Modulr Software Engineer -Backend freshers and entry level candidates apply Full Time NEW

We want to hire ambitious, and value-adding talent into Modulr, one of the fastest growing payments businesses in the UK and Europe. Modulr is experiencing significant growth, and in this role you will work in a cross-functional team who are asked to solve a problem, rather than be handed a task to do. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a high-growth environment with a fast-paced and collaborative culture where you will have great opportunities to work on challenging problems.

Engineering & Architecture

•Design and develop backend services using Java (17+) or similar OO languages.
•Build and evolve microservices and distributed, event-driven components in a cloud-native environment.
•Contribute to architectural patterns that support throughput, resilience, reliability, and observability.
•Design clean, well-documented RESTful APIs and service contracts.
•Work with relational data stores, especially PostgreSQL, and contribute to data modelling.
Distributed Systems & Reliability
•Engineer solutions for concurrency, idempotency, fault tolerance, retries, and high availability.
•Improve system performance, reduce latency, and identify bottlenecks across services.
•Build systems with strong observability—logs, metrics, tracing—ensuring issues can be diagnosed quickly.

Quality & Testing

•Develop comprehensive automated tests using frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber.
•Participate in design and code reviews, helping raise engineering standards across the team.
•Advocate for code quality, maintainability, and long-term technical health.
DevOps, Cloud & Tooling
•Use and improve deployment pipelines and operational tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS services).
•Contribute to internal frameworks, shared libraries, and engineering best practices.
•Help shape the evolution of our platform toward a more flexible, modern architecture.
Collaboration & Delivery
•Work in an agile environment, contributing to planning, design discussions, and iterative delivery.
•Collaborate across squads to shape technical solutions that span multiple systems.
•Document best practices, reference architectures, and design approaches others can rely on.

About you

•Expertise in Java or another OO language with willingness to work in Java.
•Strong understanding of OOP, design patterns, and distributed systems fundamentals.
•Experience building and operating microservices in production.
•Ability to reason about concurrency, performance, and system behaviour under load.
•Clear, proactive communication and a collaborative, team-first mindset.
•Strong analytical and problem-solving skills supported by sound engineering judgement.
•Ability to manage complexity, balance competing priorities, and deliver high-quality work.
•A growth mindset—you enjoy learning, improving, and helping others grow.
•A self-starter attitude with a passion for ownership and continuous improvement.

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