Senior Backend Engineer - Go | Remote & Scalable Systems

Lockwood Publishing Ltd; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare Plan

Pension Plan

Life Assurance

Work From Home

Training & Development

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Lockwood Publishing Ltd is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for our backend team working remotely (EU/UK based). You will help scale Avakin Life’s backend systems, delivering reliable and secure services for millions of players.

The role emphasizes collaboration in an agile environment, ownership of systems, and a strong focus on dev-ops, testing, and performance. Join a family of creative, motivated developers building the future of social gaming.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Solid understanding of agile concepts and processes.
• Good knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Solid grasp of dev-ops concepts and processes.
• Excellent time management and estimation skills.
• Strong communication skills.
• Self-motivated and eager to learn.
• Ability to adapt to change with resilience.
• Understanding of backend development best practices.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams across Lockwood to identify functionality and improvements.
• Deliver maximum value in an agile environment.
• Take on new technical skillsets as required.
• Manage risk through a dev-ops culture and thorough testing.
• Analyze the system for issues and resolve as priority dictates.
• Continuously improve development and planning processes.
• Understand value to the company and how work relates to it.
• Own the systems produced and contribute to team identity and spirit.
• Foster a learning culture within the team.
• Follow best practices for secure, compliant, and reliable systems.

Skills

5+ years software engineering

Agile concepts

SDLC

DevOps concepts

Time management

Communication

Adapt to change

Backend development best practices

Distributed computing

Tools

Golang

Java

Python

Node.js

C#

Docker

AWS

Azure

GCP

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

Lockwood Publishing Ltd is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for our backend team working remotely (EU/UK based). You will help scale Avakin Life’s backend systems, delivering reliable and secure services for millions of players.

The role emphasizes collaboration in an agile environment, ownership of systems, and a strong focus on dev-ops, testing, and performance. Join a family of creative, motivated developers building the future of social gaming.