Senior Platform Developer Remote
Job description
100% Remote (Ontario or Quebec*)
Build, run and maintain the infrastructure behind our cloud-native systems, working with tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP & NATS to ensure the reliability and scalability of our entire platform.
- We can currently only accept applications from Ontario and Quebec (East Coast).
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 Developers to join our new engineering team that we will be building in East Coast Canada. As one of our first Canada-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 developers based in the EU and UK. This will enable us to diversify our talent distribution and bring in some of the world's best developers to build Form3's revolutionary payment technology platform.
THE TEAM
All our developers work within small, agile, self-managed teams that emphasise best practices 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 a Senior Platform Engineer with a passion for architecting and building cloud native systems. Within this role, you will have the opportunity to work on our own private cloud which is hosted in Form3 data centres and to help us build the next generation Form3 platform which will run across multiple public clouds.
TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT
Go, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, TravisCI, Docker, Terraform, Vault, Consul, Linkerd, Redis, Prometheus, Postgres, Cockroach DB, Elasticsearch, PACT, Github, DevOps, TDD, BDD, Pair Programming
FORM3'S PRIVATE CLOUD TECHNOLOGY
Observability: Prometheus | CI/CD: Flux | Networking: Cilium | Cloud hosting: EKS, GKE | Messaging: NATS | Storage: CockroachDB | On-prem infrastructure management: Terraform with Terraform Enterprise | Virtualization: Cloudstack, KVM & Digital rebar
FORM3'S MULTI PUBLIC CLOUD TECHNOLOGY
Observability: Prometheus | CI/CD: Flux v2 | Networking: Linkerd2 | Cloud hosting: EKS, GKE, AKS | Messaging: NATS JETSTREAM | Storage: CockroachDB | Infrastructure management: Terraform with Terraform Enterprise | Virtualization: AWS EC2, GCP Compute
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Experience in Infrastructure as Code patterns and practices (Terraform is a plus)
- Knowledge of networking and DNS
- A background in Software Engineering and solid programming experience is beneficial but not essential (preferably Go but we're flexible on this)
- Knowledge of Kubernetes (ideally)
- Enthusiasm towards building the next generation Form3 platform and an interest in technical challenges around how to make a platform cloud agnostic and scaleable in order to process billions of payments
BENEFITS
- 30 days holidays plus public holidays
- Health Insurance
- 100% remote work
- Flexible working arrangements
- Health & wellness allowance
- Remote working equipment allowance
- Primary caregiver leave
- 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.
HIRING LOCATIONS
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 [email protected] clearly stating your consent for us to process this data.
