Senior Software Engineer – London

Overview

In this role you lead backend development for a highly scalable platform at a growing tech team in renewable energy. You will work in an agile, cross-functional environment with autonomy, shaping the platform and contributing to technical strategy. Expect to tackle distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and real-time data challenges that impact asset management and market responsiveness. You will mentor engineers and drive pragmatic technical decisions to deliver a reliable, high-availability platform. This is a hands-on role with meaningful, real-world impact and collaboration across Product and Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to design, build, and evolve core platform components
• Develop high-quality, scalable Go backend services
• Tackle distributed systems and cloud infrastructure challenges
• Contribute to the platform’s availability, reliability, and roadmap
• Define and deliver longer-term technology strategy and platform roadmap
• Collaborate with Product and other stakeholders to translate requirements into solutions
• Own technical problems and drive delivery to completion
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices
• Stay current with emerging technologies to improve the platform
• Work in an agile, cross-functional team to deliver value

Key requirements

• Strong commercial backend software engineering experience
• Professional experience with Go/Golang or another strongly typed language
• Experience with AWS and cloud-native technologies
• Experience with microservices and distributed systems
• Experience with multiple database technologies
• Experience with CI/CD and modern software development practices
• Track record of contributing to technology strategy and roadmaps
• Experience taking ownership of complex technical problems and delivering pragmatic solutions
• Strong communication skills to explain concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience mentoring or guiding other engineers
• Adaptable and organized in a fast-moving environment
• Genuine interest in using technology to solve real-world problems

• Strong communication
• Mentoring or technical leadership
• Collaborative problem solving
• Go / Golang backend development
• AWS + cloud-native infrastructure
• Microservices and distributed systems

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