Posted a month ago
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.
