Senior Backend Engineer - Growth Platforms (Go/K8s) Remote

Utility Warehouse; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A utility service provider in the City Of London is seeking a senior backend-leaning engineer to enhance their customer acquisition platforms. The ideal candidate will have strong production experience with Go, fluency in GraphQL, Docker, and Kubernetes, and will contribute to system reliability and scalability. This position offers autonomy and the chance to mentor mid-level engineers. Competitive salary and flexible working options available.

Benefits

Industry-benchmarked salary

Share options

Flexible working

Work-from-anywhere policy

Discounts on services

Matched-contribution pension scheme

Discounted private health insurance

Qualifications

• Strong production experience with Go is non-negotiable.
• Good understanding of resilience and observability.
• Comfortable mentoring mid-level engineers.

Responsibilities

• Improve resilience, scalability and system reliability.
• Support distributed system improvements and maintenance.
• Collaborate with product/design to refine problem solutions.

Skills

Production experience with Go

Fluency with GraphQL

Fluency with Docker

Fluency with Kubernetes

Distributed systems understanding

Experience with CI/CD tooling

Handling concurrency

Problem-solving skills

Tools

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Terraform

Job description

A utility service provider in the City Of London is seeking a senior backend-leaning engineer to enhance their customer acquisition platforms. The ideal candidate will have strong production experience with Go, fluency in GraphQL, Docker, and Kubernetes, and will contribute to system reliability and scalability. This position offers autonomy and the chance to mentor mid-level engineers. Competitive salary and flexible working options available.