Senior Golang Software Engineer

Overview

As a Senior Golang Backend Engineer, you will build and maintain scalable backend systems in a fast-growing software house. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable features and superior user experiences, while coaching teammates to grow technically and professionally. You’ll drive architectural decisions and help shape product roadmaps in a dynamic, innovative environment. This fully remote role operates on UK hours and offers opportunities to advance your Golang and functional programming career.

Pay / Benefits

• Fully remote
• UK working hours
• Salary 100-130k

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with frontend teams to ensure seamless backend integration powering customer experiences
• Partner with stakeholders and product teams to execute ambitious roadmaps that meet user needs and business objectives
• Mentor and lead engineers to promote continuous learning and knowledge sharing
• Support hiring and growth to scale the team as the organization expands
• Develop and maintain complex backend systems using Golang and microservice patterns
• Design well-defined interfaces using gRPC, protocol buffers, REST/JSON, and GraphQL
• Contribute to DevOps practices, including containerized services and cloud-native deployments

Key requirements

• 10+ years of commercial software engineering experience
• Strong hands-on experience with Golang
• Expertise in gRPC, protocol buffers, RESTful JSON and GraphQL
• Solid understanding of microservice architectures and best practices
• Experience with caching (Redis) and object storage
• Hands-on with relational databases (SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Experience with Kubernetes and serverless environments (Lambdas, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run)
• Proficient in CI/CD pipelines (Google Cloud Build, Github Actions)
• Fluency in English (verbal and written)
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Ability to make technical decisions in the best interests of users and business

• mentoring and coaching
• results-oriented mindset
• clear communication
• Golang
• gRPC
• protocol buffers

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