Job Description

ZYMIX is an innovative super-app revolutionizing social interaction and services for the UK's young urbanites aged 18-30, integrating instant messaging, contextual social networking, lightweight mini-programs, and seamless payments. With a "social-as-a-service" strategy, we aim to become the go-to platform for Gen Z consumers, filling market gaps in anonymous socializing, nearby interactions, and integrated local lifestyle services. Join us as we pilot in key universities and life scenes, building a dynamic ecosystem that empowers users and businesses alike.

Key Responsibilities?

? Design, build, and operate reliable, scalable backend systems for production products.

? Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality, user-focused features.

? Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, while actively improving existing systems through refactoring and optimisation.

? Participate in technical design discussions, code reviews, and architectural decision-making.

? Ensure systems meet high standards for security, availability, and correctness, particularly within high-trust, regulated environments.

? Take part in incident response, debugging, and operational improvements to ensure smooth system performance.

? Contribute to a healthy engineering culture through mentoring, thorough code reviews, and constructive feedback to raise the overall engineering bar.

Candidate Requirements

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? You have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong background in building backend systems for production.

? You have strong proficiency in Golang.

? You have experience working in fintech, payments, or regulated financial services, understanding the critical nature of reliability, security, and correctness.

? You have hands-on experience designing and building large-scale, complex distributed systems.

? You are experienced with PostgreSQL, Redis, or similar databases, with strong skills in schema design, optimisation, and performance tuning.

? Familiarity with AWS or other major cloud service providers.

Nice to Have?

? Experience with native mobile development (Swift, Kotlin), or a willingness to learn and contribute to mobile codebases over time.

? Experience with containerisation and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.

? Experience with mainstream RPC frameworks such as gRPC.

? Ability to effectively leverage AI tools to improve developer productivity and code quality.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 80,000.00-90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension Life insurance Private medical insurance Referral programme Sick pay
Work Location: In person