Go Backend Engineer - Hybrid, Cloud & Microservices

Eclipse IT Recruitment; Ringway; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Private healthcare

Bonus and share options

Job summary

Eclipse IT Recruitment is looking for a Go backend developer to design, build and maintain high-scale services in a microservices setup. The role involves contributing to APIs, cloud-native infrastructure and production-grade code in a hybrid Manchester environment.

You will work with Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform,-plus CI/CD workflows, across AWS or GCP, focusing on performance, reliability and security of live systems.

Qualifications

• Production Go experience writing backend services in a microservices architecture.
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs and scalable systems.
• Hands-on Docker and Kubernetes experience; CI/CD familiarity.
• Experience with AWS or GCP and infrastructure as code (Terraform).

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain backend services and APIs in Go.
• Work within a microservices architecture running on Kubernetes in the cloud.
• Write clean, well-tested code and take an active part in code reviews.
• Improve the performance, reliability and security of live services.
• Support live services using modern monitoring and observability tools.
• Work closely with product and platform colleagues to ship features.

Skills

Go

REST APIs

Microservices

Code reviews

Team collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Job description

Eclipse IT Recruitment is looking for a Go backend developer to design, build and maintain high-scale services in a microservices setup. The role involves contributing to APIs, cloud-native infrastructure and production-grade code in a hybrid Manchester environment.

You will work with Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform,-plus CI/CD workflows, across AWS or GCP, focusing on performance, reliability and security of live systems.