Senior Software Engineer (Go-Lang)

Join our team as a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Go-Lang. In this role, you will support the integration of Curve into LBG and the launch of the Lloyds Wallet and Pi3. You will design and architect our systems, contribute to continuous improvement, and deliver clean, maintainable server-side code. You will work closely with stakeholders across the business and help shape a world-class product. Additionally, you will champion new technologies, promote strong development practices, and tackle technical debt.

• Support the integration of Curve into LBG and the launch of the Lloyds Wallet and Pi3 by building elegant, performant, maintainable, operable, and secure Golang microservices.
• Design and architect systems, contribute to continuous improvement, and play a key role in making the engineering team the best it can be by delivering clean, architecturally sound and maintainable server-side code.
• Work closely with stakeholders across the business to build, measure and learn as you help shape a world-class product, and partner with product and engineering managers to refine how we build and ship.
• Ability to diagnose problems across the stack (client, HTTP/network, server, database, OS) with sound rationale for decisions
• Solid grounding in agile development practices
• Experience with both RDBMS and NoSQL datastores
• Experience building microservices, ideally deployed in containers on Kubernetes
• Proven experience building large, concurrent, distributed applications
• A genuine interest in working in a fast-paced startup, ideally in fintech or payments
• Experience developing and running large-scale production environments in partnership with DevOps or SRE teams
• 5+ years’ experience and In-depth knowledge of Golang (experience with PHP is a plus)
• Experience mentoring or coaching other engineers
• We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply
• Experience with event-driven architectures
• Experience with real-time, low-latency, high-frequency transaction-based systems