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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Understanding Recruitment
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Databases, Payment Systems, Blockchain, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Golang
- **Published:** November 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.understandingrecruitment.com/job/senior-software-engineer-9311/

## About the Role

* Strong Go experience
 * Experience building distributed, event-driven systems.
 * Good knowledge of databases, messaging, APIs and AWS.
 * The initiative to take an open-ended problem and deliver a working solution.

## Description

Senior Golang Engineer | Global Payments

UK Remote | London office available

I'm partnering with a fast-growing fintech building a stablecoin-native alternative to traditional business banking.

With fresh funding secured and customer demand accelerating, they're hiring a Senior Golang Engineer to help expand their platform across global payments, accounts and card products.

Job Responsibilities

 * Build backend services in Go to move, settle and account for customer funds.
 * Develop integrations across banks, payment networks and blockchain systems.
 * Design distributed services that handle failures without compromising payment accuracy.
 * Own systems from architecture through deployment, monitoring and scaling.
 * Work directly with product and compliance to launch new financial products.

Skills/Experience Required

 * Strong Go experience
 * Experience building distributed, event-driven systems.
 * Good knowledge of databases, messaging, APIs and AWS.
 * The initiative to take an open-ended problem and deliver a working solution.

Why This Role/Company?

The business has spent the last few years building its infrastructure. Now, customer adoption is accelerating, and the engineering team is expanding what the platform can do.

You'll join a small team with substantial ownership over critical systems, direct input into technical decisions and the opportunity to build new products from their earliest stages.

Interested? Get in touch with Chris Williams