service provider (think AWS for financial services) currently seeking authorisation to become an API-first, fully regulated UK bank.
We believe that in the future, most financial innovation will happen outside banks rather than inside them, and Griffin will be the platform that all future fintechs use rather than the legacy big banks.
And a bit more about us: https://griffin.sh/culture We're looking for thoughtful people who strive to be kind in their words and actions. As product designers, we are always looking for ways to simplify complex things and we take security very seriously. As a financial institution, we believe that our customers' trust is our single most valuable asset and we will go above and beyond to earn and keep it.
Our backend stack is Clojure, FoundationDB, Kubernetes and AWS
Our frontend stack is CLJS, Reframe, Reagent, React, Stitches, Storybook, and Playroom.
Our build system is Bazel, CircleCI, AWS CDK We have an office in London but our team are distributed throughout the UK, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Portugal and Estonia. See our jobs page for more info: https://griffin.sh/careers
Comment · 4 years ago
We're hiring for this role in the UK and parts of the EU: https://boards.greenhouse.io/griffin/jobs/5252742003
Comment · 4 years ago
Revolut is not a bank in the UK
Comment · 4 years ago
Griffin (https://www.griffin.sh) | UK, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Portugal | Full-time | Remote | Engineering
We're a new Banking as a Service provider (think AWS for financial services) currently seeking authorisation to become a fully regulated bank, so that we can provide safeguarding and client money bank accounts to our customers. We believe that in the future, most financial innovation will happen outside banks rather than inside them, and Griffin will be the platform that all future fintechs use rather than the boring big banks.
And a bit more about us: https://griffin.sh/culture
We're looking for thoughtful people who strive to be kind in their words and actions. As product designers, we are always looking for ways to simplify complex things and we take security very seriously. As a financial institution, we believe that our customers' trust is our single most valuable asset and we will go above and beyond to earn and keep it.
Our backend stack is Clojure, FoundationDB, Kubernetes and AWS
Our frontend stack is CLJS, Reframe, Reagent, React, Stitches, Storybook, and Playroom
Our build system is Bazel, CircleCI, AWS CDK
We have an office in London but our team are distributed throughout the UK, Ireland, Germany, Sweden and Portugal.
See our jobs page for more info: https://griffin.sh/careers
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