Senior Backend Engineer - Go & Microservices (Hybrid)

Wheely; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office-based role in West London

Salary starting from £90,000

Employee stock options plan

Private medical and dental insurance

Life and critical illness cover

Latest-generation MacBook Pro and 4k

Monthly credit towards Wheely journeys

Cycle to Work scheme

Relocation support, including visa

visa sponsorship and allowance

Job summary

Wheely in London is seeking a Mid/Senior Backend Engineer to help us build and scale our Go-based microservices, balancing performance and reliability. You’ll work with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, and modern cloud tooling to deliver high-quality software.

You’ll join a team shipping fast with TDD, DDD, and CI/CD, collaborating with product managers, designers, and data scientists to turn complex requirements into robust technical designs. Some remote work options available.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building scalable backend services.

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality Go code for new microservices.

Skills

Go programming

Backend engineering

English - B2

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

RabbitMQ

Kafka

gRPC

Thrift

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Wheely in London is seeking a Mid/Senior Backend Engineer to help us build and scale our Go-based microservices, balancing performance and reliability. You’ll work with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, and modern cloud tooling to deliver high-quality software.

You’ll join a team shipping fast with TDD, DDD, and CI/CD, collaborating with product managers, designers, and data scientists to turn complex requirements into robust technical designs. Some remote work options available.