Senior Software Engineer

Our client is transforming how money moves into markets across Africa, Asia and beyond. By building cutting-edge payment solutions, they're simplifying financial transactions for individuals and businesses alike - helping them thrive in a global economy.

- Your Mission

Help our client enhance the digital payment systems and infrastructure for emerging markets by contributing to the development & design of their core components and tools of their payment web service API.

- Your Responsibilities

Our client is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who is experienced in Go to help them take their business product to the next level. Following impressive growth, they are diversifying their offering to continue to deliver on their mission of increasing economic opportunities for working migrants globally.

Specifically they want to open up their payment rails to customers via API, enabling corporates to send, receive and convert funds through their platform directly from their own systems.

They are deeply passionate about the communities they serve and they hope you will share their drive to deliver world class software and to achieve their ambitious goals.

Whilst projects change from sprint to sprint, these are the types of projects that we expect you will be getting involved in in the first few months:

• Build business facing features together with the frontend team
• Integrate with payment partners to offer fast and reliable payments across many countries
• Implement core business logic such as Know Your Business, Identification Verification, Anti Money Laundering and fraud monitoring to keep our customers safe
• Quickly launch new countries by writing modular and configurable code to adapt to market specific and evolving requirements
• Use data to drive decision making and identify customer insights
• Automate processes and partner failover to reduce support load and keep our customers happy
• Contribute to their customer-facing REST API core functionalities

-Their Tech Stack

• Services are written in Go, deployed in AWS ECS and communicate with their app with gRPC
• Their mobile app is written in Dart with Flutter and available on both Android and iOS
• Their business product is web only and written in React and Typescript
• They use Postgres, Kafka, Redis and Vault
• They use and leverage AWS as much as possible and they manage it with Terraform
• They write unit and integration tests, do code reviews and deploy multiple times a day
• They use Agile frameworks and project management tools

-Must Have Requirements

• You have at least 5+ years of experience building highly reliable and scalable backend services in Go
• Experience with RDBMSs such as Postgres, MySQL etc.
• Experience with message-brokers technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ etc, working within event-driven architectures
• You have excellent knowledge of the best practices in designing, developing and deploying those services in a cloud environment
• You have experience working asynchronously with global teams using modern communication and project management tools
• Passionate about our product and the mission that we are on
• You are fluent in written and spoken English

- Nice to Have Requirements

• You have experience working in Fintech and Payments
• You have experience working in a tech startup
• Experience in infosec
• Experience in creating robust, well-polished and documented server-to-server APIs for customers access (E.g. REST/GraphQL)

- Benefits

EU/Remote Benefits:

• 35 Days Off: Enjoy an amazing 35 days of holidays to unwind and explore (This will be 27 days + 8 Bank Holidays if UK-based)
• Birthday Leave: Celebrate your special day with a bonus day off to take off in that month
• Enhanced Parental Leave - We offer 16 weeks of full pay for the primary caregiver and 4 weeks of full pay for the secondary caregiver (After your probationary period)
• Global Workspace: Get access to co-working locations worldwide
• Learning Budget: Fuel your growth with $1000 annually for learning and development

For people who come to our office:

• Hybrid Working: We work in our city centre office four days a week (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
• Office Perks: Themed snacks and Friday lunch focused on building great working relationships with the team
• Monthly Socials: Join fun social events every month for great times
• Free Coffee: Enjoy barista-style coffee at your fingertips