Mid Backend Engineer; Golang Holborn

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.

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.

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 microfront end 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.

• 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

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.

• 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 No
  
  SQL 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…