IT & Software

Systems Engineer SRE Golang - FinTech

Client Server

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this hands-on Systems Engineer role, you design and build the production infrastructure while contributing to the backend codebase in Go. You will tackle authentication, security, networking and WebSockets, ensuring highly available and resilient systems. You’ll work with IaC (Terraform) and Kubernetes, collaborating with a talented team to scale a fast, secure cross-border payments platform that aims to reduce costs and enable instant transfers. This role offers direct impact on mission-critical infrastructure in a fintech environment.

Pay / Benefits
  • Salary up to 100k
  • Health, Dental and Vision cover for you and your family
  • New MacBook Pro plus home office allowance
  • Remote working and family friendly culture
  • Unlimited paid time off
Responsibilities
  • design and build production infrastructure that runs applications
  • contribute to backend codebase (Go / Golang)
  • address authentication, security, networking, and WebSockets challenges
  • understand and optimize underlying OS and infrastructure
  • design systems for reliability, high availability, and adaptiveness
  • work with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and Kubernetes
  • focus on observability and SRE practices (logs, metrics)
Key requirements
  • degree in STEM with 2.1 or above from a top-tier university
  • strong Go / Golang coding skills
  • experience designing and developing reliable systems and APIs
  • understanding of underlying infrastructure and application-related security
  • knowledge of networks, operating systems and security
  • experience with observability / SRE (logs, metrics)
  • experience with IaC, Terraform preferred
  • familiarity with Kubernetes
  • knowledge of low-level programming, kernel interfaces, system calls, bare metal
  • collaborative
  • problem-solving
  • proactive learner
  • Go / Golang
  • APIs
  • authentication and security

Reference: WJ-747_30999312

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