Senior Software Engineer, Form3
Go, Transaction API
Payment technology platform
Open for applications
Payment technology platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To connect regulated businesses to payment schemes all over the world so that they can deliver amazing products for their customers.
Role
Who you are
- 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!
What the job involves
- As a Senior Go Engineer on the Transaction API 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
- 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
Application process
- Stage 1: Screening Call with Talent Team
- Stage 2: Take home test
- Stage 3: Team interview
- Stage 4: Technical interview
Our take
Form3 provides a complete end-to-end Payments-as-a-Service for financial institutions and regulated fintechs. It enables businesses to offer direct payment services via a simple interface, modernising their payment technology to make it more reliable and secure.
People expect their user experience with financial transactions to be fast and secure. Modern businesses require money to be transmitted instantly, securely, and with the promise of being available worldwide in real time. Form3 has capitalised on this modern demand, offering a comprehensive but straightforward service which gives customers greater control of their payments.
The company's partnerships have been a strong part of its growth strategy, with its payment tech being utilised by major enterprises, such as Goldman Sachs, Nationwide, and Clarency. Since raising considerable Series C in 2024, Form3 is also expanding its geographical footprint and product offering in the US and Europe, aiming to capture market opportunities in payment technology.
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Employee endorsements
Team energy
"There is so much positive energy across Form3 because we truly believe in what we are doing and we take pride in reshaping the payment industry. It..."
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2024
$60m
SERIES C
Sep 2021
$160m
SERIES C
Total funding: $277.3m
Company benefits
- 30 days of paid vacation for permanent employees
- Remote-first environment
- Health and wellness allowance
- Flexible working arrangements
- The very latest tools and tech and a home working equipment allowance
- Udemy and education reimbursements, as well as training opportunities
- Regular outings & events
- Primary caregiver leave
- Mental Health support via Spill
- Perlego subscription
Company values
- Transparency
- Everyone Matters
- Care Deeply
- High Standards
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
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Leadership
Michael Mueller
(Executive Chair & Founder)Former member of Barclays' Corporate Banking Executive Committee.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Form3
- Partnership with STEMettes acting as mentors to inspire young women grow into tech & science
- Registered as a Level 1 Disability Confident employer in 2022, making sure to provide with necessary arrangements and reasonable adjustments to be accommodated during the interview process
- Interview process based on pre-defined set of questions, assuring a fair and competent hiring process and promoting an internal professional career path
- Learning and development budget, offering Learning days during the year that could help to your professional growth
- Helping with mental health support and offering a wellbeing allowance, for anything linked to your physical or mental wellbeing
- Certified company as truly flexible by Flexa Careers (92% Flexa score), we can offer flexible schedule arrangements and part-time options also temporarily
- Recently awarded as Best Tech Employer 2022 by Women in Tech Awards UK
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