Job Description
Job Title: Senior Golang Engineer
About the Opportunity:
MateHR is currently seeking a highly experienced Backend Engineer on behalf of one of our most ambitious clients rapidly scaling fintech startup that's reshaping global transaction services and B2C Financing. This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-scaling company with a cross-continent presence. You'll become part of a passionate, collaborative team committed to delivering impactful financial solutions.
Role Overview:
As a Senior Golang Developer, you will play a key role in expanding the company's global remittance and payout capabilities. You'll design and build backend services that integrate new payout partners, support additional currencies, and abstract complex banking and payment flows into simple, reliable APIs.
This role goes beyond API integrations—you will help architect the core layers that normalize fragmented global financial systems, ensuring transactions are consistent, secure, and scalable regardless of destination.
Your Impact:
Backend Engineering & Architecture
Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Golang
Build clean, well-structured RESTful APIs that support high-volume financial transactions
Apply Domain-Driven Design and modular architecture principles
Ensure strong data consistency, security, and privacy across all systems
Write high-quality, maintainable, production-grade code with strong test coverage
Contribute to technical documentation and architectural decision-making
Reliability & Operations:
- Own features end-to-end, from design through deployment and post-release support
- Implement gradual rollout strategies (feature flags, traffic ramp-ups, blue/green deployments)
- Define and monitor SLAs/SLOs using metrics, logging, and tracing
Participate in an on-call rotation following a you build it, you run it model
Collaboration & Ownership:
Work closely with Product, QA, and other engineering teams
Support compliant financial solutions aligned with regulatory and customer requirements
Take initiative, make decisions within your domain, and drive improvements proactively
Your Background:
Technical Skills
- 5+ years of backend development experience, with strong hands-on experience in Golang
- Proven experience building and operating scalable backend systems
Solid knowledge of PostgreSQL (schema evolution, transaction isolation, query optimization)
Experience with Redis and common caching patterns
Strong understanding of asynchronous processing (Kafka, message queues, event-driven systems, goroutines)
- Experience working with observability stacks (logging, metrics, distributed tracing)
Proficiency with Docker and containerized environments
Strong understanding of RESTful API design principles
Soft Skills & Mindset
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with attention to detail
- High sense of ownership and accountability
- Clear communicator who collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams
Curious, growth-oriented mindset with openness to feedback
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience setting up or maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions)
Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated environments
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Why Join:
- Work on mission-critical fintech systems with real global impact
- High ownership and autonomy in technical decision-making
Exposure to complex, real-world financial infrastructure challenges
Opportunity to grow with a fast-scaling, international product
70 000 EUR - 110 000 EUR (Annual)
If you are passionate about backend engineering excellence and eager to contribute to a thriving fintech leader, welcomes your application.
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