Senior Software Engineer (Go) - US

Form3; Toronto; Remote; CAD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payment technology firm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its US engineering team. You will play a crucial role in developing their US gateway products, leveraging a robust tech stack including AWS and Kubernetes. If you have a strong background in distributed systems and enjoy solving complex challenges, we want to hear from you. The ideal candidate will thrive in a collaborative, remote-first environment and take ownership of projects from conception to production.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of designing and building distributed systems.
• Experience in programming in Go and familiarity with cloud technologies.
• Strong communication skills and collaborative approach.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to feature development and system design.
• Manage and enhance the infrastructure.
• Support daily product operations, including on-call duties.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Cloud technologies

Test automation

CI/CD pipelines

Programming in Go

Collaboration

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub

Prometheus

CockroachDB

Elasticsearch

Job description

THE ROLE

Join Form3s US engineering business line and contribute to the development of our US gateway products each built around a real-time payment scheme such as FedNow or TCH RTP. Reporting to the Lead Engineer and supported by our Staff Engineers you will play a key role in building mission-critical systems that we believe will transform how payments are made in the US. Come and play a significant role in building critical systems that we believe will change the way the US makes payments!

On a day-to-day basis you will contribute to feature development, system design and testing; manage and enhance our infrastructure; and support daily product operations including participating in the on-call. Gateways are built on top of Form3s cutting-edge multi-cloud platform and are in advanced stages of development ready to onboard first customers. As a Senior Software Engineer in a gateway team you will play a crucial role in making it happen.

WE aRE LOOKING FOR

Our ideal candidate :

• Has a deep understanding of designing and building distributed systems
• Enjoys working on complex challenges within critical software where high performance and robustness are essential
• Is familiar with cloud and containerisation technologies, test automation tools, and CI / CD pipelines
• Expresses interest in owning projects end-to-end and supporting them as they go live in production
• Has appreciation of clean code and software engineering best-practice
• Is experienced in programming in Go but also demonstrates a right tool for the job mentality
• Possesses great communication skills and enjoys sharing knowledge and collaborating with others

TECH STACK

• Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes
• Platform: CockroachDB, Elasticsearch, Vault, NATS
• Tools: Terraform, GitHub, Prometheus, Tilt
• Code: Go (and a little Java); containerised microservices; CQRS; open-source
• Ways of working: TDD / BDD; Pair Programming; 100% remote; SecDevOps

THE TEAM

The USA business line consists of engineers distributed in two teams. We are spread across multiple time zones in Europe and the Americas and therefore we highly value asynchronous communication. We give engineers autonomy to choose the right solutions for the problems they face and drive technical design. We encourage collaboration, make key decisions as a group and own our solutions end-to-end. We also keep close relationships with our Product colleagues who are domain experts in US payments. Our current focus is to complete functional build and prepare for Form3s US products go-lives targeted for Autumn 2025 we are excited to show our products to the world!

INTERVIEW PROCESS

1. Stage 1: Screening Call with Talent Team
2. Stage 2: Take-home tech test
3. Stage 3: Technical interview
4. Stage 4 (optional): Team interview

We always aim to stick to the above process however there may be occasions when an additional interview stage is needed for us to be sure were hiring the right person!

HIRING LOCATIONS

We are able to accept applications from the following countries: Canada (Ontario only)

ABOUT FORM3

Revolutionising the world of payments with our cutting-edge technology and innovative approach. For more information about life at Form3, check out the following pages: What we do Life at Form3 Benefits Flexa-verified employer .tech podcast series

Required Experience : Senior IC

Key Skills

Spring, .NET, C / C++, Go, React, OOP, C#, AWS, Data Structures, Software Development, Java, Distributed Systems

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1