Senior Go Engineer - Global Payments (UK Remote)

Understanding Recruitment Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Understanding Recruitment Ltd is seeking a Senior Golang Engineer to join a fast-growing fintech building a stablecoin-native alternative to traditional business banking. The role offers UK remote work with an optional London office, and the team is expanding to support global payments, accounts and card products.

You will own backend systems, design distributed services, and collaborate closely with product and compliance to launch new financial products while shaping technical decisions in a

Qualifications

• Strong Go experience.
• Experience building distributed, event-driven systems.
• Good knowledge of databases, messaging, APIs and AWS.
• The initiative to take an open-ended problem and deliver a working solution.

Responsibilities

• Build backend services in Go to move, settle and account for customer funds.
• Develop integrations across banks, payment networks and blockchain systems.
• Design distributed services that handle failures without compromising payment accuracy.
• Own systems from architecture through deployment, monitoring and scaling.
• Work directly with product and compliance to launch new financial products.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

APIs & messaging

Initiative & problem solving

Tools

AWS

Job description

Understanding Recruitment Ltd is seeking a Senior Golang Engineer to join a fast-growing fintech building a stablecoin-native alternative to traditional business banking. The role offers UK remote work with an optional London office, and the team is expanding to support global payments, accounts and card products.

You will own backend systems, design distributed services, and collaborate closely with product and compliance to launch new financial products while shaping technical decisions in a