Senior Software Engineer (Go) UK Faster Payments

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

THE ROLE

As a Senior Engineer in the UK Engineering Team youll be at the forefront of maintaining and enhancing mission-critical infrastructure technology for some the worlds most established banks and financial institutions.

An opportunity to make significant impact by identifying and implementing improvements that enhance the performance scalability and reliability of high-volume payment systems. Youll ensure our platform runs seamlessly contributing to the backbone of UK financial operations.

Youll collaborate with a team of talented senior engineers tackling the challenges of securely processing millions of transactions per day driving forward the operational excellence needed to maintain a high-performance critical service.

WERE LOOKING FOR

Essential

Deep understanding of designing and building distributed systems

Enjoys working on complex challenges within critical software where high performance and robustness are essential

Familiarity with cloud and containerisation technologies test automation tools and CI/CD pipelines

Interest in owning projects end-to-end and supporting them as they go live in production

Appreciation of clean code and software engineering best-practice

Experience with Go along with a right tool for the job mentality

Great communication skills who enjoy sharing knowledge and collaborating with others

Desirable

A passion for working on mature products and a drive to improve them.

Interest in DevOps specifically running applications in Kubernetes.

Experience of tools like Prometheus and Grafana leveraging them to build a robust product observability model.

Fearless debugging skills working through multiple layers and confidently stepping into unknown environments and exploring them.

A knack for identifying opportunities for internal tooling and building it.

TECH STACK

Here are a few of the tools and methodologieswe utilise:

Infrastructure: AWS GCP Azure Kubernetes Hybrid Cloud

Platform: CockroachDB Vault NATS Cilium

Tools: Terraform GitHub Prometheus Tilt

Code: Go containerised microservices open source

Ways of working: Pair Programming 100% remote SecDevOps

THE TEAM

Team Size: Youll be joining a group of 6-7 Senior Engineers led by Lead Engineer.

Daily Routine: UK teams have an optional daily sync/social meeting with daily updates provided asynchronously via Slack.

Responsibility: Youll take ownership of the entire delivery process. This includes problem exploration solution development and collaborating across other functions (Product Customer Operations etc.)

Workflow: We embrace flexible workflow adapting to the needs of our projects and team members. Our approach is similar to Kanban.

Estimates & Planning: Most work is customer facing so clear communication of delivery dates is key to managing expectations. We aim to keep the process light and efficient.

Customer support: Youll support high-volume payment products for large financial institutions and banks helping resolve queries and investigating transaction anomalies. While day-to-day interaction with customers is minimal (we have dedicated teams to handle customer communication) significant part of the work is driven by customer requests. Were always seeking opportunities to optimise and automate this work.

Type of work: The main challenge in front of the UK team is continuously improving the reliability observability and performance of a mature high-volume payments platform. This includes deep analysis of issues designing and executing robust testing strategies and a keen eye for noticing risk and inefficiencies with a drive to reduce them.

Objectives: Expand Form3s position in the UK market by onboarding customers and provide them with the best platform by exceeding reliability and availability SLAs.

INTERVIEW PROCESS

Stage 1: Screening Call with Talent Team

Stage 2: Take home test

Stage 3: Team interview

Stage 4: Technical interview

We always aim to stick to the above process however there may be occasions when an additional interview stage is needed for us to be sure we find the best fit for the role!

HIRING LOCATIONS

We are able to accept applications from the following countries; Germany Netherlands Portugal Spain & UK

ABOUT FORM3

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THE ROLE As a Senior Engineer in the UK Engineering Team youll be at the forefront of maintaining and enhancing mission-critical infrastructure technology for some the worlds most established banks and financial institutions.An opportunity to make significant impact by identifying and implementing i...