Go Backend Engineer — Hybrid (Scale Microservices)

Pertemps London; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Benefits

Job summary

Pertemps London is seeking a Back End Engineer focused on GoLang to join a hybrid team in Central London. You will design, build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs supporting high-volume digital products used by millions.

You'll work closely with product and engineering teams, embrace modern software engineering practices, and contribute to system reliability, architecture decisions and automated testing. This role offers hybrid work with regular in-office days.

Qualifications

• Commercial GoLang development experience.
• Experience building RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases.
• Knowledge of gRPC and inter-service communication.
• Experience with Git and modern version control practices.
• Experience with containerisation and deployment tools.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a collaborative engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain scalable backend applications using GoLang.
• Build and enhance RESTful APIs and microservices that support core platform functionality.
• Contribute to system architecture and technical design decisions.
• Optimise application performance, reliability and scalability.
• Troubleshoot, debug and resolve complex technical issues.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code following engineering best practices.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Develop and maintain automated testing solutions to ensure platform stability.
• Support deployment, monitoring and ongoing performance improvements across backend systems.

Skills

Go

REST APIs

Microservices

SQL/NoSQL

gRPC

Git

Containerization

Problem solving

Teamwork

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Pertemps London is seeking a Back End Engineer focused on GoLang to join a hybrid team in Central London. You will design, build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs supporting high-volume digital products used by millions.

You'll work closely with product and engineering teams, embrace modern software engineering practices, and contribute to system reliability, architecture decisions and automated testing. This role offers hybrid work with regular in-office days.