Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer role sits at the intersection of SaaS platform engineering and fintech-grade payments infrastructure. Thunes operates a global network that moves money in real time across many countries, which makes reliability, observability, and API design central rather than peripheral concerns. For SaaS professionals, that kind of product surface area is a strong indicator of systems that must behave predictably under constant demand and partner integrations.
From a career standpoint, the work aligns with the skills that compound across modern SaaS companies: building and evolving backend services, shaping event-driven systems, and treating CI/CD, monitoring, and performance as part of the product. Experience delivering secure, testable services that support SLAs and uptime targets translates well to roles in platform teams, core product engineering, and technical leadership across subscription and usage-based SaaS models.
This position is best suited to an engineer who prefers ownership from design through production, values disciplined engineering practices such as code review and iterative delivery, and enjoys collaborating across stakeholders. It will appeal to someone who wants depth in distributed services and production operations, while still contributing directly to customer-facing capabilities exposed through APIs.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About Thunes
Thunes is the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world. Thunes’ proprietary Direct Global Network allows Members to make payments in real-time in over 130 countries and more than 80 currencies.
Thunes’ network connects directly to over 7 billion mobile wallets and bank accounts worldwide, as well as 15 billion cards via more than 320 different payment methods, such as GCash, M-Pesa, Airtel, MTN, Orange, JazzCash, Easypaisa, AliPay, WeChat Pay and many more.
Thunes’ Direct Global Network differentiates itself through its worldwide reach, in-house SmartX Treasury System and Fortress Compliance Platform, ensuring Members of the network receive unrivaled speed, control, visibility, protection and cost efficiencies when making real-time payments, globally.
Members of Thunes’ Direct Global Network include gig economy giants like Uber and Deliveroo, super-apps like Grab and WeChat, MTOs, fintechs, PSPs and banks.
Headquartered in Singapore, Thunes has offices in 14 locations, including Abidjan, Barcelona, Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, London, Manila, Nairobi, Paris, Riyadh, San Francisco and Shanghai.
For more information, visit: https://www.thunes.com/
Context of the role
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Golang) who is passionate about the FinTech industry, wants to work in a disruptive, fast-growing and exciting environment. As part of the Engineering team, based in Europe, this role will bring you great opportunities to work on various projects, technologies, with a diverse range of teams.
The Engineering team is responsible for developing our core business products and getting them to production in the most efficient and fastest way possible. We architect solutions, tools and platforms to solve business needs and tools around provisioning, configuration, CICD, monitoring, SLA, performance and uptime. Our team is passionate about the details and we work very closely with a wide range of stakeholders. Processing millions of transactions per month and interconnecting hundreds of partners from all around the world, Thunes is continuously growing its coverage and footprint in the industry.
Responsibilities
We’re looking for a highly driven, self-motivated, technically excellent engineer who is truly excited about having a meaningful impact within the company and payments industry. In this role, you will combine a startup mindset with the scale of an industry leader. Working on our core platform and services you will help us to create the future of the company, by ensuring the scalability and performance of the platform, delivering new functionalities, automating and improving development processes.
- Work on highly available services, exposed mainly by APIs
- Participate in the design, implementation and shipping of new products to internal and external stakeholders
- Deliver high quality, testable, secure, readable, scalable and documented software
- Understand, apply and champion the principles of the agile methodology (code reviews, sprint planning, pair programming, daily stand-ups, etc..)
- Assist in the evaluation of new technologies and initiatives
What we are looking for
- Preferably a degree in Information Technology, Engineering Computer Science or related fields
- Software engineers that are motivated, curious and have an appetite for learning
- Proficient in Golang
- Experience with Event-Driven Architecture and message brokers (e.g., AWS SNS/SQS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Experience with relational databases (e.g, PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- Passionate about Agile Methodology and practices (TDD, CI, CD, etc..)
- Experience designing and developing web and API solutions
- Interest in the Fintech Industry and market innovations
Benefits
- Great compensation package, including performance & company bonus
- Private Health insurance for you and your family
- Life Insurance
- Work life balance (flexibility and hybrid working policy)
- Great offices close to Sagrada Familia
- Learning & Development budget
- Our team is global, you will work with 40+ different nationalities spread across 5 continents
- 25 days of holidays + 2 Thunes Out Days + 2 Community days
We can offer you an environment where we have a culture of learning and feedback. You will be challenged to own your code - write, test, deploy it, multiple times per day. Our technology is used 24/7 and around the world, it needs to be reliable, secure and massively scalable. You will also need to interface with technology teams in different countries. Our environment and packages match the ambition of the company - building world class engineering teams.
Sound like you? Apply now!
