Senior Software Developer Go - US Instant Payments

THE ROLE 📝

Join Form3 ’s US engineering business line and contribute to the development of our US gateway products, each built around a real-time payment scheme such as FedNow or TCH RTP. Reporting to the Lead Engineer and supported by our Staff Engineers, you will play a key role in building mission-critical systems that we believe will transform how payments are made in the US. Come and play a significant role in building critical systems that we believe will change the way the US makes payments!

On a day-to-day basis, you will contribute to feature development, system design and testing; manage and enhance our infrastructure; and support daily product operations, including participation in the on-call rotation. US gateways are built on top of Form3 ’s cutting-edge multi-cloud platform and are in advance stages of development, ready to onboard first customers. As a Senior Software Engineer in a gateway team, you will play a crucial role in making it happen.

WE’RE LOOKING FOR 🔍

Our ideal candidate:

• Has a deep understanding of designing and building distributed systems
• Enjoys working on complex challenges within critical software where high performance and robustness are essential
• Is familiar with cloud and containerisation technologies, test automation tools and CI/CD pipelines
• Expresses interest in owning projects end-to-end and supporting them as they go live in production
• Has appreciation of clean code and software engineering best-practice
• Is experienced in programming in Go but also demonstrates a “right tool for the job” mentality
• Possesses great communication skills and enjoys sharing knowledge and collaborating with others

TECH STACK ⚙️

• Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes
• Platform: CockroachDB, Elasticsearch, Vault, NATS
• Tools: Terraform, GitHub, Prometheus, Tilt
• Code: Go (and a little Java), containerised microservices, CQRS, open-source
• Ways of working: TDD/BDD, Pair Programming, 100% remote, SecDevOps

THE TEAM 👥

The USA business line consists of engineers distributed in two teams. We are spread across multiple time zones in Europe and the Americas and therefore we highly value asynchronous communication. We give engineers autonomy to choose the right solutions for the problems they face and drive technical design. We encourage collaboration, make key decisions as a group and own our solutions end-to-end. We also keep close relationships with our Product colleagues who are domain experts in US payments. Our current focus is to complete functional build and prepare for Form3 ’s US products’ go-lives, targeted for Autumn 2025 – we are excited to show our products to the world!

INTERVIEW PROCESS ✍️

Stage 1: Screening Call with Talent Team

Stage 2: Take-home tech test

Stage 3