Senior GO Developer

Burns Sheehan; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Burns Sheehan is hiring a Senior Backend Developer to lead the architectural shift toward a serverless, event-driven model. The role focuses on building low-latency Go services and collaborating with a Rust codebase in a high-scale environment.

The position is in London (Waterloo) with a requirement of 1 day in the office per week, offering £90,000-£110,000 plus equity and the opportunity to shape architectural direction at a venture-backed scale-up.

Qualifications

• Production experience building with Go and/or Rust.
• Design high throughput data pipelines and integrate AI models or APIs.
• Strong knowledge of serverless technologies and migrating workloads to serverless.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural migration from Docker on Kubernetes to serverless, event-driven models.
• Design, build and maintain low-latency backend services in Go; coordinate with Rust codebase.

Skills

Go

Rust

AWS/Serverless

Kubernetes

AI Integrations

Job description

Senior Backend Developer (Golang/GO) | Serverless Migration

London (Waterloo) - 1 day a week in office

£90,000-£110,000 + equity

Go, Rust, AWS/Serverless, Kubernetes, AI Integrations

Venture backed, recently funded scale up

High scale, ultra low latency infrastructure with genuine architectural influence

We're partnered with a venture backed scale up operating at the cutting edge of 3D and AR advertising. They build high scale, ultra low latency infrastructure to support global brands.

They're now hiring a Senior Backend Developer to join a brand new engineering team, to lead the architectural shift from an expensive Docker on Kubernetes setups toward a serverless, event driven model.

This is a high impact role for someone who wants real architectural input, not just delivery. You'll design, build and maintain low latency, high throughput backend services in GO/Golang and work with an existing Rust codebase.

You'll report directly to the CTO and have the space to offer key architectural insight on serverless migration, integrate cutting edge AI models into the product suite, and AI in the developer workflow.

It's best suited to someone who thrives working independently and as part of a small team.

Ideal experience:

• Production experience building with GO/Golang and/or Rust
• Experience designing high throughput data and metrics pipelines and integrating AI models or API endpoints
• Strong knowledge of serverless technologies, with hands on experience migrating workloads from containerised to serverless environments
• Experience owning both backend product engineering and some platform tasks

Bonus

• Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes architecture
• Self motivated, with strong architectural judgement and clear technical communication

Senior Backend Developer (Golang/GO) | Serverless Migration

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.