Senior Golang Engineers

Oliver Bernard; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Pension contribution

Flexible working arrangements

Hybrid working model

Modern engineering culture

Job summary

Oliver Bernard is seeking an experienced Senior Golang Engineer to design, develop, and scale backend services in a cloud-native, Kubernetes-based environment. You will own critical components, guide architecture decisions, and mentor other engineers in a highly collaborative team.

The role emphasizes reliability, performance, security, and platform automation within a modern engineering culture. Hybrid work is available, with 2 days onsite in Canary Wharf, London.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building backend services in Go at scale.
• Hands-on Kubernetes and cloud-native platform design.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and microservices.
• Experience with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentoring and guiding engineers in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services in Go.
• Build and operate cloud-native apps on Kubernetes.
• Develop microservices with focus on reliability, performance, security.
• Improve CI/CD, observability, and platform automation.
• Collaborate with Platform, DevOps, Security, and Product teams.
• Lead technical discussions and code reviews.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

Microservices

Cloud-native

Docker

CI/CD

Observability

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

AWS

Azure

GCP

Tools

Terraform

Istio

Service Mesh

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Canary Wharf, London (2 days per week onsite)

About the Role

We're looking for experienced Senior Golang Engineers to help build and scale a high-performance cloud-native platform used by millions of users and mission-critical systems. You'll play a key role in designing distributed services, improving platform reliability, and driving engineering excellence across a modern Kubernetes-based environment.

This is an opportunity to work on complex technical challenges, influence architecture decisions, and mentor other engineers within a highly collaborative team.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend services in Go.
• Building and operating cloud-native applications on Kubernetes.
• Developing microservices and distributed systems with a focus on reliability, performance, and security.
• Driving improvements in CI/CD, observability, and platform automation.
• Collaborating closely with Platform, DevOps, Security, and Product teams.
• Leading technical discussions, code reviews, and architectural decisions.
• Mentoring engineers and promoting engineering best practices.
• Deep hands‑on experience with Kubernetes in large-scale environments.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architecture.
• Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong understanding of system design, scalability, and performance optimisation.
• Experience working in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience building internal developer platforms.
• Knowledge of service mesh technologies.
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Exposure to security, networking, and platform engineering concepts.

What's On Offer

• Base salary of £150,000–£160,000.
• Performance bonus.
• Pension contribution.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Modern engineering culture with significant technical ownership.
• Hybrid working model: 2 days per week in Canary Wharf.