Systems Engineer SRE Golang - FinTech

London Source: WhatJobs

£85,000–£100,000

London, Greater London | £85k - £100k per year

Systems Engineer (SRE Golang) London / WFH to £100k

Are you a bright, ambitious technologist Systems Engineer with a strong knowledge of modern software infrastructure and robust APIs?

You could be progressing your career in a hands‑on Systems Engineer role at a scaling FinTech that is developing a fast, secure cross‑border payments platform that is designed for ultra low‑cost, near‑instant money transfer at significantly higher transaction sizes than what's currently possible, with a mission to break down the barriers that have held back African businesses for decades.

As a Systems Engineer you'll help to design and build the infrastructure that runs production applications while contributing directly to the backend codebase. Working primarily with Go / Golang, you'll tackle technically challenging problems across authentication, security, networking and WebSockets, with the opportunity to understand and influence systems right down to the operating system level.

Reliability will be central to everything you do. You'll design systems with that are resilient, adaptable and highly available, working across performance, observability and security. You'll also work with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform and Kubernetes.

You'll be collaborating with and learning from a hugely talented team.

Location / WFH:

You can work from home most of the time, meeting up with colleagues in the London office once a month.

About you:

You are degree educated, having achieved a 2.1 or above from a top tier university in a STEM discipline
You're a skilled Systems Engineer with strong Go / Golang coding skills
You have experience of designing and developing highly reliable, robust systems and APIs
You understand what is happening underneath the application and the infrastructure needed to support it
You have a strong knowledge of network, operating system and application level security
You have experience with systems observability / SRE e.g. logs, metrics
You have experience with IaC, Terraform preferred
You have a good understanding of Kubernetes and how it works
You have a good knowledge of low level programming, Kernel separation, systems calls, bare metal

What's in it for you:

As a Systems Engineer (SRE Golang) you will receive a competitive package including a range of perks: