Senior Backend Engineer - Go & Cloud APIs (Remote 3x/Week)

PVH (Tommy Hilfiger/Calvin Klein); Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

WFH 3 days per week

32 days of holiday

Your choice of computer hardware

Annual training and conference budget

Regular team days out

Job summary

Gener8 is seeking an experienced backend engineer to power our data-driven platform. You will build, optimize and scale APIs using Go, PostgreSQL and Redis, running on Kubernetes in GCP. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ship features, tests, and reliable infrastructure.

We value strong English communication, cloud-native architecture, and experience with RESTful APIs, Swagger/OpenAPI and event-driven systems. WFH 3 days, 32 days holiday, and competitive salary.

Qualifications

• 5+ years commercial experience building Go-based backends.
• Experience delivering RESTful APIs in production environments.
• Experience with SQL for data persistence.
• Experience documenting APIs with Swagger/Open API.
• Experience with event-driven architectures.
• Experience building cloud-native solutions.
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Building new features, modifying existing ones and fixing bugs as they arise.
• Writing automated tests to ensure product quality.
• Ensuring reliable infrastructure through automated monitoring and alerting.
• Planning/upgrading key infrastructure components.
• Collaborating with product team to refine features and requirements.

Skills

Go

RESTful APIs

SQL

Swagger/OpenAPI

Event-driven systems

Cloud native

Docker

Kubernetes

English communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Swagger/OpenAPI

Job description

Gener8 is seeking an experienced backend engineer to power our data-driven platform. You will build, optimize and scale APIs using Go, PostgreSQL and Redis, running on Kubernetes in GCP. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ship features, tests, and reliable infrastructure.

We value strong English communication, cloud-native architecture, and experience with RESTful APIs, Swagger/OpenAPI and event-driven systems. WFH 3 days, 32 days holiday, and competitive salary.