Staff Backend Engineer (Go Lang)

Full Description

Hybrid Opportunity ( 1 day per week from the office)

About the Opportunity:

MateHR is currently seeking a highly experienced Staff Backend Engineer on behalf of one of our most ambitious clients rapidly scaling fintech startup that's reshaping global transaction services. We’re hiring for top-tier talent with strong Go Lang and architectural leadership experience. This exciting organisation is quickly expanding its presence internationally, notably making significant strides within the UK market. You'll become part of a passionate, collaborative team committed to delivering impactful financial solutions.

Role Overview:

As a core member of the backend team, you will play a vital role in developing and scaling sophisticated backend systems that process tens of millions of cross-border transactions monthly. Your responsibilities will range from geographical expansion projects to anti-fraud initiatives and optimising transaction efficiency, significantly impacting users worldwide. This is a hybrid position, requiring at least one day per week in the office located in London.

Your Impact:

• Guide architectural and technical direction across various teams, executing scalable solutions from design through to deployment.

• Solve intricate technical problems, taking ownership of mission-critical components and establishing standards of excellence.

• Set and maintain high-quality benchmarks for system architecture, design patterns, testing, reliability, and performance.

• Collaborate extensively with senior stakeholders across product, data analytics, and growth teams, aligning engineering objectives with strategic business goals.

• Mentor and grow team members, enhancing their technical and leadership capabilities.

• Facilitate team effectiveness by clarifying ambiguous challenges, eliminating obstacles, and making sound technical decisions.

• Refine engineering practices and standards, improving tooling and processes for sustained long-term impact.

Technical Expertise:

• Experience with driving architectural and technical strategy across multiple teams is a must

• 7+ years of professional experience in backend development with a strong focus on scalable, production-ready systems.

• Deep expertise in backend technologies, including hands-on experience with Go Lang for building distributed services.

• Proven track record of driving technical excellence in observability covering logging, metrics, and distributed tracing.

• Skilled in designing, building, and evolving RESTful APIs, with a focus on long-term maintainability and backward compatibility.

• Practical application of Domain-Driven Design and modular architecture to manage complexity and improve codebase clarity.

• Experience with asynchronous processing patterns such as coroutines, message queues, and event streaming with Kafka.

• Strong knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL), including schema evolution, query optimization, and transaction handling.

• Understanding of caching strategies and effective use of tools like Redis to improve performance and scalability.

• Solid grasp of secure coding practices, with awareness of OWASP and other industry standards.

• Hands-on experience using container technologies (e.g., Docker) throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Advocates for pragmatic, shift-left test automation practices to ensure reliability and speed.

• Ability to translate product and business requirements into AWS-based architectures, balancing security, cost-efficiency, and simplicity

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience within the fintech or banking sectors.

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.

Why Join:

• Engage with a visionary fintech startup influencing millions globally.

• We offer a competitive salary 80’000 - 120,000 GBP annual gross plus meaningful equity, reflecting the seniority and impact of this Staff Engineer role

• Collaborate closely with industry experts and senior leadership.

• Opportunities for significant professional growth and influence within the engineering community.

If you are passionate about backend engineering excellence and eager to contribute to a thriving fintech leader, MateHR welcomes your application

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: Hybrid remote in London,

Application deadline: 01/08/2025