Senior Backend Engineer (Fintech, Go)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Fintech, Go): Designing, building, deploying, and operating scalable infrastructure services as part of a platform team for a fintech scale-up with an accent on distributed systems problems and robust foundational architecture. Focus on researching and adopting modern cloud-native technologies and promoting high engineering standards across code quality, testing, and automation.

Location: Hybrid role requiring 4 days onsite in London, UK

Salary: £95,000–£110,000 per annum

Company

hirify.global is one of the UK's fastest growing fintech scale-ups.

What you will do

• Design, build, deploy, and operate secure, scalable infrastructure and automation services.
• Improve and develop tools to enhance infrastructure usability for engineers.
• Research and adopt modern cloud-native technologies and best practices.
• Promote high engineering standards across code quality, testing, and automation.

Requirements

• Strong backend engineering capability (Golang, Java, or .NET).
• Strong hands-on experience building and operating distributed systems in cloud environments (AWS or GCP).
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane or similar).
• Proven track record leading platform or reliability transformations.
• Ability to influence across teams without formal authority.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on a product used by over 100,000 customers.
• Competitive benefits package.
• Committed to equal opportunities.