Senior Backend Engineer; Go

Job Title

Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

Package

£80,000 – £100,000 + benefits

Depending on experience

Location

UK based

Remote first with optional office time

We’re building a high-throughput, cloud-native platform where backend engineering actually matters. This role is about owning core services written in Go that sit at the heart of the product. You’ll be trusted with real responsibility, real scale, and real technical decisions.

If you enjoy designing systems, not just tickets, you’ll feel at home here.

We’re a product-led tech company solving complex problems with simple, well-designed systems. The focus is on performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability. Engineers here are expected to think, challenge, and improve how things are built, not just ship and forget.

• Owning backend services end to end from design through to production
• Making architectural decisions around scalability, performance, and resilience
• Taking responsibility for the health of the services you build

• Building and evolving Go microservices in a cloud environment
• Designing clean APIs and data contracts
• Working with distributed systems and async workflows

• Improving observability, logging, and monitoring
• Designing for failure and handling real world edge cases
• Optimising services that operate under load

• Working closely with product and other engineers
• Influencing technical direction and best practice
• Mentoring others through code and technical discussion

• Go
• Microservices architecture
• AWS or GCP
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Postgre
  
  SQL and Redis
• CI / CD pipelines and infrastructure as code

• Strong commercial experience building production systems in Go
• Experience owning backend services, not just contributing tickets
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals
• Comfortable working in cloud environments
• Pragmatic mindset with a bias toward simplicity and reliability

• Experience scaling systems used by real customers
• Background in fintech, payments, gaming, or data heavy platforms
• Experience shaping architecture rather than inheriting it

• Engineers here have real ownership and influence
• You’ll work on systems that actually run at scale
• No micromanagement, no ticket factories
• Technical decisions are made by the people building the software

If you’re a Go engineer who cares about system quality, ownership, and doing things properly, let’s talk.

Drop me a message or apply directly.