Senior Backend Go Developer

Senior Backend Go Developer

We’re looking for a Senior Go Developer to lead the design and development of our services.

You’ll build and maintain systems that serve millions of users in real-time.

This is a London-based position.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, reliable, and maintainable backend systems and services.

• Lead system design discussions and document architectural decisions, trade-offs, and technical risks.

• Design service boundaries, APIs, data models, asynchronous workflows, and integration patterns.

• Improve system observability, fault tolerance, resilience, and operational readiness.

• Mentor engineers and contribute to technical direction and engineering best practices.

• Design and develop reusable libraries.

• Uphold code quality and ensure automation.

• Engage in unit testing and integration testing.

Required Qualifications

• Strong system design skills, including the ability to design scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.

• Ability to evaluate architectural trade-offs involving scalability, consistency, availability, latency, cost, and operational complexity.

• Demonstrated senior-level experience building production-grade Go services, including system design, distributed systems, performance optimisation, and operational ownership.

• Strong command of PostgreSQL and Redis.

• Proven experience with distributed systems, async workflows and Domain-Driven Design.

• Proficiency with Docker, observability stacks, and RESTful APIs.

• In-depth understanding of OOP, SOLID principles, and design patterns.

• Prior experience with Microservices architecture.

• Experience in cloud systems [GCP, AWS or Azure].

• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures.

• • Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks [React] is a plus.