Systems Engineer

Are you an experienced Systems Engineer with a strong knowledge of modern software infrastructure and robust APIs?

You could be progressing your career in a hands-on Senior Systems Engineer 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 Senior Systems Engineer you’ll design and build the infrastructure that runs production applications while contributing directly to the backend codebase. Working primarily with Go, 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 the assumption that failures will happen, building resilient, adaptable and highly available services, working across performance, observability and security, using logs, metrics and traces to understand system behaviour and correlate technical performance with business outcomes. You’ll also work with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform and Kubernetes, with a genuine understanding of what sits underneath these abstractions.

• You’re a skilled Senior Systems Engineer with strong Go 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
• You are degree educated, having achieved a 2.1 or above from a top tier university in a STEM discipline

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

• Salary to £130k
• Health, Dental and Vision cover for you and your family
• New MacBook Pro plus home office allowance
• Remote working and family friendly culture
• Unlimited paid time off