GoLang Backend Architect: Microservices & Scalable APIs

Southwick-Hill Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Southwick-Hill Recruitment seeks a skilled backend engineer in Greater London to partner with Product and Engineering to implement scalable Go services and maintain the codebase.

You will contribute to a microservice architecture, write well-documented APIs for cross-functional teams, and help ensure a high cadence of delivery in an agile environment while maintaining quality and reliability.

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of Golang and modern Go tooling.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and microservices architectures.
• Knowledge of NoSQL database technologies.
• Proven ability to build large concurrent applications.
• Experience in production-grade, large-scale environments.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to deliver against our product roadmap.
• Deliver clean, scalable, and highly maintainable code.
• Manage and maintain the codebase ensuring it runs as expected.
• Create and maintain microservices.
• Write well-documented APIs for cross-functional teams to consume.
• Contribute to architectural decisions.
• Ensure a high rate of delivery in an agile environment with high quality.
• Support developers of all levels and foster collaboration.

Skills

Golang

CI/CD

Microservices

NoSQL databases

Concurrent apps

Large-scale prod envs

Job description

Southwick-Hill Recruitment seeks a skilled backend engineer in Greater London to partner with Product and Engineering to implement scalable Go services and maintain the codebase.

You will contribute to a microservice architecture, write well-documented APIs for cross-functional teams, and help ensure a high cadence of delivery in an agile environment while maintaining quality and reliability.