Senior Software Engineer - DailyPay

The Role:

You’ll work alongside a supportive, high-impact team of skilled backend developers to improve how other teams deploy and access their services, how we move data across our platform, and how we automate operations to enable future scale.

Our backend engineering teams specialise in developing robust and scalable Go microservices, leveraging a tech stack that includes AWS, Docker, Postgres, and Kafka. We’re looking for engineers who are passionate about building high-quality solutions and who thrive in a dynamic and collaborative environment.

How You Will Make an Impact:

• Design, develop and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
• Contribute to the transition to microservices, designing APIs and event-driven architecture.
• Optimise database performance and data structures for high-traffic, real-time applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business needs.
• Mentor engineers, perform code-reviews and drive best practices in Golang.

What You Bring to The Team:

• 4+ years hands on software development experience with at least 2 years working with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, etc.)
• Demonstrated proficiency writing maintainable, high quality, robust code.
• Experience in designing and developing micro services in one or more cloud computing services (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc).
• Experience with SQL databases.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a pragmatic approach to engineering problems and a demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies.
• Knowledge of message queues (SQS, Kafka, etc.) and asynchronous processing patterns.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

If this opportunity excites you, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the qualifications.

Nice to Haves:

• Understanding of Agile or Kanban / Lean software development methodologies
• Experience using Jira for software engineering
• Experience building and designing complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Experience building large scale distributed services
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs
• Experience developing and mentoring more junior engineers
• Good knowledge of conventional and cloud-based infrastructure, and basic networking

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation
• Opportunity for equity ownership
• Private health insurance option
• Employee Resource Groups
• Fun company outings and events
• Generous PTO Allowance
• 5% Pension contribution