Senior Backend Engineer, Octopus Money

• We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with excellent Golang and database skills to help us build the scalable operations, technology, and processes needed to transform 5 million lives by making high-quality financial support affordable and accessible to employees everywhere
• This is an ideal opportunity for a motivated self-starter to accelerate their career, taking a broad and varied role within a rapidly growing company
• Collaborative and a great team player
• Problem solver at heart with an analytical mindset
• You should be someone who gets excited by complex problems and can find creative ways to solve them no matter what your level of knowledge and experience with the subject matter. You should be able to digest complexity and develop a plan to move forward, without losing sight of the important details
• Goal-driven and not afraid to get stuck in
• We like to set brilliant goals and find creative ways to hit them, even if that means rolling up our sleeves and doing manual tasks before we’ve managed to fully automate them. You should have a bias towards action and getting things done
• Excellent technical knowledge
• As a Senior Backend Engineer, you should be an expert in at least one aspect of software development and skilled in other areas. You have learned that delivering great software takes a team and has plenty of pitfalls to avoid
• Over five years of expertise in software development using strongly-typed languages (e.g. Go, Java, or similar), with at least 1+ year of commercial experience using Golang
• Strong experience writing easily-testable and thoroughly-tested code
• Demonstrable experience acting successfully as a Senior Engineer, ie breaking down a refined User Story into deliverable tasks and delivering those tasks within a sprint
• Data modelling and DB design experience with with SQL or NoSQL DBs
• Distributed system and messaging event-driven architecture experience
• Experience delivering cloud-based REST API solutions
• Empathetic, proactive and constructive communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across teams

Desirable

• As a Golang Backend Engineer, you will be working within one of our multi-disciplinary feature squads to design and implement new capabilities. You will be expected to improve the code quality and provide well-tested functionality that the business can depend on for success
• Our API service layer is written in Go, following a documentation-first mindset
• We use a service-oriented architecture to enable extensive unit testing with generated mocks. Our services are deployed via a CI/CD pipeline to our AWS cloud environments
• Demonstrate excellent Go development skills, with the ability to write high-quality, easily testable code
• Take refined User Stories and breaking them down into development sub-tasks
• Champion software engineering best practices, including automated tests, code refactoring, and code reviews where appropriate
• Ensure adherence to coding standards, security guidelines, and compliance requirements
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions, working closely with Product Owners
• Contribute to the development of technical roadmaps and long-term strategies, aligning with business goals
• Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies, identifying opportunities for innovation and improvement
• We’ve built a great team of top performers, and you’ll need to work with others from across the business to identify problems, agree solutions and implement changes