Back-End Engineer (Go)

The Back-end Engineer is a key member of our core Engineering teams, building our powerful, flexible financial crime detection engine that is used by top Financial Institutions globally to quickly and easily apply predefined scenarios or Machine Learning algorithms to customer, and transaction data.

In this role, you (Back-end Engineer) will be responsible for building high-quality features in alignment with Napier’s overall technical vision and architecture, following appropriate engineering practices (such as CI/CD, high automation and test coverage, and trunk-based development), continually improving technical debt, and evolving the system to meet changing needs and market opportunities. You’ll be a passionate hands-on technologist who is ready to do what’s needed to keep technical quality high.

Your Day To Day: Back-End Engineer (Go)

• Assuming direct development responsibility for developing, debugging and unit testing of product features in accordance with internal procedures and standards
• When required, diagnosing, and solving functional and performance/scalability issues
• Helping to improve technical practices towards a continuously releasable end-state, especially in terms of GitHub, CI/CD, and development processes

• Hands-on programming experience – Go
• Technologies & Tools – Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub
• Azure and AWS or GCP and data processing in cloud
• Database and SQL development experience, especially PostGreSQL
• Collaborative team player with strong (written and verbal) communication skills
• Comfortable working with remote engineering teams and distributed delivery models

• Programming Languages – Kotlin, Java
• Analytics engines, especially ElasticSearch
• KeyCloak
• ETL tools
• Performance engineering principles and tools
• CI/CD and DevOps tooling
• Open Telemetry and related observability tools and techniques, especially Grafana and Prometheus