Senior Software Engineer (Go) - UK Faster Payments

Form3; England; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology firm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Go) to enhance their infrastructure technology for global financial institutions. In this fully remote role, you will collaborate with senior engineers to process millions of secure transactions daily. Ideal candidates have strong experience in Go, distributed systems, and cloud technologies. This is an exciting opportunity to own projects end-to-end and work in a dynamic engineering team.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of distributed systems design and architecture.
• Strong experience with the Go programming language.
• Familiar with cloud technologies and containerisation.
• Experience with CI/CD and test automation workflows.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior engineers on secure transaction processing.
• Drive operational excellence in mission-critical infrastructure.
• Own the end-to-end delivery process of projects.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Go programming

Cloud and containerisation

Test automation

CI/CD pipelines

Clean code practices

Effective communication

DevOps experience

Kubernetes

Observability tools (Prometheus & Grafana)

Job description

Senior Software Engineer (Go) – UK Faster Payments

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As a Senior Engineer in the UK Engineering Team, you’ll maintain and enhance mission‑critical infrastructure technology for the world’s most established banks and financial institutions.

Responsibilities

You’ll collaborate with a team of senior engineers, tackling secure processing of millions of transactions per day, driving operational excellence.

Own the end‑to‑end delivery process: problem exploration, solution development, and cross‑functional collaboration with Product, Customer Operations, and other functions.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of designing and building distributed systems
• Experience with Go and the right tool for the job mentality
• Familiarity with cloud, containerisation technologies, test automation, and CI/CD pipelines
• Interest in owning projects end‑to‑end and supporting them through production
• Appreciation of clean code and software engineering best practices
• Great communication skills and collaboration mindset
• Passion for mature products and improving them
• DevOps experience, specifically running applications in Kubernetes
• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana, building an observability model
• Debugging skills, exploring unknown environments
• Opportunities for internal tooling building

Tools & Technologies

Code: Go, containerised microservices, open source

Ways of working: Pair Programming, 100% remote, SecDevOps

Team

You’ll join a group of 6‑7 senior engineers led by a Lead Engineer.

Hiring Process

Stage 1: Screening Call with Talent Team

Stage 2: Take‑home test

Stage 3: Team interview

Stage 4: Technical interview

Additional interview stages may be added if necessary.