Senior Go Backend Engineer — Own Scalable Systems (Remote)

Your Next Hire; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company based in the UK is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer proficient in Go to own backend services and make impactful architectural decisions. You'll work on high-throughput cloud-native systems, focusing on performance and reliability, in a collaborative, remote-first environment. Candidates with experience in distributed systems and cloud technologies will thrive in this role where technical decisions are owned by the engineering team.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience building production systems in Go is essential.
• Experience in owning backend services end to end is required.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Own backend services from design through to production.
• Make architectural decisions around scalability and performance.
• Work with product teams to influence technical direction.

Skills

Strong commercial experience building production systems in Go

Experience owning backend services

Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals

Comfortable working in cloud environments

Pragmatic mindset with a bias toward simplicity and reliability

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS or GCP

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

A leading tech company based in the UK is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer proficient in Go to own backend services and make impactful architectural decisions. You'll work on high-throughput cloud-native systems, focusing on performance and reliability, in a collaborative, remote-first environment. Candidates with experience in distributed systems and cloud technologies will thrive in this role where technical decisions are owned by the engineering team.