Senior Backend Engineer (Go) - Scale and Ship Fast, West London

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

Benefits offered by this job

Office in West London

Salaries £90k–£120k

Employee stock options

Private medical and dental insurance

Life and critical illness cover

MacBook Pro

Monthly travel credit toward Wheely

Cycle to Work scheme

Dev development stipend

Relocation support with visa

Job summary

Wheely in West London is seeking a Mid/Senior Backend Engineer to join our Marketplace team. You will write high-quality Go, build new microservices, and migrate away from legacy services while keeping systems fast and scalable.

Our stack includes Go, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, and gRPC running on AWS and Kubernetes; you’ll collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and designers in an environment that values clean code, TDD and CI/CD.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend experience building scalable services.
• Go proficiency or strong experience in another language.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis) and message brokers (RabbitMQ or Kafka).

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality, performant code primarily in Go.
• Implement new microservices while helping us responsibly manage and migrate away from legacy services.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and data scientists to turn abstract requirements into concrete technical designs.
• Ensure our systems stay responsive under heavy load, optimising for both latency and reliability.

Skills

Go

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

RabbitMQ

Kafka

gRPC

Thrift

Tools

Go

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

RabbitMQ

Kafka

gRPC

Terraform

Job description

Wheely in West London is seeking a Mid/Senior Backend Engineer to join our Marketplace team. You will write high-quality Go, build new microservices, and migrate away from legacy services while keeping systems fast and scalable.

Our stack includes Go, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, and gRPC running on AWS and Kubernetes; you’ll collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and designers in an environment that values clean code, TDD and CI/CD.