Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Form3's UK Engineering Team as a Senior Engineer and be at the forefront of maintaining and enhancing mission-critical infrastructure technology for major financial institutions. You will significantly impact the performance, scalability, and reliability of high-volume payment systems. Collaborate with a talented team to securely process millions of transactions daily. This role requires deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud technologies, and Go programming. You will own projects end-to-end and support them in production. The team operates remotely with flexible workflows.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of designing and building distributed systems
• Enjoy 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

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance mission-critical infrastructure technology for major financial institutions
• Identify and implement improvements that enhance the performance, scalability, and reliability of high-volume payment systems
• Ensure the platform runs seamlessly, contributing to the backbone of UK financial operations
• Collaborate with a team of talented senior engineers
• Securely process millions of transactions per day
• Drive forward the operational excellence needed to maintain a high-performance, critical service
• Own projects end-to-end and support them as they go live in production
• Support high-volume payment products for large financial institutions and banks, helping resolve queries and investigating transaction anomalies
• Continuously improve the reliability, observability and performance of a mature, high-volume payments platform
• Deep analysis of issues, designing and executing robust testing strategies
• Identify risk and inefficiencies with a drive to reduce them

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

100% remote work