Senior Software Developer (Go) - US Payments (Contract)

Form3 (via Otta); United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote

Job summary

Form3 is seeking several Senior Software Developers contractors to join our US Payments engineering team from Canada (Ontario). You'll design, build and test high-volume payments infrastructure in Go on our cloud-native platform, delivering Zelle and Fedwire capabilities and ensuring security and resilience.

You will collaborate with Product and Engineering, own end-to-end initiatives, contribute to technical design, and improve monitoring, deployment readiness and runbooks.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing distributed systems.
• Go expertise with production-grade systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms and containerization.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and test automation.
• Ability to own projects end-to-end.
• Excellent communication and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement US payments gateway features in Go.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to refine requirements.
• Contribute to technical design and platform architecture.
• Improve resilience, performance, monitoring and observability.
• Support release readiness and production deployments.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation.
• Ensure alignment with Form3 security standards.

Skills

Go programming

Distributed systems

Cloud & containerization

CI/CD pipelines

Test automation

End-to-end ownership

Communication

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Terraform

GitHub

Prometheus

Job description

THE PROJECT** **

Form3 is looking for several Senior Software Developers contractors to work alongside our US Software Engineering team to deliver new products within our US Payments proposition.

This is an opportunity to work on critical payments infrastructure in a highly technical environment, contributing to the design, build, testing and launch of new Zelle and Fedwire capabilities. You’ll be working in Go on Form3’s cloud-native platform, applying proven engineering patterns from our existing payments services while solving the specific challenges that come with high-volume, resilient, regulated payment systems.

• Design and implement new US payments gateway functionality in Go, aligned to product requirements and agreed technical architecture.This includespayment flows, scheme-specific behaviours, error handling, validation and operational requirements, as well ascomprehensive automated integration tests covering this functionality.
• Work collaborativelywith Product, Engineeringand otherfunctionsto refine requirements and validate implementation choices.
• Contribute to technical design activity, including design proposals, implementation plans and problem-solving withinForm3platformarchitecture.
• Support non-functional requirements relatedto resilience, performance, disaster recovery, failure-mode testing and operational readiness.Establish and improve monitoring, alerting, telemetry and observability to support operational visibility from development through to production.
• Support production-readiness activity, including release preparation, final validation, production deployment and post-launch issue resolution.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation, including design notes, testing documentation, deployment guidance, operational procedures and runbooks.
• Ensure all work aligns with Form3’s engineering standards, security expectations and the standards required for critical payments infrastructure.

WE’RE LOOKINGFOR

• Deep understanding of designing and building distributed systems
• Enjoys working on complex challenges within critical software where high performance and robustness are essential
• Familiarity with cloud and containerisation technologies, test automation tools and CI/CD pipelines
• Interest in owning projects end-to-end and supporting them as they go live in production
• Appreciation of clean code and software engineering best-practice
• Experience with Go, along with a “right tool for the job” mentality
• Great communication skills who enjoy sharing knowledge and collaborating with others

TECH STACK

Here are a few of the tools and methodologies we utilise:

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

INTERVIEW PROCESS

Stage 1: Screening Call with Talent Team

Stage 2: Take home test

Stage 3: Technical interview (may be separated into two parts)

We always aim to stick to the above process, however there may be occasions when anadditionalinterview stage is needed for us to be surewe’rehiring the right person!

LOCATIONS

Here are the locations that we are looking to engage with contractors from. Please note, we are not looking to engage with contractors outside of these locations.

• Canada (Ontario only)

All contractors start their first day in our office to collect the equipment needed to work remotely.

ABOUT FORM3

Revolutionising the world of payments with ourcutting-edgetechnology and innovative solutions. For more information about Form3, check out the following pages:

What we do|Life at Form3|Payments CannotFailSeries|.TechPodcast

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