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Senior Software Engineer (Golang/TypeScript/React) - Independent Contractor
About this role
Senior Software Engineer (Golang/TypeScript/React)- Independent Contractor - Working GMT-4/-5 hours 5000 USD to 6500 USD per month Europe Remote This role requires working US Eastern Time (GMT-4/GMT-5) hours to align with our team in Washington, DC (typically ~2:00 PM to 10:00 PM CET / 1:00 PM to 9:00 PM BST). We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team, responsible for working on our platform, which some of the world's biggest companies, central banks and non-governmental organisations use to build revenue and volume through data and analytics.
This is an opportunity to influence technical direction, elevate engineering standards and deliver features that make a meaningful difference to our clients. What success looks like in this role: Designing, developing, testing, maintaining and enhancing the Golang microservices and frontend applications you're responsible for Delivering beautiful, performant interfaces, driven by our design system, for our customers Taking full ownership of features from ideation to production Acting as a key voice in technical strategy, navigating the trade-offs between existing systems and new technologies and communicating architectural decisions Improving the performance and observability of our services and applications Improving the quality of life of your team and the business, through automation, process improvement or new technologies About the team: You will join a technical team of approximately 30 technologists with a key purpose of continuously and reliably collecting large amounts of financial data describing cross-border payments, then processing the data, verifying its quality and serving it to our users so that they can make informed business decisions A typical team contains around three engineers and a Product Manager You will be interacting with various stakeholders across the business in addition to your immediate team You should apply if you can confidently: Write Golang services and web app backends, and deploy them in Docker containers Build beautiful, componentised application frontends in React/TypeScript Write performant SQL Understand clean code principles and the language idioms of TypeScript and Go, review code using these principles and establish team quality standards Learn and engage with a new business domain and product Communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical people Talk about how you learn and improve your skills These skills will help, but aren’t essential: Applications with concurrent logic (i.e.