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TechShack

Senior Go Engineer

TechShack
United Kingdom · Full-time · Mid-Senior

Golang Engineer – Fintech


We're hiring a Golang Engineer for a fast-growing fintech building payment infrastructure used across the EU/UK. The team supports PSPs, EMIs and digital banking platforms, operating at scale within a regulated environment. Strong domain knowledge is essential.


Role Overview:

You’ll work on the core payment gateway; designing, developing and optimising Go-based services that power high-volume financial operations.

Expect involvement in microservices architecture, secure system design and integrations with external payment providers.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Build stable, fault-tolerant Go services for payment and settlement flows
  • Design APIs, data models and service-level integrations
  • Implement security-first development practices (PCI DSS, secure data handling)
  • Improve performance through profiling, concurrency and efficient data/storage use
  • Contribute to microservices architecture decisions (service boundaries, patterns, queues/streams)
  • Maintain quality through testing and code reviews
  • Provide practical, domain-informed input to technical discussions


Essential Experience:

  • 3–5 years Go + ~5 years backend/fintech experience
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems and API design (REST/RPC)
  • SQL/NoSQL databases, message brokers (Kafka or NATS), caching
  • CI/CD pipelines (preferably GitLab) and AWS
  • Observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
  • Experience integrating with processors, acquirers or anti-fraud systems
  • Security-by-design approach and familiarity with compliance standards (PCI DSS, GDPR)


Golang Engineer – Fintech

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Posted
Dec 01, 2025
Type
Full-time
Level
Mid-Senior
Location
United Kingdom
Company
TechShack

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