Senior Software Engineer (Go)

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid workplace. Remote work is also mentioned as an option within the company's flexible working approach.

Company

hirify.global Technologies is a dual-use technology company building secure platforms and critical tools for government and commercial workflows.

What you will do

• Build and own backend services, APIs, microservices, and platform components in Go.
• Design event-driven, scalable, observable, and resilient systems for the ACRA security-focused Kubernetes platform.
• Own services end to end, from system design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, debugging, and production operations.
• Build and improve Docker images, Kubernetes workloads, CI/CD pipelines, and Argo/GitOps delivery workflows.
• Develop platform capabilities including workload isolation, policy enforcement, auditability, identity-aware communication, and secure application execution.
• Collaborate with product, leadership, and engineering to turn ambiguous requirements into reliable technical solutions and raise engineering standards.

Requirements

• Senior backend engineering experience, ideally with hands-on Go experience.
• Experience building and operating production APIs, backend services, microservices, or distributed systems.
• Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
• Familiarity with GitOps, Argo, container registries, secrets management, secure configuration, and deployment automation.
• Strong system design fundamentals covering reliability, scalability, observability, failure handling, and security boundaries.
• Ownership-oriented, product-minded approach with the ability to work through ambiguity and debug issues across applications, services, and infrastructure.

Nice to have

• Experience in secure or regulated environments such as defence, government, fintech, healthcare, critical infrastructure, or sovereign cloud.
• Knowledge of zero-trust architecture, identity-aware systems, policy enforcement, workload isolation, service mesh, or network policy.
• Experience with observability, incident response, supply-chain security, image signing, vulnerability scanning, SBOMs, or admission control.
• Familiarity with Vault, SOPS, Sealed Secrets, External Secrets, or cloud-native secret managers.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work setup with flexibility to work remotely.
• Equity participation and competitive compensation.
• Employer pension contributions and private health insurance.
• Company retreats and meetups designed to support collaboration and work-life balance.
• Inclusive, compassionate, and flexible working culture with broad ownership.