Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

Your Next Hire; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company based in the UK is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer proficient in Go to own backend services and make impactful architectural decisions. You'll work on high-throughput cloud-native systems, focusing on performance and reliability, in a collaborative, remote-first environment. Candidates with experience in distributed systems and cloud technologies will thrive in this role where technical decisions are owned by the engineering team.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience building production systems in Go is essential.
• Experience in owning backend services end to end is required.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Own backend services from design through to production.
• Make architectural decisions around scalability and performance.
• Work with product teams to influence technical direction.

Skills

Strong commercial experience building production systems in Go

Experience owning backend services

Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals

Comfortable working in cloud environments

Pragmatic mindset with a bias toward simplicity and reliability

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS or GCP

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

Job Title

Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

Package

£80,000 – £100,000 + benefits

Depending on experience

Location

UK based

Remote first with optional office time

Overview

We’re building a high-throughput, cloud-native platform where backend engineering actually matters. This role is about owning core services written in Go that sit at the heart of the product. You’ll be trusted with real responsibility, real scale, and real technical decisions.

If you enjoy designing systems, not just tickets, you’ll feel at home here.

Company Overview

We’re a product-led tech company solving complex problems with simple, well-designed systems. The focus is on performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability. Engineers here are expected to think, challenge, and improve how things are built, not just ship and forget.

The Role

System Ownership

• Owning backend services end to end from design through to production
• Making architectural decisions around scalability, performance, and resilience
• Taking responsibility for the health of the services you build

Backend Engineering

• Building and evolving Go microservices in a cloud environment
• Designing clean APIs and data contracts
• Working with distributed systems and async workflows

Reliability & Scale

• Improving observability, logging, and monitoring
• Designing for failure and handling real world edge cases
• Optimising services that operate under load

Collaboration

• Working closely with product and other engineers
• Influencing technical direction and best practice
• Mentoring others through code and technical discussion

Tech Environment

• Go
• Microservices architecture
• AWS or GCP
• Docker and Kubernetes
• PostgreSQL and Redis
• CI / CD pipelines and infrastructure as code

Key Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience building production systems in Go
• Experience owning backend services, not just contributing tickets
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals
• Comfortable working in cloud environments
• Pragmatic mindset with a bias toward simplicity and reliability

Nice to Have

• Experience scaling systems used by real customers
• Background in fintech, payments, gaming, or data heavy platforms
• Experience shaping architecture rather than inheriting it

Why This Is Interesting

• Engineers here have real ownership and influence
• You’ll work on systems that actually run at scale
• No micromanagement, no ticket factories
• Technical decisions are made by the people building the software

Next Steps

If you’re a Go engineer who cares about system quality, ownership, and doing things properly, let’s talk.

Drop me a message or apply directly.