Golang Developer - Burgess Hill

Randstad Digital; Burgess Hill; On-site; GBP 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Digital in Burgess Hill seeks a Golang Software Engineer to design backend features within the Account domain and contribute to the Loyalty and Benefits platform. The role is permanent and full-time, offering a hybrid schedule with three days on-site.

The ideal candidate has hands-on Golang development experience, strong knowledge of microservices and REST, and a background in Scrum, TDD, and CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven backend development experience using a type-safe language with Golang strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of backend microservices, RESTful communication, and messaging systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Experience in Scrum, TDD across testing tiers, and CI/CD pipelines with Git/Jenkins is expected.
• Familiarity with Agile practices including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, TDD/BDD.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features within the Account domain.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to share platform knowledge and best practices.
• Contribute to the global Loyalty and Benefits platform as a Golang Software Engineer.

Skills

Golang

REST APIs

Kafka

RabbitMQ

TDD

CI/CD

Git

Jenkins

Docker

gRPC

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Postgres

Docker

GraphQL

Git

JIRA

Rally

SVN

Job description

Salary: £90,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven hands-on experience developing backend systems using at least one type-safe language, with Golang strongly preferred.
• Professional background in software development with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Solid familiarity with backend microservices architectures, RESTful communication, and asynchronous messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Experience operating within Scrum frameworks to deliver business capabilities and end-to-end customer journeys.
• Strong foundation in Test-Driven Development (TDD) across unit, component, functional, integration, and regression testing tiers.
• Practical experience with CI/CD/CT pipelines, automated testing, version control (Git, SVN), and project tracking tools such as Jenkins, JIRA, and Rally.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies and practices including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, TDD, BDD, and Waterfall.
• Desirable technical exposure to Golang, Postgres, Kafka, gRPC, Docker, GraphQL, and Git.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement features within the Account domain.
• Collaborate with engineering teams across the organization to exchange best practices and platform knowledge.
• Contribute to the global Loyalty and Benefits platform as a Golang Software Engineer.

Technologies:

• Backend
• CI/CD
• Docker
• Git
• Golang
• GraphQL
• JIRA
• Jenkins
• Kafka
• Kanban
• RabbitMQ
• SVN
• TDD
• gRPC
• microservices

More:

We are recruiting an enthusiastic and diligent Golang Software Engineer to join our global Loyalty and Benefits platform in Burgess Hill on a permanent, full-time basis. This is a hybrid role with three days per week on-site. We are a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT and Engineering industries, and we note that due to a high level of applications, we can only respond to applicants whose skills and qualifications are suitable for this position.

last updated 38 week of 2026