Go Backend Engineer — Kubernetes Microservices, Hybrid UK

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

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Job summary

Eclipse IT Recruitment is recruiting a Go backend developer for a London-based, hybrid role. You will design and build backend services and APIs in Go, working within a microservices architecture on Kubernetes in the cloud.

The team focuses on reliable, scalable systems and actively participates in code reviews. The role requires production Go experience, strong REST/microservices knowledge, and hands-on Docker/Kubernetes, plus cloud exposure on AWS or GCP.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience writing Go in production.
• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Cloud experience on AWS or GCP; Azure welcome.

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 participate in code reviews.
• Improve performance, reliability and security of live services.
• Support live services with modern monitoring and observability tools.
• Collaborate with product and platform teams to ship features.

Skills

Go programming

REST APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Communication

Teamwork

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Job description

Eclipse IT Recruitment is recruiting a Go backend developer for a London-based, hybrid role. You will design and build backend services and APIs in Go, working within a microservices architecture on Kubernetes in the cloud.

The team focuses on reliable, scalable systems and actively participates in code reviews. The role requires production Go experience, strong REST/microservices knowledge, and hands-on Docker/Kubernetes, plus cloud exposure on AWS or GCP.