Senior Go Engineer - Serverless & AWS (Remote UK)

Burns Sheehan Limited; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Burns Sheehan Limited in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own and scale a Go-based platform in a remote-first setting. You will drive development across distributed serverless microservices, focusing on performance and reliability while maintaining a strong developer experience.

The role emphasizes broad ownership, collaboration on product and technical direction, and practical scaling challenges within a small, agile team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial software engineering experience.
• Backend engineering experience with Go (Golang).
• Strong cloud infrastructure knowledge, ideally AWS.
• Strong understanding of APIs, integrations and scalable backend design.
• Comfortable working in a remote-first, startup-style team with broad ownership.

Responsibilities

• Scale an existing Go-based platform in a distributed, serverless environment.
• Improve performance, reliability, and developer experience of the platform.
• Collaborate across product and engineering to shape technical direction in a remote team.

Skills

Go / Golang

AWS

Serverless architectures

ReactJS

Tools

AWS Lambda

REST APIs

Job description

Burns Sheehan Limited in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own and scale a Go-based platform in a remote-first setting. You will drive development across distributed serverless microservices, focusing on performance and reliability while maintaining a strong developer experience.

The role emphasizes broad ownership, collaboration on product and technical direction, and practical scaling challenges within a small, agile team.