Senior Software Engineer (Golang)
At Trustly, we aren’t just processing payments; we are building the world’s most resilient financial network. The Transfer & Funds team is the engine room of this mission. We are the architects and guardians of Trustly’s financial integrity, responsible for the core systems that ensure instant, reliable settlements for millions of users worldwide.
We are currently undertaking a massive evolution of our infrastructure: transitioning our core financial logic from a high-volume Postgres monolith into a clean, Go-based distributed architecture. We are looking for a Senior Engineer who thrives on technical complexity and wants to leave a legacy by building our next-generation transactional systems.
This is a "change the engines while the plane is flying" opportunity. You will work on the most critical systems at Trustly, solving the industry's hardest problems in transactional consistency and scale. If you enjoy deep technical puzzles and want to own the bedrock of a global fintech leader, we want to hear from you.
Apply now and help us architect the future of global payments.
- Play a lead role in moving mission-critical logic out of a centralized Postgres monolith and into a high-velocity, domain-driven environment.
- Architect and maintain the systems responsible for our Transfer System and Transactional Ledger , ensuring absolute data integrity and high availability.
- Design services that handle high-concurrency and global scale, ensuring that every transaction is atomic, consistent, and resilient to failure.
- Contribute to the long-term technical vision of how Trustly handles money movement, balancing the need for rapid feature delivery with the rigor of financial accounting.
- You have 5+ years of experience building robust, production-grade backend systems in Golang .
You write idiomatic code and have a deep understanding of Go’s concurrency model and performance characteristics.
- You understand the nuances of distributed systems. You know how to build application-level safety nets, handle partial failures, and ensure "exactly-once" processing across service boundaries.
- You have experience in SQL and relational databases, like PostgreSQL . You understand transaction isolation, locking strategies, and how to refactor schemas under heavy production load.
- You’ve successfully moved logic out of legacy environments into modern architectures. You know how to bridge the old and the new without disrupting live operations.
- You design for failure. You value observability and have experience running mission-critical services in AWS/Kubernetes environments.
- 20 to 30 days of holiday to support a healthy work-life balance
- Monthly team outing allowance to enjoy social events with your colleagues
- Parental leave top-up additional support for new parents
- Daily breakfast and on-site perks to make your workday smoother
- Well being support our health allowance covers gym memberships, massages, and much more to help you feel your best
PLUS additional benefits designed to enhance your work-life experience!
Trustly is a Swedish fintech company specialising in account-to-account (open banking) payments, letting consumers pay directly from their bank accounts without cards. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Stockholm, it connects merchants - including many online gambling operators - to thousands of banks across Europe and North America. The company processes billions of euros in payments annually and is a widely used deposit and withdrawal method in the iGaming industry. Trustly employs more than 1,000 people across offices in Europe and the Americas.
