Developer

Role Title: Senior GoLang developer Contract duration: 12 months Location: Brighton, Burgess Hill or LondonHybrid, 3 days from the office/week Minimum years of experience: • Experience on mandatory relevant skills (Golang, Kubernetes, Docker) of 4+ years • Total experience to 5+ Good to Have Skills: Python , exposure to GCP, REST API, Kafka, NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, Couchbase, or Cassandra DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION: Minimum Qualifications: • Position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field followed by 5+ years of experience in Golang development stack. • Experience in application design, software development, and testing, preferably in an Agile environment. • Solid understanding of test-driven development, including unit, component, functional, system integration and regression tests. • Experience working with Git on small to medium sized teams. • Experience designing and developing REST APIs for high volume clients. • Experience with open-source frameworks is a plus especially maintaining or contributing to open source projects! • Experience with container and container orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes. • Comfortable/experienced with back-end micro-service architecture and communication, specifically REST and asynchronous messaging services (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ etc.) • Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, Couchbase, or Cassandra is a plus. • Experience with continuous integration tools (Github Actions, Jenkins, Gitlab CI) a plus. • Experience with automated build and test frameworks a plus. • A proven hunger to learn new technologies and translate them into working software. • Experience with Atlassian software development and collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.), a plus. • Strong ability to develop unique, outside the box ideas • Strong analytical, problem-solving/quantitative skills • Willing to take risks, experiment, and share fresh perspectives • Aptitude for learning and applying programming concepts. • Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners. Preferred Additional: • Knowledge of payments industry • Experience with coding skills across a variety of distributed technologies • Experience with a broad range of software languages and payments technologies