Form 3

Form 3

Oldham, London

Remote Senior Software Engineer (Go)

Full-Time£64,000 - 104,000 per yearanteayerUnited Kingdom
IT

Job Description

Salary: £64,000 - 104,000 per year

Requirements:
  • Deep understanding of designing and building distributed systems
  • Experience working on complex challenges in critical software where high performance and robustness are essential
  • Familiarity with cloud and containerisation technologies, test automation tools, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience with Go and a strong right tool for the job mindset
  • Appreciation of clean code and software engineering best practices
  • Strong communication skills and enjoyment of knowledge sharing and collaboration
  • Interest in owning projects end-to-end and supporting them through production
Responsibilities:
  • Design, build, and run cloud-native microservices in Go that power our real-time payments platform
  • Build highly available, low-latency, and scalable systems that handle billions of payment requests with precision and resilience
  • Take full ownership of services from initial design and implementation through deployment and production support
  • Work with cost-efficiency, observability, and operational excellence as core principles
  • Collaborate closely with other engineers in a flat, autonomous team structure
  • Contribute to code quality, simplicity, and continuous improvement
  • Work with modern tooling and technologies including Golang, Kubernetes, CockroachDB, and NATS JetStream in a highly automated DevOps environment
Technologies:
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud
  • CockroachDB
  • DevOps
  • GCP
  • Golang
  • Support
  • Kubernetes
  • NATS
  • microservices
  • Backbone
  • CQRS
  • ElasticSearch
  • GitHub
  • Java
  • Prometheus
  • TDD
  • Terraform

More:

We are Form3, and our mission is to design, build, and run the technology that will power the future of payments. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help shape critical infrastructure for global payments, with a focus on secure, reliable, real-time systems at scale. Our engineering team is remote-first, highly collaborative, and operates in small autonomous teams with a flat structure and minimal bureaucracy. We value clean code, automation, simplicity, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement. We work with modern cloud-native technologies including Golang, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, CockroachDB, NATS JetStream, and more. We can accept applications from Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, and the UK, and our interview process includes a screening call, take-home test, technical interview, and team interview. We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and accessibility, and we guarantee interviews for neurodiverse and physically disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria.

last updated 40 week of 2026

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About Form 3

Form 3

Form 3

Oldham

IT

Skills & Technologies

JavaGoScalaAWSAzureGCPKubernetesTerraformGitCI/CDElasticsearchREST

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