Senior Go Engineer - Energy Platform (Remote)

Utility Warehouse; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading utility service provider in Greater London seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join their Energy team, working on high-impact projects like Energy Transformation. Must have solid experience in Go, Postgres, Kafka, and Kubernetes, with a focus on building reliable and resilient distributed systems. The role offers autonomy and opportunities for mentoring within a collaborative environment. Attractive salary and benefits include flexible working options and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Industry-benchmarked salary

Share Options

Flexible working

Work-from-anywhere policy

Discounted private health insurance

Career Development Framework

Qualifications

• Strong, hands-on production experience with Go is non-negotiable.
• Proven fluency with Postgres, Kafka, and Kubernetes.
• Solid experience building distributed systems, including concurrency and event-driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of system resilience, observability, uptime, SLAs, and progressive degradation.
• Experience mentoring mid-level engineers and modelling engineering best practices.
• Comfortable working in autonomous, product-focused teams.

Responsibilities

• Define team goals and ensure proposed work aligns with objectives.
• Design and implement complex technical solutions across multiple technologies.
• Own large technical features from design to completion.
• Lead discussions on how squad work contributes to broader company strategy.
• Mentor engineers and foster collaboration.

Skills

Go

Postgres

Kafka

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

CI/CD tooling

Terraform

Strong communication skills

Job description

A leading utility service provider in Greater London seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join their Energy team, working on high-impact projects like Energy Transformation. Must have solid experience in Go, Postgres, Kafka, and Kubernetes, with a focus on building reliable and resilient distributed systems. The role offers autonomy and opportunities for mentoring within a collaborative environment. Attractive salary and benefits include flexible working options and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.