Scale Backend Engineer (Golang) – Equity & Bonus

Corevia Search; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 119,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 10%

Equity

Job summary

Corevia Search is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in London who will design and build scalable backend services and distributed systems. You will own complex projects from design to production and tackle high-throughput, low-latency challenges as the platform scales.

The role requires 5–8 years of professional software experience with strong backend skills, preferably in Golang; Java or Python are acceptable alternatives. Equity and a bonus are included as part of the compensation.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong backend development experience, ideally with Golang. (Java or Python considered)
• Proven experience building and operating high-throughput, low-latency systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, APIs and databases.
• Experience designing systems for scale and making pragmatic architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design and build highly scalable backend services and distributed systems.
• Own complex technical projects from initial design through to production.
• Solve challenging problems around high throughput, low latency, reliability and scalability.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and help establish strong engineering practices.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver impactful features.

Skills

Backend development

Golang

Distributed systems

APIs

Job description

Corevia Search is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in London who will design and build scalable backend services and distributed systems. You will own complex projects from design to production and tackle high-throughput, low-latency challenges as the platform scales.

The role requires 5–8 years of professional software experience with strong backend skills, preferably in Golang; Java or Python are acceptable alternatives. Equity and a bonus are included as part of the compensation.