Golang Engineer

Zohorecruit; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Zohorecruit in London is seeking a backend engineer to design, build and operate Golang microservices in a fintech environment. You will contribute to high-throughput transaction processing and scalable platforms, working with distributed systems and modern messaging stacks.

You should be comfortable with Docker and Kubernetes, and have experience with both relational and NoSQL databases. Proficiency in PHP is a bonus for this role.

Qualifications

• Strong backend experience with Go/Golang in production.
• Experience designing and operating microservices architectures.
• Solid understanding of concurrent, distributed systems and high-throughput processing.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Experience with relational and NoSQL datastores (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, BigQuery).
• Hands-on with Docker and Kubernetes.

Skills

Go/Golang

Microservices

Distributed systems

Event-driven

SQL/NoSQL

Docker/Kubernetes

PHP (bonus)

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

BigQuery

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

London, United Kingdom | Posted on 04/13/2026

• Strong commercial experience building backend services in Golang (PHP experience is a bonus)
• Proven experience designing and operating microservices architectures, ideally in production fintech or payments environments
• Solid understanding of concurrent, distributed systems and high throughput transaction processing
• Experience with event driven architectures and messaging systems (e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Strong experience working with relational and NoSQL datastores (e.g. PostgreSQL, MongoDB, BigQuery)
• Hands on experience deploying and running services in containerised environments using Docker and Kubernetes