Golang Fintech Jobs in Australia

Job Description

About the Role

Zero Hash is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help architect and build new features, as well as scaling the gateway to Finance 2.0. We are a high performing team looking for an equally ambitious and driven teammate.

The right candidate for this position is detail oriented, deeply technical, and driven. You are eager to learn new technologies and complex systems. You build resiliency and scalability into the platform at every step.

If you're looking to have a massive impact in a high-growth startup in one of the most exciting markets in decades, you will find this role challenging and rewarding in equal measure.

This fully remote role is open to candidates in any APAC timezone.

#LI-Remote

Responsibilities

• Support the company’s vital business by contributing to the design and
  development of software in an event-driven microservices environment
• Develop microservices in Golang and Python
• Work with platform engineers to setup new services
• Respond to production issues and alerts
• When necessary, communicate directly with client technical teams

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience, preferably in the FinTech space
• A humble and scrappy get-it-done mindset; you’re resourceful and in your
  element going from 0 to 1
• Excellent problem solving skills - can troubleshoot complex systems
• Deep Proficiency with at least one of Python and Golang and experience with
  the other.
• Understanding of SQL and database schema design
• Comfort with ambiguity; the ability to independently lay out and test clear
  hypotheses and solve problems without well-defined direction
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred

• Bachelors in computer science or equivalent experience
• Experience with the SciPy stack, specifically Pandas
• Experience at a banking-as-a-service, brokerage-as a service, payment-as-a- service business
• An understanding around financial services reconciliation tools
• Experience with digital assets
• Experience with yield-generating products

Benefits Offered

We believe that the best way to succeed is by having a happy, motivated and healthy team. We offer the following benefits:

• Healthcare Insurance: Zero Hash covers roughly 100% of employee premiums as well as a portion of spouse/children
• Vision & Dental Insurance
• Mental Health and Wellness Program
• Work equipment
• Equity Ownership and Early Exercise
• Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Educational budget of $1000
• WFH stipend of $500
• WeWork All Access Membership
• Visa Sponsorship
• 401k

About Zero Hash

Zero Hash is a B2B embedded infrastructure platform that allows any platform to integrate digital assets natively into their own customer experience quickly and easily (a matter of API endpoints). We power neo-banks, broker-dealers, and payment groups to offer digital asset trading and custody, crypto-backed rewards and round-ups programs as well as yield through staking and DeFi and NFTs.

Our thesis is very simple: every financial services firm will offer digital assets within the next 2 years and will do so through platforms such as Zero Hash. Zero Hash is defining the new FinTech vertical of digital-assets-as-a-service.

Clients include MoneyLion, Wirex, Deserve, MoonPay, Tastytrade. Backed by Point72 Ventures, NYCA, Bain Capital, Tastytrade.

The Zero Hash Culture

All Zero Hash employees are guided by the following characteristics and core principles:

• Independence/Ownership - An ability to work autonomously. Join Zero Hash, pitch ideas, and shape the work you do.
• Passion - We are innovating quickly and challenging the status quo. We want you to think big, be creative and ​make a difference every day.
• Collaborative - A good attitude and respect for others. We’re teammates, not co-workers. Everything we do is a shared success and equally a shared failure - we talk in terms of “we” not “me”.
• Initiative - An ability and passion for learning and asking questions. We will champion you, challenge you and push you to achieve your best - and we expect you to do the same.
• Empathy - An ability to listen, respect, and understand your co-workers, customers, and everyone you interact with no matter how different they are to you.
• Adaptability - An ability to respond quickly. We are in a fast-paced industry and so we expect you to be creative when solving a new problem and comfortable under pressure.
• Transparency - We believe that transparency is critical to empowering everyone to make the best decisions, both the company to its people and vice versa.
• Integrity - Integrity creates trust. As both an organization collectively and as individuals, it is our most valuable asset.

Job Description

Who We Are

mx51 is a specialist white-label bank-focused payment technology provider, emerging out of leading payment technology provider Assembly Payments. As the first Australian fintech to develop a bank-grade, modern, Payment as a Service platform, mx51’s deep knowledge of merchant acquiring and scalable payments technology helps banks thrive in a disruptive world. At mx51, we are merchant experience obsessed and we're embarking on a global mission to bring innovative, reliable, merchant focused payment solutions to our customers.

Having established a successful partnership with Westpac in Australia, mx51’s unique capabilities and proven bank-grade technology is well-positioned to partner with overseas banks. In addition, mx51 was recently accepted into Mastercard’s Start Path program, an accelerator program for late-stage startups with a readiness to scale. As part of the program, mx51 will have a gateway to operational support, technology expertise, commercial engagement with Mastercard’s global ecosystem and opportunities to expand globally.

About the Role

• Develop, design and review features in high-throughput fault-tolerant microservices for an IoT-style real-time monitoring system used by thousands of payment terminals
• Collaborate with your fellow highly-skilled engineers and testers in a fast-paced agile environment
• Review your colleagues’ code and have yours reviewed by them, to keep the quality of our code as high as possible
• Work closely with DevOps engineers to deploy your code in a scalable way using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)
• Work with the delivery and product team to deliver customer value at every iteration

We’re looking for the following experience

• Proven experience developing high-traffic web applications and/or distributed services
• Experience using Go in a commercial or open source project
• Solid background in other programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Python or Ruby
• Knowing your way around database integration (RDBMS and NoSQL, Postgres preferred)
• Experience with writing useful tests for your code
• Must have experience developing REST or gRPC APIs; ideally, those consumed by third parties
• Must be experienced in deploying applications to AWS, GCP, Azure or similar
• Tertiary education in computer science (or related) highly regarded

It would be nice if you had the following

• General payment industry experience

What we offer

• A company culture with an innovative mindset, where your ideas have the potential to create change
• A fun and flexible work environment
• A competitive salary package
• Employee Share Option Plan (subject to invitation)
• Employee referral bonuses
• The ability to Salary Sacrifice eligible purchases
• Paid parental leave for new parents to help you transition

You will be joining our awesome Sydney-based team who are committed to mx51’s values of customer focus, adaptability, curiosity, ownership, trust and respect.

mx51 is an equal opportunity employer that’s committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for this role without bias to race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability or age.

Due to Covid-19, we have embraced remote working, which will continue. However, our staff do have opt-in choices to attend our Sydney office during the week.

Must have permanent working rights in Australia (Australian citizen, NZ citizen or Australian Permanent Resident)

Application Steps

1. Submit your resume (and cover letter if you like)
2. If you have source code of a project that you have written, which showcases your skills, and you have permission to share, please include a link to this in your submission. Should you proceed to the next stage, we will use this as a reference during a technical interview. (All rights to submitted code will remain with the original author according to any license included or author request). If you dont have something you can share, no problem, we have a small exercise that you can work on to demonstrate your skills.
3. We will review your application against others we receive and get back to you with next steps.