Mid Backend Engineer (Golang) Holborn, London

Applied Intuition Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology company is seeking a Mid level Backend Engineer to develop scalable operations and provide high-quality financial support. The ideal candidate should have solid Golang expertise and experience in database design. This hybrid role offers flexibility with 2 days working from home and requires collaboration with product managers and frontend teams to deliver innovative solutions. A base salary ranging from £50,000 to £72,500 is offered, along with various benefits including a share incentive plan and private medical insurance.

Benefits

Flexible working

Make a difference

Work from anywhere

Join a diverse team

Rapid career growth

Share incentive plan and team bonus

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software development using strongly-typed languages.
• At least 1+ year of commercial experience using Golang.
• Experience in product engineering and solving customer problems.

Responsibilities

• Writing, testing, and deploying great software.
• Collaborating with tech leads and other engineers.
• Working in an Agile team and conducting code reviews.

Skills

Golang

Database design

Problem-solving

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

SQL

NoSQL

Terraform

Job description

We’re looking for a Mid level Backend Engineer with solid Golang and database skills to help us build the scalable operations, technology, and processes needed to transform 5 million lives by making high-quality financial support affordable and accessible to employees everywhere.

This is an ideal opportunity for a motivated self-starter to accelerate their career, taking a broad and varied role within a rapidly growing company. We pride ourselves on building an inclusive working environment where diversity is celebrated.

About Octopus Money

At Octopus Money, we’re on a mission to make money advice accessible to all – because the right advice can turn your life dreams into reality.

The facts are alarming: half of Brits reach retirement age without enough money to live the life they want, financial stress is a leading cause of poor mental health, and only 8% of us have access to 1‑to‑1 advice.

There’s plenty of information out there, but most of us just wish that someone we trust would tell us what to do with our money!

With Octopus, you get a personalised plan and a friendly expert to help you make it happen. We combine advisers, coaches, and technology to understand your situation and recommend the right steps for your savings, investments, pensions and more. Then, we make it easy to invest in a custom portfolio, managed by experts.

We believe everyone deserves personal, 1‑to‑1 advice with their money.

The role and opportunity

Our development team is composed of multiple squads, each taking ownership of a vertical within our product. Each squad is composed of a product manager, frontend and backend engineers.

Our front‑end stack is built on React with Typescript, using MUI as a base for our design system, and leveraging microfrontend deployments. Our backend stack is powered by Golang, providing REST APIs.

We are looking for a problem solver who can work with the existing platform and front end engineers, collaborating closely with tech leads, design, and product managers.

As the company continues to scale, there will be opportunities to be involved in the technical architecture and strategy for our products and tech stack. The role has the potential to evolve into a Senior Engineer for the right candidate as the team grows.

Responsibilities

• Writing, testing and deploying great software
• Collaborating with the tech leads and other Engineers on deciding future technologies and processes
• Working with modern and new technologies and frameworks
• Working in an Agile team
• Building relationships with product and design
• Conducting code reviews and pairing with other colleagues

About you

Collaborative and a great team player – We’ve built a great team of top performers, and you’ll need to work with others from across the business to identify problems, agree solutions and implement changes.

Problem solver at heart with an analytical mindset – You should be someone who gets excited by complex problems and can find creative ways to solve them no matter what your level of knowledge and experience with the subject matter. You should be able to digest complexity and develop a plan to move forward, without losing sight of the important details.

Excellent technical knowledge – As an Engineer, you should be an expert in at least one aspect of software development and skilled in other areas. You have learned that delivering great software takes a team and has plenty of pitfalls to avoid.

Knowledge and experience required

• 3+ years expertise in software development using strongly‑typed languages (e.g. Go, Java, or similar), with at least 1+ year of commercial experience using Golang.
• Product‑engineering experience (e.g. solving customer problems, delivering on business goals, working with product managers and frontend teams) with Golang.
• Strong experience writing easily‑testable and thoroughly‑tested code.
• Data modelling and DB design experience with SQL or NoSQL DBs.
• Distributed system and messaging event‑driven architecture experience.
• Empathetic, proactive and constructive communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across teams.
• Able to work three days a week onsite at our London office in 33 Holborn, EC1N 2HT.

Nice to have (but not essential)

• SaaS knowledge and experience.
• Microservice and integrating distributed systems with messaging and event‑driven architectures.
• Experience using Terraform, or other infrastructure as code tooling.
• Educated to Bachelor's or Master’s degree level in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Salary and benefits

In return we offer a base salary of £50,000 to £72,500 DOE, plus benefits.

We are required to run background checks for all employees, covering adverse financial and unspent convictions. These will only take place upon a successful job offer.

Perks & Benefits

• Make a difference – Seeing the impact we can make on our client’s lives is deeply rewarding.
• Flexible working – Hybrid model with 2 days per week working from home and the remainder in our London office.
• Work from anywhere – 18 day work‑from‑anywhere allowance to swap on‑site days or work from another country.
• Join a great team – Diverse team with decades of experience in financial services.
• Rapidly grow your career – Opportunities for ambitious new joiners to demonstrate skills and take on larger roles.
• Share incentive plan and team bonus – Group share incentive plan and team bonus if goals met.
• Pension, enhanced parental leave, private medical insurance and other perks.

Equal opportunity statement

We believe in equal financial education for everybody, no matter their background. We pride ourselves on building an inclusive working environment where diversity is celebrated.

We do not and never will discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

If you require support completing your application, please contact Luke Stepney, Head of Talent at [e-mail].