Senior Go Engineer: Build Reliable, Production-Ready Backend

Grid Dynamics; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bleeding-edge projects

Competitive salary

Flexible schedule

Medical insurance

Sports benefits

Corporate events

Professional development

Well-equipped office

Job summary

Grid Dynamics in London is seeking an experienced Senior Golang Developer to join a high-performing engineering team. This hands-on role focuses on designing, building, testing and delivering production-quality software with ownership across the full development lifecycle.

You will work on Golang projects, participate in CI/CD, code reviews, testing, debugging, and maintain documentation. The ideal candidate has strong Go skills, production experience, and excellent collaboration in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience developing Golang applications.
• Senior-level software engineering experience in a production environment.
• Strong understanding of software development best practices.
• Experience with automated testing and test-driven development.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and modern development workflows.
• Strong knowledge of version control and collaborative development practices.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience working with production systems and taking ownership of delivered software.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively within a collaborative engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop new features, enhancements and fixes using Golang.
• Own the full software delivery lifecycle from development through to production release.
• Produce high-quality, reliable and maintainable production code.
• Write and maintain automated unit and integration tests.
• Participate in technical code reviews, both as a contributor and reviewer.
• Integrate development work into existing CI/CD pipelines.
• Troubleshoot, debug and resolve production issues effectively.
• Contribute to engineering standards, coding practices and continuous improvement.
• Work collaboratively with other developers and wider engineering teams.
• Participate in stand‑ups, sprint planning, retrospectives and other team ceremonies.
• Support production stability and participate in an on‑call rota where required.
• Provide appropriate technical documentation to support ongoing maintenance and handover.

Skills

Golang

Senior-level engineering

CI/CD pipelines

Testing & TDD

Version control

Debugging

Collaboration

Production ownership

Tools

Git

CI/CD tools

Docker

Job description

Grid Dynamics in London is seeking an experienced Senior Golang Developer to join a high-performing engineering team. This hands-on role focuses on designing, building, testing and delivering production-quality software with ownership across the full development lifecycle.

You will work on Golang projects, participate in CI/CD, code reviews, testing, debugging, and maintain documentation. The ideal candidate has strong Go skills, production experience, and excellent collaboration in a fast-paced