Go Backend Engineer - Cybercrime Detection Platform

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days annual leave

Private health cover

Hybrid and flexible working

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Backend Engineer to join our Specialised Disruption team in the UK. Based in London, Manchester, or Bath, you’ll help design and build backend features for our phone scam disruption product, primarily in Go, with some legacy Perl work and a TypeScript UI.

You’ll own production services, focusing on reliability, performance, and security, while collaborating across teams.

Qualifications

• Experience developing and maintaining production backend systems, ideally in Go or a similar backend language.
• Experience with SQL databases (MySQL or MariaDB), including schema design and complex queries.
• Experience with version control systems (Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to convey technical concepts clearly.
• Open to using AI tooling in software development.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building features and improvements to backend services with performance, reliability, and security in mind.
• Maintaining and modernising legacy systems (including Perl) while ensuring stability and operability.
• Testing and documenting work to a high standard with attention to detail.
• Owning production systems and incident prevention, responding quickly to issues.
• Collaborating with other engineering teams to ensure services integrate smoothly.
• Working with cross-functional stakeholders to design and implement solutions for business needs.

Skills

Go backend

SQL databases

Git

CI/CD

System reliability

Communication

TypeScript

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Backend Engineer to join our Specialised Disruption team in the UK. Based in London, Manchester, or Bath, you’ll help design and build backend features for our phone scam disruption product, primarily in Go, with some legacy Perl work and a TypeScript UI.

You’ll own production services, focusing on reliability, performance, and security, while collaborating across teams.