TL;DR

Senior Go Developer (Backend): Building mission-critical, data-driven services that power core parts of the platform with an accent on system design and implementation to optimisation and release. Focus on improving infrastructure, shipping new features, or quietly refactoring something that needs it.

Location: London, UK

Salary: Negotiable

Company

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What you will do

Play a key role in building data-driven services that power core parts of the platform.
Take ownership across the full development lifecycle, from system design and implementation to optimisation and release.
Collaborate closely with product and infrastructure teams to ship well-architected, scalable microservices.
Improve infrastructure and ship new features.

Requirements

Significant professional experience in software development, with a strong focus on backend systems
Proficiency in Go / Golang and proven expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker
Experience with end-to-end software engineering, including system design and architecture
Hands-on experience working on complex, data-intensive applications
A product-focused mindset and familiarity with working in technology-driven organisations or start-ups

Nice to have

Experience with Kafka, Cassandra, gRPC, and microservices architecture will also be beneficial, as well as experience contributing to open-source projects

Culture & Benefits

Open, fast-moving environment where ideas get tested quickly and good engineering practices are taken seriously.
Contractors are treated as part of the team, contributing to technical decisions, stand-ups, and everything in between.
Equal opportunities employer.