Senior Software Engineer (Golang/TypeScript/React, Independent Contractor)

• We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team, responsible for working on our platform, which some of the world’s biggest companies, central banks and non-governmental organisations use to build revenue and volume through data and analytics
• This is an opportunity to influence technical direction, elevate engineering standards and deliver features that make a meaningful difference to our clients
• Designing, developing, testing, maintaining and enhancing the Golang microservices and frontend applications you’re responsible for
• Delivering beautiful, performant interfaces, driven by our design system, for our customers
• Taking full ownership of features from ideation to production
• Acting as a key voice in technical strategy, navigating the trade-offs between existing systems and new technologies and communicating architectural decisions
• Improving the performance and observability of our services and applications
• Improving the quality of life of your team and the business, through automation, process improvement or new technologies
• You will join a technical team of approximately 30 technologists with a key purpose of continuously and reliably collecting large amounts of financial data describing cross-border payments, then processing the data, verifying its quality and serving it to our users so that they can make informed business decisions
• A typical team contains around three engineers and a Product Manager
• You will be interacting with various stakeholders across the business in addition to your immediate team
• Tech Stack:
• Golang, TypeScript, React, MaterialUI, MariaDB, Clickhouse, Gitlab, AWS, SQL

Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements
• Receive a 20% annual bonus and share options
• A brand new Mac or PC it’s your choice!
• 5% Workplace pension scheme contribution
• Professional/Career coaching sessions with an external coach
• Perkbox subscription for exclusive deals and discounts
• AXA private healthcare for employee and spouse/partner and/or children

• Learn and engage with a new business domain and product
• Write performant SQL
• You should apply if you can confidently:
• Write Golang services and web app backends, and deploy them in Docker containers
• Build beautiful, componentised application frontends in React/TypeScript
• Understand clean code principles and the language idioms of TypeScript and Go, review code using these principles and establish team quality standards
• Communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical people
• Talk about how you learn and improve your skills
• Building CI/CD pipelines, especially with GitLab CI
• Applications with concurrent logic (i.e. goroutines)
• Configuring and using observability tools (e.g. Prometheus and Grafana)
• Experience utilising AI to increase productivity and efficiency of work and productionised AI tools
• MaterialUI
• Using Airflow, Python or Terraform

• Contact: Charlotte Meek