Get to know the Technology team at FXC
Finding the right workplace is a bit like online dating. You exchange some messages, see each other for the first time, talk a bit, swap stories and try to check if this can be THE ONE.
Do you get along? Are you interested in similar things and do you make each other smile? Do you have a natural connection? It might feel a little awkward at first, but is it the right kind of challenge? Before you know it, you’re faced with a big decision: are you ready to take the leap and move forward together?
Finding a good match is as important to us as it is to you. We’ll try to make it a bit easier and be open and upfront about ourselves: the Technology team at FXC Intelligence.
Who are we?
- Our key purpose is to continuously and reliably collect large amounts of financial data describing cross-border payments, then process the data, check the quality and serve it to our users so that they can make the best business decisions
- We (the Technology team at FXC) are the largest department, made up of 40 people split between 6 Agile teams. 3 teams work on our data presentation layer (web applications and web APIs), and 3 teams work on the data processing side
- We have roughly 50% mid-level engineers, 25% seniors, 25% hands-on team leads/managers
- Our UK team – which makes up 20% of our Tech team – works remote first, coming to the London office on average once per month, and our European team (the remaining 80%!) works fully remote
We follow the industry's best practices:
- Constantly improving our Agile processes (Scrum and Kanban, depending on the team and nature of work)
- Weekly guild meetings for each discipline (Fullstack, Data, BA)
- Technology teams have significant ownership of their backlogs and priorities, making sure we don’t accumulate too much technical debt and iterate our architecture, tooling and other choices
What’s our Tech Stack?
Basic toolset shared by entire Technology team:
- Jira, Confluence, Slack
- GitLab
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Grafana, Prometheus, AlertManager
- ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana)
- Currently experimenting with: Terraform, Terragrunt, ArgoCD, GitLab Duo, AWS Bedrock
- Currently retiring: Jenkins
Our core technologies on the Data side are:
- Python & SQL
- Kafka
- Clickhouse
- Airflow
- DBT
- PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB
- Experimenting with: DataHub, Airbyte, RDS implementation of our RDBMS
- Currently retiring: Jenkins, self-hosted RDBMS
Our core technologies on the User-facing side are:
- TypeScript / React / NodeJS
- Go
- MaterialUI
- Charting/data visualization (Plotly with extra customisations)
- Microservices architecture
- MariaDB, MongoDB
If you want to find out more about what makes us special, or how to woo us, then keep your eyes peeled, as more blogs are coming soon!
