Senior Software Engineer - Golang

About us

Admiral Money is the dynamic lending arm of Admiral Group, offering personal loans, motor finance, and homeowner loans since 2017. We're building something special for our customers and are looking for curious, driven individuals ready to learn, take on challenges, and make an impact.

We're proud to be a certified Great Place to Work for over 25 years, with recognition for Women and Wellbeing. Our inclusive culture empowers everyone to Be You.

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The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer at Admiral Money, you'll play a key role in driving innovation across our technical product teams. You'll contribute to a wide range of development initiatives, champion engineering excellence, and help shape the future of our products through deep technical insight and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Write clean, idiomatic, and maintainable Golang code that aligns with business requirements
• Ensure all work is covered by suitable unit tests
• Contribute proactively to technical excellence through peer reviews and best practice development
• Maintain appropriate levels of documentation
• Contribute effectively to team activities including Scrum events
• Demonstrate commitment to continual improvement of the software, the team, the discipline, and the business
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Architects, and other stakeholders
• Support the growth of the discipline through coaching and mentoring

Essential Skills / Experience

• Significant professional experience with Golang, plus HTML and CSS
• Experience with both React and Express.js (or similar frameworks)
• Experience using AWS (or other cloud platform providers)
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps tooling and processes
• Ability to work effectively as a member of a Scrum/Agile team
• Knowledge and awareness of accessibility standards and best practices
• Practical understanding of Secure Software Development practices
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Knowledge of other programming languages (particularly TypeScript or Python)
• Experience using CSS pre processors (e.g., Sass), Next.js, and Nx
• Experience working with microservices and event driven architectures
• Database engineering experience (particularly PostgreSQL and DynamoDB)
• Experience with Terraform/IaC
• Kubernetes and Docker experience

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We're committed to fostering a people first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.

Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We're proud of our people first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We're fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work life balance; you can view some of our other key benefits.