Senior Go Backend Architect - Private Markets Platform

InvestCloud Ltd.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

InvestCloud is building a green field, next‑generation platform for private markets. We seek Senior Software Engineers to partner with Principal Engineers to design and deliver foundational capabilities.

This hands‑on role focuses on architecture, coding excellence, and modern infrastructure in a fast‑moving, early‑stage environment. You will design and build backend services in Go on AWS with Postgres, own end‑to‑end features, shape architecture, and help evolve engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Senior Software Engineer, building and operating backend systems in production.
• Deep experience in at least one modern backend language (Go, Java, C#), and an interest in working with Go day‑to‑day.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, service design, and API design.
• Practical experience with relational databases, ideally Postgres: schema design, performance considerations, and migration strategies.
• Track record of owning problems end‑to‑end: engaging with stakeholders, clarifying requirements, making design trade‑offs, and delivering working software into production.
• Comfortable working with and evaluating AI tooling in your workflow, while retaining strong engineering judgement and maintaining quality.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services for the platform, primarily in Go, running on AWS with PostgreSQL as core data store.
• Own features and services end‑to‑end from requirements through production.
• Shape technical design and mentor peers through pairing and code reviews.
• Define and evolve the target state architecture, service boundaries, data models, and observability standards.
• Collaborate with product and operations to integrate with upstream and downstream systems; ensure reliability and scalability.

Skills

Senior Software Engineer

Go

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

API design

AWS

CI/CD

Code review

Pairing

Tools

gRPC

HTTP APIs

Terraform

GitOps

Observability tools

Job description

InvestCloud is building a green field, next‑generation platform for private markets. We seek Senior Software Engineers to partner with Principal Engineers to design and deliver foundational capabilities.

This hands‑on role focuses on architecture, coding excellence, and modern infrastructure in a fast‑moving, early‑stage environment. You will design and build backend services in Go on AWS with Postgres, own end‑to‑end features, shape architecture, and help evolve engineering practices.