Senior Engineer (Golang)

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join ZipRecruiter's award-winning team as a Senior Software Engineer in London, where you'll leverage your skills in Golang and Python to develop solutions that combat financial crime. You'll collaborate with data scientists and software engineers to create high-performance applications, ensuring security and reliability in financial services. This role offers opportunities to innovate with cutting-edge technology in a dynamic work environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable ability to write Python/Golang and SQL in a production context.
• Experience with large volumes of data and high throughput, low latency solutions.
• Familiar with DevOps-based software development workflow, including CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain microservices primarily in Golang.
• Develop a complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture.
• Estimate and own delivery tasks to meet business requirements.

Skills

Python

Golang

SQL

DevOps

Microservices

APIs

Job description

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer

Overview

We are looking for a senior software engineer to join an award-winning team with a proven track record of combining data science techniques with an intimate knowledge of payments data to aid Financial Institutions in their fight against money laundering and fraud. Headquartered in The City of London, we craft bespoke services that help our clients gain an understanding of the underlying criminal behaviour that drives financial crime, empowering them to take action.

As part of the application development team, your role will focus on creating and maintaining products across the whole lifecycle.

Role

• Take personal responsibility for creating and maintaining microservices, primarily in Golang.
• Iterate design and build to solve bugs, improve performance, and add new features.
• Containerise your services and prepare for deployment onto a k8s environment using helm charts.
• Ensure resilience and reliability of services.
• Develop a complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture and dependency systems. Apply that understanding in code.
• Write tests with high coverage including unit, contract, e2e, and integration.
• Version control code with git and build, test, and deploy using CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and test remotely on your own machine and deploy to low-level environments.
• Review team members' code, identify errors, and improve performance and readability. Drive code design and process trade-off discussions within the team when required.
• Report status and manage risks within your primary application/service.
• Perform demos and join acceptance discussions with analysts, developers, and product owners.
• Assist in task planning and review as part of a sprint-based workflow.
• Estimate and own delivery tasks (design, development, testing, deployment, configuration, documentation) to meet business requirements.

All About You

First and foremost, you enjoy building products to solve real, pressing problems for your customers. You enjoy working in a team and have an interest in data science and how advanced algorithms may be deployed as product offerings.

You are detail-oriented and enjoy writing and reviewing code to a high standard with tests to prove it.

• Demonstrable ability to write Python/Golang and SQL in a production context. You are happy to learn new programming languages and frameworks as necessary.
• Experience with large volumes of data and high throughput, low latency solutions.
• You have experience with, and are interested in, contemporary approaches to service design, including the use of containers and container orchestration technologies, streaming data platforms, APIs, and in-memory/NoSQL stores.
• You are comfortable working in a DevOps-based software development workflow, including building, testing, and continuous integration/deployment. You are also happy to evolve along with the development process and contribute to its success.
• You are comfortable communicating with a range of stakeholders, including subject matter experts, data scientists, software engineers, and enterprise DevOps and security professionals.
• You have the ability to engage with best practices for code review, version control, and change control, balancing the need for a quality codebase with the unique and particular demands of scale-up stage software engineering.
• You have experience optimizing solution performance with a constrained set of technologies.
• You have experience or are keen to engage with productionising machine learning technologies.