# Senior Backend Engineer, payments and cards

What Bits is Bits helps people in the UK build their credit with a subscription and a credit card. It is regulated by the FCA, has tens of thousands of paying members, and is run by a team of fewer than 20 people. Every engineer works with Claude Code every day. The job You own the code that moves the money: subscriptions and billing on Stripe (two accounts), the card with our card processor, the store and gift cards, pushes to members, the reporting data behind them, and our USA site. You take over these systems and make them better. You work beside our lead backend engineer, w ho owns payments, Stripe, infrastructure and the web today, and directly with the CEO. Your first 90 days Take over the subscription, billing and store services end to end, with a writtenmap of what runs where, whatalarms exist, and what fails silently today. Ship the top change the CEO picks Take one job a person does by hand today, in finance, support or collections, and automate it. How we work A small, excellent team, paid well on standard terms. No custom deals and no managers for their own sake.Smart people get a mandate, not instructions. You get the problem and you own the answer.n estimate before a

- **Id**: 4059709
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/bits-senior-backend-engineer-payments-and-cards>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T07:37:43Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T07:37:43Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1618
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cards & Card Issuing, Personal Finance Apps & Education

## Company

- **Id**: 677791
- **Name**: Bits
- **Domain**: getbits.app
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/getbits>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

## Technologies

- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Stripe** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T07:37:43Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T10:07:41Z

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