Senior Go Backend Engineer — Scalable Microservices & Kafka

Cognizant; Burgess Hill; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

American Express in Burgess Hill, United Kingdom, seeks a Golang Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services powering a global Loyalty platform. You will build event-driven data pipelines with Kafka and optimise PostgreSQL schemas while containerising with Docker.

Join a cross-functional engineering team, contribute to code reviews, and deliver high-performance software in a hybrid work model. Candidates must reside in the UK and be ready to start within four weeks.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Go development for backend services and APIs.
• Strong PostgreSQL design, queries, and performance tuning.
• Experience with Apache Kafka for event-driven data pipelines.
• Git-based workflows (GitLab/GitHub/Bitbucket/SVN).
• Docker containerisation and CI/CD familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality backend services and APIs using Go.
• Build and maintain event-driven systems and data pipelines with Kafka.
• Work with PostgreSQL databases to optimise data models and queries.
• Containerise services with Docker and support deployment pipelines.
• Participate in code reviews and cross-team engineering discussions.

Skills

Go

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Git

Docker

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering

Job description

American Express in Burgess Hill, United Kingdom, seeks a Golang Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services powering a global Loyalty platform. You will build event-driven data pipelines with Kafka and optimise PostgreSQL schemas while containerising with Docker.

Join a cross-functional engineering team, contribute to code reviews, and deliver high-performance software in a hybrid work model. Candidates must reside in the UK and be ready to start within four weeks.