Senior Go Backend Engineer — Hybrid, Scalable

United States Digital Space LLC; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

WPP's privacy-first data collaboration platform is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backends powering its global services.

You will work with cross-functional teams, optimize databases, implement secure APIs, and lead reliability efforts using Go, microservices, gRPC, Docker and Kubernetes in a cloud environment.

This hybrid role offers collaboration across product, frontend and DevOps with a focus on performance, security and maintainability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend development with Go.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and microservices.
• Experience with gRPC, RESTful APIs and cloud platforms.
• Containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Relational databases design and PostgreSQL optimization.
• Event-driven architectures with Kafka; CI/CD and automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable backend services and APIs.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks under high load.
• Maintain relational databases for data integrity and scalability.
• Apply security best practices and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Develop automated testing strategies to ensure reliability.
• Collaborate with product, frontend and DevOps teams for deployments.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to knowledge sharing.
• Implement monitoring and logging to detect production issues.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

gRPC

Microservices

RESTful APIs

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Kafka

CI/CD

Testing

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

WPP's privacy-first data collaboration platform is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backends powering its global services.

You will work with cross-functional teams, optimize databases, implement secure APIs, and lead reliability efforts using Go, microservices, gRPC, Docker and Kubernetes in a cloud environment.

This hybrid role offers collaboration across product, frontend and DevOps with a focus on performance, security and maintainability.