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Senior Software Engineer

🏢 Runa • 📍 Runa London • 🕒 Sep 14, 2026
Salary Range
£41,921 - £61,166
£3,493 - £5,097 / mo

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Runa London
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Position Overview & Specifications

Runa is pioneering a first-of-its-kind payment rail that enables the seamless, global money movement at scale. Legacy banking and payment infrastructure struggles to support the demands of today's low-volume, high-velocity payouts, leading to inefficiencies in global payouts. Businesses worldwide send over $20 trillion annually in rewards, remittances, and disbursements often incurring costs of up to 50% per transaction and subjecting recipients to lengthy delays.

Runa transforms this landscape by providing a new digital payments infrastructure that empowers businesses to send digital money instantly and cost-free to anyone, anywhere. The Runa API empowers thousands of businesses to make payments to 5 billion+ consumers in 190+ countries instantly to cards, wallets, bank accounts and gift cards. Leading companies such as Sodexo, TopCashback, Perkbox, Sweatcoin, Coinbase, and Globetopper rely on Runa to facilitate instant, flexible global payouts to tens of millions of consumers.

 

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, implementing and deploying software services from end to end. You’ll produce clean, scalable, and reusable code to build products which will have a big impact on our customers.

You will have the opportunity to work with a modern stack and serverless cloud infrastructure whilst guiding and mentoring more junior engineers in the team.

 

Our Tech

We have Python, TypeScript, and Javascript services running mostly on Lambda functions. We use Step Functions extensively to orchestrate our workflows. Our persistence layer is largely Aurora (Postgres), DynamoDB, MemoryDB (Redis), and Timestream.

However, we understand the dynamic nature of technology and recognize that skills in any programming language is a valuable asset, which is why we are open to engineers from any programming background.

 

What Excites You

  • Contributing towards the design, delivery and deployment of large scale, complex projects which are used heavily by thousands of people with high throughput.

  • Using modern technology like AWS serverless infrastructure and events driven microservice architecture

  • Mentoring more junior members of the team to help support their growth and development and help scale the team by leading on technical interviews.

  • Being a subject matter expert on technology and domain-specific problems, and taking ownership of software services from end to end.

  • Improving responsiveness and overall performance of our web services.

What Excites Us

  • Around 5+ years of Software Engineering experience architecting and developing new services and features from end to end.

  • The ability to take ownership of design and architecture of large scale systems and developing API heavy software solutions without the need for guidance.

  • A passion for promoting software engineering best practice, guiding and mentoring more junior engineers to deliver clean, scalable, and reusable code.

  • Proactively contributing to the continual improvement of our engineering processes

Even if you do not meet all of the above requirements but still think you would be a good fit for the role we would still encourage you to apply.

 

What’s in it for you

🏢 We have a hybrid structure with the requirement of 3 days a week at our London Office (Shoreditch)

📚£1,000 annual L&D allowance to invest in mastering your craft, including accredited studies. Plus 5 L&D days per year

🌴 25 days holiday + public holidays

🔋 Runa Reset Days - Runa closes on the first Friday of each quarter for a well-deserved, Reset Day

☀️ Summer Hours - In the month of August, we log off at 3pm on Fridays.

🗺️ Work from anywhere for up to 45 calendar days a year

🚀 Participation in the Employee Options pool giving you ownership in Runa

🚑 Private Medical + Dental Health Insurance with Bupa

👶 Enhanced parental leave for all new parents, up to 16 weeks full pay

💷 We are currently working towards salary transparency however we are not there just yet so our talent team will discuss this during the initial call to ensure that the right expectations are given.

 

The Interview Process

  1. Call with Talent Lead ☎️

  2. System Design Interview 🛠️

  3. Coding Interview 💻

  4. Values Interview 🌟

 

Want to learn more about life at Runa and our hiring process? Visit our Candidate Hub: https://runahq.notion.site/runa-candidate-hub

 

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to providing a hiring and working experience in which all people feel they are equally respected and valued regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process

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Application & Resume Screening

Submit your tailored CV/Resume directly to the talent acquisition portal.

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Technical & Competency Interviews

Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.

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Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation

Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.

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Onboarding & Corporate Integration

Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.

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Employment in the United Kingdom requires legal Right to Work verified under the Home Office Points-Based Immigration System:

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Sponsoring employers must hold an active Home Office A-rated Sponsor License and assign a valid Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS). Role must meet the general minimum salary threshold (£38,700) or occupation going rate.

🏛️ Settlement (ILR) Pathway

Continuous employment under Skilled Worker status establishes eligibility for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) after 5 continuous years, leading to British Citizenship.

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Recruitment Insights

Based on transatlantic hiring benchmarks for Senior Software Engineer roles across Runa's corporate sector, successful applicants typically excel across three core dimensions:

1. Domain Competency

Demonstrated portfolio evidence, architecture/system design case studies, or validated professional certifications directly applicable to Software Engineering.

2. Behavioral & Leadership

STAR method competency responses highlighting cross-functional leadership, conflict resolution, and delivering measurable enterprise ROI under tight timelines.

3. Compensation Alignment

Total compensation expectation aligned within the benchmarked £41,921 - £61,166 bracket, including retirement vesting and health parity.

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