Golang / Go Job: Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer at Envision World

🇬🇧 United Kingdom › London   (Posted Jul 26 2016)

Job position
Permanent - Remote work possible

Job description
About Envision:
Envision is a FinTech start-up company based at Level 39 Canary Wharf London, europe’s largest technology accelerator for FinTech. Envision is also a member of the Innovate Finance and very actively engaged with the London’s fast paced FinTech community. At Envision we believe in a future free from the complexity of the payments eco-system and 100% peace of mind guaranteed for our customers from the risk of growing online fraud.

Envision is building a digital payments platform that connects smaller and medium-sized businesses in Europe and SMEs from the emerging markets to their consumers in the developed economies. Our platform is a simple, secure and affordable way for the businesses to integrate their online stores, mobile apps to receive payments from all major credit/ debit cards. We make integration very simple with clear documentation and clean APIs so any business can integrate their website or apps to our platform without the help of any skilled developer. We also offer secure payment transactions and 100% chargeback guarantees giving our customers complete peace of mind to grow their business.

Growth of global eCommerce requires an affordable, easy to integrate, secure and open to all payments platform, especially in emerging markets. We believe that people are inherently innovative and every community has something unique to offer the world given the opportunity and the platform for launch and growth. Envision’s goal is to connect millions of businesses and entrepreneurs with innovative products from the emerging markets to their international consumers and growth of cross-border transactions that still suffers from the risk of online fraud. We want to contribute to the world in meaningful ways in connecting and empowering entrepreneurs from communities that nobody has served before while also building the foundation of a very successful and forward looking business.

We are building the initial development team, so you will have opportunity to influence the development from the beginning, and not have to try and maintain old or deprecated code.

Please note this position is 100% remote, and we are welcoming applications from all over the world.

Skills & requirements
Required:
At least 5 years experience as a Backend Software Engineer.
Experience working with Golang.
Strong knowledge of OAuth2, Design Patterns, REST apis.
Working knowledge of ElasticSearch, Elastalert, Graphana, Kibana.
Experience with SQL and noSQL databases.
Comfortable with Mac OS X and/or Linux (Debian/Ubuntu).
Knowledge of TDD principles, and testing frameworks.
Excellent communicator. You can chat, skype, email efficiently.
Good at explaining and mentoring less experienced team members.

Extra:
Familiarity with Git, Jira, Bitbucket, Bamboo or VSTS desired.
Previous experience working remotely.
Understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum // Kanban).
A familiarity with Payment Systems and PCI-DSS requirements would be extremely advantageous.

Personal Skills:
Individual with a passion and enthusiasm to take on bigger challenges and stretching goals.
Success mindset.
Proactive and creative self-starter.
Problem solver with positive mental and learning attitude.
Team player with strong interpersonal, communication skills.
Can work in small team with a vision to grow.

Apply now!