Senior Backend Engineer, Go Microservices (Remote/Hybrid)

Socium - Teams Done Differently; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Socium - Teams Done Differently is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to help scale our Go microservices platform behind the Autoscoring system, which powers real-time play detection and online competition for a growing global community. You will design Go microservices on Kubernetes, craft scalable REST APIs, and evolve database schemas, while owning tests and production lifecycles.

Collaborative cross-functional work includes frontend, mobile, product, and hardware teams, with flexible hybrid

Qualifications

• 5+ years commercial programming experience.
• Comfortable with REST APIs, SQL, and microservices.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building Go microservices running on Kubernetes.
• Building scalable REST APIs.
• Creating and evolving database schemas.
• Writing automated tests and owning services through production lifecycle.
• Working closely with frontend, mobile, product, and hardware teams to ship features end to end.
• Sharing knowledge through code reviews and pair programming.

Skills

Go knowledge

Kubernetes

Docker

REST API design

SQL

CI/CD

Unit & end-to-end testing

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Socium - Teams Done Differently is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to help scale our Go microservices platform behind the Autoscoring system, which powers real-time play detection and online competition for a growing global community. You will design Go microservices on Kubernetes, craft scalable REST APIs, and evolve database schemas, while owning tests and production lifecycles.

Collaborative cross-functional work includes frontend, mobile, product, and hardware teams, with flexible hybrid