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GO Senior Software EngineerThunes · London, England, United Kingdom
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GO Senior Software Engineer

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-31 London, England, United Kingdom Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 6,250 GBP–8,333 GBP/mo
Location: Europe Work type: On-site Employment: Full-time

About the Company

Thunes is the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world. Thunes' proprietary Direct Global Network allows Members to make payments in real-time in over 130 countries and more than 80 currencies. Thunes' network connects directly to over 7 billion mobile wallets and bank accounts worldwide, as well as 15 billion cards via more than 320 different payment methods, such as GCash, M-Pesa, Airtel, MTN, Orange, JazzCash, Easypaisa, AliPay, WeChat Pay and many more. Thunes' Direct Global Network differentiates itself through its worldwide reach, in-house SmartX Treasury System and Fortress Compliance Platform, ensuring Members of the network receive unrivaled speed, control, visibility, protection and cost efficiencies when making real-time payments, globally. Members of Thunes' Direct Global Network include gig economy giants like Uber and Deliveroo, super-apps like Grab and WeChat, MTOs, fintechs, PSPs and banks. Headquartered in Singapore, Thunes has offices in 14 locations, including Abidjan, Barcelona, Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, London, Manila, Nairobi, Paris, Riyadh, San Francisco and Shanghai.

About the Job

As a Senior Software Engineer (Golang) based in Europe, you will bring great opportunities to work on various projects and technologies with a diverse range of teams. The Engineering team is responsible for developing core business products and getting them to production in the most efficient and fastest way possible, architecting solutions, tools and platforms to solve business needs around provisioning, configuration, CICD, monitoring, SLA, performance and uptime. Processing millions of transactions per month and interconnecting hundreds of partners from all around the world, you will combine a startup mindset with the scale of an industry leader, working on core platform and services to create the future of the company by ensuring scalability and performance, delivering new functionalities, and automating and improving development processes.

Role & Responsibilities

  • ● Work on highly available services, exposed mainly by APIs
  • ● Participate in the design, implementation and shipping of new products to internal and external stakeholders
  • ● Deliver high quality, testable, secure, readable, scalable and documented software
  • ● Understand, apply and champion the principles of the agile methodology (code reviews, sprint planning, pair programming, daily stand-ups, etc.)
  • ● Assist in the evaluation of new technologies and initiatives

Requirements

Education

  • ● Preferably a degree in Information Technology, Engineering Computer Science or related fields

Experience

  • ● Experience with Event-Driven Architecture and message brokers (e.g., AWS SNS/SQS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ)
  • ● Experience with relational databases (e.g, PostgreSQL, MySQL)

Skills

  • ● Software engineers that are motivated, curious and have an appetite for learning
  • ● Proficient in Golang
  • ● Passionate about Agile Methodology and practices (TDD, CI, CD, etc..)
  • ● Experience designing and developing web and API solutions
  • ● Interest in the Fintech Industry and market innovations

Benefits

  • ● Culture of learning and feedback
  • ● Environment where you own your code and deploy multiple times per day
  • ● Technology used 24/7 and around the world requiring reliable, secure and massively scalable solutions
  • ● Interface with technology teams in different countries
  • ● Environment and packages matching the ambition of the company to build world class engineering teams