Senior Go Backend Engineer | Build Scalable Financial Data

Bud; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology firm in Leeds is seeking a Backend Engineer to develop scalable applications in Go. You'll join a collaborative team, working with modern technologies including MySQL, Google Cloud Platform, and more. The ideal candidate has a passion for clean code and technology trends, with responsibilities including technical solution delivery and mentoring. This role offers a competitive salary, flexible working, and numerous benefits, including a learning budget and generous time off.

Benefits

Competitive Salaries

Pension matching up to 5%

£1,000 Learning & Development Budget

Quarterly R&D days

Mental Health Support

Wellbeing Allowance

Private Medical Insurance

Flexible Working

25 days + bank holidays + additional time off

Enhanced parental leave

Volunteering Leave

Qualifications

• You care deeply about best practices and are passionate about clean, scalable and performant code.
• Strong understanding of application, information and infrastructure architectures.
• Passionate about keeping up to date with new tools and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Delivering technical solutions independently and in collaboration with the team.
• Building strong relationships within the team and wider organisation.
• Communicating effectively in both technical and non-technical discussions.

Skills

Proficient in Go

Clean code practices

Strong architecture understanding

Quality standards champion

Tools

MySQL

Cassandra

Redis

Google Cloud Platform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

A financial technology firm in Leeds is seeking a Backend Engineer to develop scalable applications in Go. You'll join a collaborative team, working with modern technologies including MySQL, Google Cloud Platform, and more. The ideal candidate has a passion for clean code and technology trends, with responsibilities including technical solution delivery and mentoring. This role offers a competitive salary, flexible working, and numerous benefits, including a learning budget and generous time off.