Senior Software Engineer (Kubernetes)

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 Argentina. As one of our first Argentina-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, UK & Canada. 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.

Form3 have recently completed a third round of funding, raising $160 million meaning we are looking to grow our Engineering team significantly as part of our 5-year road-map. As a result, we have multiple vacancies open for this position, as well as across other roles in our Engineering team. With this in mind, if this role isn't the right fit for you, please do take a look at our other Engineering vacancies on our website here.

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. For our FPS gateway, we currently run bare metal kubernetes clusters in our data centre meshed together with kubernetes clusters from public cloud providers. There are many exciting projects we have working with this cutting edge technology.

TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT
Go, AWS, Kubernetes, TravisCI, Docker, Terraform, Vault, Consul, Linkerd, Redis, Prometheus, Postgres, Elasticsearch, PACT, Github, DevOps, TDD, BDD, Pair Programming

FORM3'S EARLY K8s PLATFORM

Observability: 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

At Form3, we're really proud to be an international employer that fosters a diverse and multicultural work environment. However, we do use English as the main form of work and business communication i.e., pair programming. As a result, we explicitly require all applicants to submit their CV in English.

BENEFITS

• 100% remote work
• Flexible working arrangements
• Health & wellness allowance
• Remote working equipment allowance
• 4 hours of “investment time” per week, to spend working on projects that you are passionate about improving
• Mental Health support via Spill
• Perlego subscription
• Learning days, Udemy and educational reimbursement etc.

Full details 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. 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.

OUR DEI&B COMMITMENT

We hire talented people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences and are committed to a work environment based on diversity, open-mindedness and curiosity. We’re united by our company values (we even created them together!) and we celebrate our unique differences.

Our employee lifecycle processes are designed to embrace equal opportunity and prevent discrimination against our people regardless of personal characteristics. It is our strong belief that the more inclusive and belonging we are as a business, the better our work will be.

As an inclusive employer, we guarantee to interview all neurodiverse and physically disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for this role. We also encourage candidates to notify us of any reasonable adjustments that may be required during the recruitment process. This includes providing job adverts in alternative, accessible formats or adjustments required at interview stage.

If you consider yourself to be neurodiverse or physically disabled under the UN definition of disability and would like to be considered under this scheme and/or require any reasonable adjustments please let us know by sending an email to careers@form3.tech clearly stating your consent for us to process this data.

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