Mid Backend Engineer (Golang)

Requirements

• This is an ideal opportunity for a motivated self-starter to accelerate their career, taking a broad and varied role within a rapidly growing company. We pride ourselves on building an inclusive working environment where diversity is celebrated
• As an Engineer, you should be an expert in at least one aspect of software development and skilled in other areas. You have learned that delivering great software takes a team and has plenty of pitfalls to avoid
• 3+ years’ expertise in software development using strongly-typed languages (e.g. Go, Java, or similar), with at least 1+ year of commercial experience using Golang
• Product-engineering experience (e.g. solving customer problems, delivering on business goals, working with product managers and frontend teams) with Golang
• Strong experience writing easily-testable and thoroughly-tested code
• Data modelling and DB design experience with SQL or NoSQL DBs
• Experience delivering cloud-based REST or GraphQL API solutions
• Empathetic, proactive and constructive communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across teams
• Able to work three days a week onsite at our London office in 33 Holborn, EC1N 2HT
• (Desirable) Microservice and integrating distributed systems with messaging and event-driven architectures
• (Desirable) AWS Architecture experience
• (Desirable) Experience using Terraform, or other infrastructure as code tooling
• (Desirable) Educated to Bachelor’s or Master’s degree level in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Please note, as a regulated business we are required to run background checks for all employees which covers adverse financial and unspent convictions. These will only take place upon a successful job offer

What the job involves

• We’re looking for a Backend Engineer with solid Golang and database skills to help us build the scalable operations, technology, and processes needed to transform 5 million lives by making high-quality financial support affordable and accessible to employees everywhere
• We are looking for a product minded engineer who wants to deliver meaningful features to our end users. You’ll be a part of a multidisciplinary product engineering team and can collaborate closely with other backend engineers, frontend engineers, product, design and devops
• As the company continues to scale, there will be opportunities to be involved in the technical architecture and strategy for our products and tech stack
• Writing, testing and deploying great software
• Collaborating with the tech leads and other Engineers on deciding future technologies and processes
• Working with modern and new technologies and frameworks
• Working in an Agile team
• Building relationships with product and devops
• Conducting code reviews and pairing with other colleagues

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