Senior Software Engineer at DailyPay in Belfast
- Company: DailyPay
- Location: Belfast
- Posted: Sep 18, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Salary: £57K – £74K
- Experience: 4+ years
Overview
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work alongside a supportive, high-impact team of skilled developers to improve how our teams deploy and access services, how data moves across our platform, and how we automate operations to enable future scale. Our teams specialize in developing robust and sc…
Job description
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work alongside a supportive, high-impact team of skilled developers to improve how our teams deploy and access services, how data moves across our platform, and how we automate operations to enable future scale. Our teams specialize in developing robust and scalable Go microservices, leveraging a modern tech stack that includes AWS, Docker, Postgres, and Kafka. We are looking for engineers passionate about building high-quality solutions who thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
- Build Scalable Services: Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services and APIs that support our evolving platform.
- Drive Architectural Evolution: Contribute directly to the transition to microservices by designing clean APIs and event-driven architectures.
- Optimize Data Performance: Enhance database performance and data structures to support high-traffic, real-time applications and seamless data movement.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with various teams to ensure technical solutions are perfectly aligned with business requirements and user needs.
- Champion Engineering Excellence: Mentor fellow engineers and perform thorough code reviews to drive best practices in Golang.
- Automate for Scale: Identify opportunities to automate operations, making it easier for other teams to deploy and access their services efficiently.
- Solve High-Traffic Challenges: Apply pragmatic engineering to handle the complexities of moving data across a distributed platform at scale.
Requirements
- Strong Technical Foundation: 4+ years of hands-on software development experience, including at least 2 years working with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C#, etc.).
- Microservices Expertise: Demonstrated experience designing and developing microservices within cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Code Quality: A proven ability to write maintainable, high-quality, and robust code with a pragmatic approach to problem-solving.
- Data & Messaging Proficiency: Experience working with SQL databases and a solid knowledge of message queues (Kafka, SQS) and asynchronous processing patterns.
- Effective Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to describe technical designs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Infrastructure & Methodology: Familiarity with cloud-based infrastructure, basic networking, and Agile/Kanban methodologies.
Skills
Required
- Go
- Java
- C#
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- SQL
- Kafka
- SQS
- Microservices
- Cloud-based infrastructure
- Basic networking
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Opportunity for equity ownership
- Private health insurance option
- Employee Resource Groups
- Fun company outings and events
- Generous PTO Allowance
- 5% Pension contribution
About DailyPay
DailyPay is the leader in On-Demand Pay, helping employers modernize how people get their pay. DailyPay serves more than 1,900 employers and over 6 million employees, including many of the world's most recognized brands. By providing real-time access to earned pay and financial wellness tools, DailyPay helps employees manage their finances and helps employers attract and retain talent. DailyPay is helping define the future of pay, where money moves at the speed of work.. Learn more at DailyPay's Press Center.