Senior Go Engineer – Cloud Platform / Distributed Systems

Eclipse IT Recruitment; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Pension

Private healthcare

Job summary

Eclipse IT Recruitment is seeking a senior Go engineer for a scaling technology business operating across the UK and Europe. This hands-on role influences architecture and standards, with London as a base and hybrid or remote options.

You will lead distributed backend design in Go, evolve the Kubernetes-based platform, own reliability with observability, mentor engineers, and shape architecture with product leadership. Equity and pension/healthcare benefits are included for permanent roles.

Qualifications

• Several years of backend engineering with production Go experience.
• Deep experience of distributed systems and concurrency.
• Kubernetes and containers in production.
• AWS or GCP, plus Terraform or similar.
• Messaging such as Kafka; databases such as PostgreSQL.
• gRPC, Prometheus/Grafana or fintech/payments background a plus.
• Experience mentoring or leading other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and build of distributed backend systems in Go.
• Evolve the cloud platform: Kubernetes, infrastructure as code and CI/CD.
• Own reliability through strong observability, metrics, alerting and incident follow-up.
• Make services fast, scalable and secure under real production load.
• Mentor engineers, lead code reviews and raise the technical bar.
• Shape architecture decisions alongside product and engineering leadership.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Kafka

gRPC

Mentoring

Job description

Location: London / hybrid or UK remote

Salary: Permanent: £90,000 – £130,000 + equity and benefits. Contract: competitive day rate

Type: Permanent or contract

Our client, a scaling technology business running high-volume systems across the UK and Europe, needs a senior Go engineer to help shape its platform. A hands-on role with real influence over architecture and standards.

What you'll do:

• Lead the design and build of distributed backend systems in Go
• Evolve the cloud platform: Kubernetes, infrastructure as code and CI/CD
• Own reliability through strong observability, metrics, alerting and incident follow-up
• Make services fast, scalable and secure under real production load
• Mentor engineers, lead code reviews and raise the technical bar
• Shape architecture decisions alongside product and engineering leadership

What you'll bring:

• Several years of backend engineering, with strong production Go
• Deep experience of distributed systems and concurrency
• Kubernetes and containers in production
• AWS or GCP, plus Terraform or similar
• Messaging such as Kafka; databases such as PostgreSQL
• gRPC, Prometheus/Grafana or a fintech/payments background a plus
• Experience mentoring or leading other engineers

Benefits: Equity, bonus, pension and private healthcare (permanent roles).