Senior Software Engineer (Go) - Platform API

THE ROLE 📝  

As a Senior Go Engineer on the Platform APIs Team, you’ll work on some of our company’s most pivotal distributed services, where performance, scalability, and reliability are paramount.   

Our engineers are encouraged to tackle projects independently, with collaborative opportunities for solving complex challenges, brainstorming new designs, and discussing innovative ideas. You’ll play a key role in maintaining high-performance standards and contributing to cost-efficient optimisations that impact the entire platform.    

Responsibilities  

• Design, develop, and optimise high-performance Go-based microservices, essential to transaction management and payment processing.   
• Push the boundaries of CockroachDB with efficient database configurations and high-performing queries to support scalability and speed.   
• Optimise inter-service communication using NATS for low-latency and distributed processing.   
• Continuously refine services to balance cost-efficiency with high performance, maintaining strict availability and performance SLOs.   
• Maintain high availability standards in a Kubernetes multi-cloud environment, operating across AWS, Azure, and GCP.  

  

WE’RE LOOKING FOR 🔍  

Essential  

• 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  

Desirable  

• Exposure to Kubernetes and/or CockroachDB would be great!  

  

TECH STACK ⚙️   

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

• Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes (EKS,GKE,AKS)  
• Platform: CockroachDB, Elasticsearch, PostgresDB, Vault, NATS Jetstream  
• Tools: Flux, Terraform, GitHub, Prometheus, Localstack, Tilt  
• Code: Go (and a little Java), containerised microservices, open-source   
• Ways of working: TDD/BDD, 100% remote, SecDevOps, GitOps  

  

THE TEAM 👥   

The Platform APIs Team is responsible for low-latency, mission-critical, stateful services that support our payments infrastructure 24x7, 365 days a year.   

Engineers on the team take individual ownership of tasks, focusing deeply on optimisation and scalability to ensure these services operate seamlessly at high volumes. Running active-active across multiple clouds in Kubernetes, these services present complex, fascinating challenges in distributed computing. This work offers an excellent grounding in high-transaction, distributed cloud architecture on Kubernetes.   

The team’s culture values collaboration for complex problem-solving, architectural decisions, and innovations in scaling and cost-efficient improvements, providing a supportive environment where expertise is shared and ideas are developed together.  

  

INTERVIEW PROCESS ✍️  

Stage 1: Screening Call with Talent Team  

Stage 2: Take home test  

Stage 3: Team interview  

Stage 4: Technical 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 we find the best fit for the role!  

  

HIRING LOCATIONS 📍  

We are able to accept applications from the following countries; Canada (Ontario only), Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain & UK  

 

ABOUT FORM3 💭

Revolutionising the world of payments with our cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions. 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 

 

OUR DEI&B COMMITMENT 

We hire talented people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences and are committed to a work environment based on diversity, open-mindedness and curiosity. We’re united by our company values (we even created them together!) and we celebrate our unique differences. 

Our employee lifecycle processes are designed to embrace equal opportunity and prevent discrimination against our people regardless of personal characteristics. It is our strong belief that the more inclusive and belonging we are as a business, the better our work will be. 

As an inclusive employer, we guarantee to interview all neurodiverse and physically disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for this role. We also encourage candidates to notify us of any reasonable adjustments that may be required during the recruitment process. This includes providing job adverts in alternative, accessible formats or adjustments required at interview stage. 

If you consider yourself to be neurodiverse or physically disabled under the UN definition of disability and would like to be considered under this scheme and/or require any reasonable adjustments please let us know by sending an email to careers@form3.tech clearly stating your consent for us to process this data.

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