Senior Software Developer (Go) - 100% Remote, UK/EU Only

Form3 Financial Cloud ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

ABOUT US Form3 isa startup fintech on a mission tomakepayments easier, faster and cheaper forfintechs, digital banks, ecommerce gateways, card providersand traditionalbanks wanting to reinvent themselves. Form3 is a fully managed payment technology service combining a AWS cloud processing platform, multiple-scheme payment gateways and a fully managed 24x7 service model. Form3 provides a complete end-to-end Payments as a Service for financial institutions and regulatedfintechs. Reliable and secure cloud-based access and processing for FPS, BACS, CHAPS, SEPA, SEPA Instant & SWIFT with no hardware or software required by our customers. The service is robust and reliable, trusted by theworldsleading financial institutions. Form3's REST API provides a single, simple point of access to the full universe of payment schemes, giving our customers straight-forward, easy to use and hassle-free Payments as a Service. LIFE AT FORM3 We're an open, diverse and friendly bunch who believe everyone has a voice. Our team is a mixture of banking experts, techies, artists, marketers, and customer advocates. Simply put, we're obsessed with creating cloud-based solutions that get real time, cutting edge payment tech into the hands ofFinTechsand banks alike. By joining Form3 you'll get the opportunity to be part of our rapidly scaling business, and work side by side with some of the most experienced people in tech and payments, working in one of the highest growth sectors for payment FinTech in the world. We don't mind whereabouts you are based as we offer the opportunity for our team to work remotely from anywhere in the UK or EU. Most of our tech team work this way in fact, by using screen sharing technology to share knowledge and work together doing pair programming. We have found that our team are happier and much more productive that way. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR We are looking for SeniorSoftwareDeveloperswho want to help build the next generation payment API in the cloud. We'd like to hear from enthusiasticdevelopers who want to work with the latest technologies, solve interesting problems and be part of a really great team. There are a wide range of problems to tackle, from configuringnginxproxies to writing custom payment routing and handling logic, and we contribute open source back to the community. We believe that the language you write the code in is just how you convey your solution to the computer and the real value is being able to think through a problem. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING You will be working on new development projects, focused on best practice across the board, including automation of absolutely everything (Terraform for infrastructure deployments to AWS, CI/CD with contract-based testing and auto-deployment of services within Docker containers, etc.), pair programming and TDD/BDD. Although many of us live around London, we are operating as a remote team, and typically working from home and pair programming. We try to pick the right tool for the job, and these regularly change. To give you a flavour though: * Some of the languages we currently use are: Golang, Java, Python and Ruby * Some of the tools we use: Terraform, Docker, Vault, Consul,Linkerd * Our platform runs inAWSwherewe use: SQS, SNS, EC2, ECS,RDSand others ESSENTIAL SKILLS/EXPERIENCE * Polyglot : Choosing the right tool to solve the problem is critical, and we expect you to have professional experience with at least 2 differentprogramminglanguages and multiple platforms and tools. * Distributed architecture : We expect you to have previous experience engineering complex distributed systems, and a view on topics such as service discovery, integration testing, inter-process communication, how to define your services and APIs, as well asexperience withdistributed data stores. * Public cloud :You have worked with public cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud etc.) * TDD/BDD : Code quality is key, and we expect you to have worked withTest-driven development (TDD) and Behaviour-driven development (BDD) andbe familiar with theuse of tools such as Cucumber. DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE * Most of our code is written in Java and Go, so experience with either would be helpful * All our services are built and managed as docker containers, soKubernetes,and general docker experience ispreferred. * We like clean code, so experience withEvent Sourcing/CQRSwill be useful. * We do contract-based testing,using tools such as Pact * We work as adevopsteam, so experience in automating operations (such as infrastructure as code, automated monitoring and alerting, build pipelines etc) would also be useful. B ENEFITS You'll get the opportunity to be part of a rapidly scaling FinTech company, working alongside some of the brightest talents in tech and payments: * Flexible remote working/work from home * 30 days holiday (plusBank Holidays) * Pair programming, with an experienced team of engineers * Competitive salary * Latest techn