Senior Backend Engineer (Golang)

Senior Backend Engineer (Golang)€80,000 - €100,000 + Stock Options + Benefits Remote in the UK or Europe only Payments scale up (Series A / profitable)Did you know $48 billion was sent overseas to Sub-Saharan Africa last year, but $3.3 billion was lost in fees? Africa is the most expensive continent to send money to, and it’s time for something betterJoin a mission-driven FinTech, building a product to increase economic opportunities for Africans across the globe!They are a mobile-first product with 500k+ users, enabling users to make secure and reliable payments from the UK and the USA to Africa, charging a considerably lesser fee than competitors in the space. They're also profitable at the same time as releasing a new B2B cross-border payments API productThey’re now looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to build new features and scale the platform using Go, to work in 1 of 5 different product teams! Tech Snapshot: Go, gRPC, AWS, ECS, Terraform, Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, VaultThis is a permanent role and if outside the UK you'd be hired via a B2B contract You:Have 5+ years experience crafting scalable backend systems using Golang, making high-impact decisions to implement modern architectures on a B2B, B2C, SaaS, FinTech, or Payments product Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka, working within event-driven architectures & databases like PostgreSQL Have got stuck into most areas of DevOps (CI/ CD, Terraform) - as much as you can bring!Excellent English communication skills Please apply or message me to discuss this further