Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer - Join a scaling FinTech - Take ownership of a new product

Up to £90,000

Fully Remote

Golang, TypeScript & Docker - flexible with Backend experience, so long as you're happy to learn Golang

We're currently partnered with a scaling Series A FinTech who are currently looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join their team as they build a new product within the payments industry.

The business has had significant growth this year already with recent investment and they are now looking to build new products to revolutionize the payments industry.

As a Senior Engineer, you'll be joining a team who are responsible for developing a payment product that will have a global impact and this role requires a high level of autonomy and problem solving abilities.

What will you be doing:

• Develop and design robust & scalable payment applications and services
• Maintain and build APIs and microservices architecture for payment systems
• Implement secure payment protocols
• Support the team in developing real-time transactions processing
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver feature requirements
• Maintain and write clean and well-tested code following best practices
• Get involved in code reviews and maintain high code quality standards
• Contribute to system architecture and technical design decisions

What are they looking for:

• Software development experience preferably in backend systems - current tech stack is Golang and they are open to other backend technologies
• Experience building RESTful APIs
• Good understanding of database design and optimization
• Knowledge of distributed systems concepts and patterns
• Good engineering principles include unit, integration and end-to-end testing

If this sounds like a great opportunity and you'd like to find out more, please reach out to me on

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.