React) - Contractor

FXC Intelligence

18h•Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Applications with concurrent logic (i.e. goroutines)
Building CI/CD pipelines, especially with GitLab CI
Configuring and using observability tools (e.g. Prometheus and Grafana)
Experience utilising AI to increase productivity and efficiency of work and productionised AI tools
MaterialUI
Using Airflow, Python or Terraform

Responsibilities

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