Remote Go Backend Engineer — Build Scalable Services & Impact

Madfish; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing E-commerce facilitation startup in the United Kingdom seeks a Middle Go Developer to join their key team. The position offers responsibilities such as developing backend solutions, writing clean and tested code, and collaborating with various teams in a remote work environment. Ideal candidates should have over 4 years of Go development experience and possess strong analytical and communication skills. This role also offers career growth and involvement in impactful product development.

Benefits

Work on an innovative product with market-changing potential

Full-time position

Remote working format

Regular salary review

Ability to influence product quality and direction

Career growth within the company

Overtime compensation

8-hour workday

Qualifications

• Responsibility and independence in task execution from planning to result.
• Analytical thinking and initiative in problem-solving.
• Willingness to learn new things and share knowledge with the team.
• Ability to switch quickly between tasks and technologies in changing conditions.
• Proactivity in suggesting optimizations or improvements.
• Openness to feedback and desire for technical and professional growth.
• Mature communication skills and ability to discuss complex topics.

Responsibilities

• Developing, optimizing, and maintaining backend solutions.
• Writing clean, scalable, and tested code.
• Analyzing and optimizing application performance.
• Integrating with third-party APIs and services.
• Participating in code reviews, sprint planning, and technical discussions.
• Collaborating with the development team, QA, and DevOps.
• Participating in architecture and technical solution design.

Skills

4+ years of commercial Go development (goroutines, channels, stdlib)

Experience in creating scalable, high-load, fault-tolerant services

Knowledge of REST and gRPC

Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis

Experience with RabbitMQ (or other message brokers)

Understanding of building REST APIs

Understanding of nginx operations

Practical experience with Git and CI/CD

Knowledge of Git, experience in team collaboration with Git Flow

Experience writing unit and integration tests

Job description

A growing E-commerce facilitation startup in the United Kingdom seeks a Middle Go Developer to join their key team. The position offers responsibilities such as developing backend solutions, writing clean and tested code, and collaborating with various teams in a remote work environment. Ideal candidates should have over 4 years of Go development experience and possess strong analytical and communication skills. This role also offers career growth and involvement in impactful product development.