THE ROLE 📝
As a Senior Engineer in the UK Engineering Team, you’ll be at the forefront of maintaining and enhancing mission-critical infrastructure technology for some the world’s most established banks and financial institutions.
An opportunity to make significant impact by identifying and implementing improvements that enhance the performance, scalability and reliability of high-volume payment systems. You’ll ensure our platform runs seamlessly, contributing to the backbone of UK financial operations.
You’ll collaborate with a team of talented senior engineers, tackling the challenges of securely processing millions of transactions per day, driving forward the operational excellence needed to maintain a high-performance, critical service.
WE’RE LOOKING FOR 🔍
Essential
- Deep understanding of designing and building distributed systems
- Enjoys working on complex challenges within critical software where high performance and robustness are essential
- Familiarity with cloud and containerisation technologies, test automation tools and CI/CD pipelines
- Interest in owning projects end-to-end and supporting them as they go live in production
- Appreciation of clean code and software engineering best-practice
- Experience with Go, along with a “right tool for the job” mentality
- Great communication skills who enjoy sharing knowledge and collaborating with others
Desirable
- A passion for working on mature products and a drive to improve them.
- Interest in DevOps, specifically running applications in Kubernetes.
- Experience of tools like Prometheus and Grafana, leveraging them to build a robust product observability model.
- Fearless debugging skills, working through multiple layers and confidently stepping into unknown environments and exploring them.
- A knack for identifying opportunities for internal tooling and building it.
TECH STACK ⚙️
Here are a few of the tools and methodologies we utilise:
Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Hybrid Cloud
Platform: CockroachDB, Vault, NATS, Cilium
Tools: Terraform, GitHub, Prometheus, Pact.io, Tilt
Code: Go (and a little Java), containerised microservices, open source
Ways of working: Pair Programming, 100% remote, SecDevOps
THE TEAM 👥
Team Size: You’ll be joining a group of 6-7 Senior Engineers, led by Lead Engineer.
Daily Routine: UK teams have an optional daily sync/social meeting, with daily updates provided asynchronously via Slack.
Responsibility: You’ll take ownership of the entire delivery process. This includes problem exploration, solution development, and collaborating across other functions (Product, Customer Operations, etc.)
Workflow: We embrace flexible workflow, adapting to the needs of our projects and team members. Our approach is similar to Kanban.
Estimates & Planning: Most work is customer facing, so clear communication of delivery dates is key to managing expectations. We aim to keep the process light and efficient.
Customer support: You’ll support high-volume payment products for large financial institutions and banks, helping resolve queries and investigating transaction anomalies. While day-to-day interaction with customers is minimal (we have dedicated teams to handle customer communication), significant part of the work is driven by customer requests. We’re always seeking opportunities to optimise and automate this work.
Type of work: The main challenge in front of the UK team is continuously improving the reliability, observability and performance of a mature, high-volume payments platform. This includes deep analysis of issues, designing and executing robust testing strategies, and a keen eye for noticing risk and inefficiencies with a drive to reduce them.
Objectives: Expand Form3’s position in the UK market by onboarding customers and provide them with the best platform by exceeding reliability and availability SLAs.
INTERVIEW PROCESS ✍️
Stage 1: Screening Call with Talent Team
Stage 2: Take home test
Stage 3: Team interview
Stage 4: Technical interview
We always aim to stick to the above process, however there may be occasions when an additional interview stage is needed for us to be sure we find the best fit for the role!
HIRING LOCATIONS 📍
We are able to accept applications from the following countries; Germany, Portugal, Spain & UK
ABOUT FORM3 💭
Revolutionising the world of payments with our cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions. For more information about life at Form3 check out the following pages:
What we do | Life at Form3 | Benefits | Flexa-verified employer | Podcasts
OUR DEI&B COMMITMENT
We hire talented people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences and are committed to a work environment based on diversity, open-mindedness and curiosity. We’re united by our company values (we even created them together!) and we celebrate our unique differences.
Our employee lifecycle processes are designed to embrace equal opportunity and prevent discrimination against our people regardless of personal characteristics. It is our strong belief that the more inclusive and belonging we are as a business, the better our work will be.
As an inclusive employer, we guarantee to interview all neurodiverse and physically disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for this role. We also encourage candidates to notify us of any reasonable adjustments that may be required during the recruitment process. This includes providing job adverts in alternative, accessible formats or adjustments required at interview stage.
If you consider yourself to be neurodiverse or physically disabled under the UN definition of disability and would like to be considered under this scheme and/or require any reasonable adjustments please let us know by sending an email to [email protected] clearly stating your consent for us to process this data.
For more information please refer to our Recruitment Data Policy.
Top Skills
What We Do
Form3 develop payment technology. We offer a fully managed, payment technology platform for Financial Institutions as-a-Service.Our vision is to be the worlds most trusted provider of payment technology.We design, build and run the technology that powers the future of payments.Historically, banking leaders believed that infrastructure technologies were an asset for their financial institution because they were managed locally and could be customised. Form3 is changing this model and offering payments infrastructure as a service. A fully cloud native platform that is fully managed to lower costs across operations, infrastructure, security, upgrades, and change management.Form3 has proven that there is a cheaper, simpler, and more efficient way for FI's to handle large payment volumes and scale dynamically without a heavy infrastructure burden. We enable FI’s to benefit from the flexibility, business agility and speed to market that an API-first platform brings along with embedded services that ensure they are always future-ready.Form3 work with regulated financial institutions including large Enterprise banks and digital challenger banks including Mastercard, Lloyds Banking Group, Ebury, LHV, PPS, N26, Square, Aion Bank and others.
