Senior Backend Engineer, API & Exports (Golang)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Generous paid time off

Comprehensive health insurance

Family leave program

Inclusive global team

Job summary

Meltwater is seeking a passionate and experienced software engineer to join the API & Exports team in London. You will help enable programmatic data access, build scalable APIs, and optimize export functionalities at scale.

You will work on MCP, OAuth, permissions, and governance, collaborating with product managers and engineers to design resilient systems while maintaining high observability and reliability across services.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience with a strong backend focus.
• Proficiency in Golang.
• Experience designing and developing resilient REST APIs and cloud-native applications (AWS).
• Good understanding of microservice architecture and backend design principles.
• Solid knowledge of Postgres, Redis, and ideally DynamoDB.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, development, and optimization of API, export and MCP features.
• Collaborate closely with product managers and senior engineers to define functionality, while architecting systems that handle high-throughput data pipelines.
• Participate in building robust export pipelines, streaming architectures, webhook integrations and MCP servers.
• Maintain high observability and reliability standards using tools like Coralogix, CloudWatch, and Grafana.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response for owned services.

Skills

Golang

Backend development

API design

Cloud AWS

Observability

AI-assisted development

Tools

Postgres

Redis

DynamoDB

OpenSearch

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

S3

Lambda

Job description

Meltwater is seeking a passionate and experienced software engineer to join the API & Exports team in London. You will help enable programmatic data access, build scalable APIs, and optimize export functionalities at scale.

You will work on MCP, OAuth, permissions, and governance, collaborating with product managers and engineers to design resilient systems while maintaining high observability and reliability across services.