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Form3 • 100% remote (Canada)

Software Engineer (Kubernetes) - 100% Remote, East Canada Time Zones

Employment type:  Full time

Fully-remote

A little flex time

Job Description

WHO WE ARE?

Our mission started in the UK and we're currently one of the top startups to work for in the UK and Europe.

We’re now looking for outstanding Senior Software Engineers to join our new engineering team that we will be building in Canada. As one of our first Canada-based engineering hires you will have a rare and exciting opportunity to shape the product and the team we hire, you'll be working 100% remotely and cross-collaborating with our engineers based in the EU and UK. This will enable us to diversify our talent distribution and bring in some of the world's best engineers to build Form3's revolutionary payment technology platform.THE TEAM 

All our engineers work within small, agile, self-managed teams that emphasise best practice and believe quality is everyone’s responsibility. They favour collaborative development and leverage open-source tools and communities, whilst making sure to share their know-how back up stream.

THE ROLE  

 

We are looking for Software Engineers with a passion for Kubernetes to join us on an exciting journey as we build the next phase of the Form3 financial cloud SaaS platform. We currently use a cloud-native architecture running containers on AWS ECS and are now working to migrate to Kubernetes and make our platform cloud agnostic.

TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT 

 

Go, AWS, Kubernetes, TravisCI, Docker, Terraform, Vault, Consul, Linkerd, Redis, Prometheus, Postgres, Elasticsearch, PACT, Github, DevOps, TDD, BDD, Pair ProgrammingFORM3'S EARLY K8s PLATFORMObservability: Prometheus & Cortex | CI/CD: Flux | Networking: Cilium | Cloud hosting: EKS, GKE | Messaging: Nats | On-prem infrastructure management: Cloudstack & Digital rebar

 

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

  • A background in Software Engineering and solid programming experience (preferably with Go but we're flexible on this)  
  • Knowledge of Kubernetes inside-out (CKA & CKAD qualifications are a plus)
  • Experience migrating AWS ECS to Kubernetes (ideally)
  • Excitement towards the idea of building the next generation Form3 platform on Kubernetes, helping to solve technical challenges around how to make our platform cloud agnostic and scaleable in order to handle billions of payments  

BENEFITS

  • 30 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays 
  • Remote friendly environment 
  • Remote working equipment allowance
  • Flexible working arrangements 
  • Udemy and educational reimbursements 
  • Full details are available on our careers page

Form3 appreciates that we all lead different and often really busy lives. We work remotely 100% of the time and many of us work part time. If you’re interested in hearing what different flexible working arrangements may be available, we’d love to chat.

Please note that all our engineering teams are currently based in the EU and UK. Due to time-zone differences and working practicalities, we’re only able to hire Engineers based in Canada East timezones or based in Canada and able to work close to GMT-4. However, this may change in the future as we start streamlining some of our internal structure and recruitment processes in Canada

ABOUT US 

We are an award-winning cloud-native payment technology provider for financially regulated institutions. Launched in 2016, we've doubled in size year on year as we continue to redefine what a truly instant payment experience means. 

We celebrate diversity, promote entrepreneurialism and are committed to giving everyone a say in shaping our business. Here you will grow as a person and accomplish incredible things. A career at Form3 is empowering, inspiring and fun. Join us and help shape the future of payments.  

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES 

At Form3 we embrace equal opportunity and are committed to building a diverse team of exceptional individuals. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status and it is our strong belief that the more inclusive we are as a business, the better our work will be.

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave
Adoption leave
Work from anywhere scheme
Summer hours
Enhanced sick pay
Teambuilding days
Wellbeing allowance
Mental health platform access
Bank holiday swaps
Share options
L&D budget
Cycle to work scheme
Udemy and educational reimbursements
Location
85%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours
85%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
78%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
79%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
90%
Employees feel that flexible working is part of the culture
Autonomy
89%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Working at Form3

Company employees

+500 globally

Gender diversity (male:female)

73:27

Office locations

Remote (EU) / London

Funding levels

$160,000,000

Hiring Countries

Netherlands
United Kingdom
United States

Awards & Achievements

Finance & Insurance

Finance & Insurance

Industry awards 2023
3rd – Medium companies

3rd – Medium companies

Flexa100 2023
Finance & Insurance

Finance & Insurance

Industry awards 2022