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# Golang Engineer

- **Company:** Smart Edge Solutions
- **Location:** Burgess Hill, UK
- **Salary:** £45,035.0 - £116,358.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Data Analysis, JIRA, Databases, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, DevOps, NoSQL, Scrum Methodology, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Unix Commands, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Backend, Apache Kafka, Restful APIs, Docker, Golang, Microservices
- **Published:** July 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=85675854aa3e6863

## About the Role

* Excellent knowledge in Golang
 * Excellent knowledge in developing microservices & RESTful APIs
 * Experience in Kafka
 * Experience with SQL/NoSQL database
 * Experience developing backend systems
 * Excellent leadership and managerial skills
 * Experience in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) software development methodology
 * Experience with ALM, JIRA
 * Good knowledge on DevOps and CI/CD
 * Good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes
 * Experience developing resilient, scalable software and writing high quality code
 * Good problem solving, analytics, and debugging skills
 * Experience in fast-paced collaborating coding environments

Desirable skills:

 * Good understanding of BDD/TDD
 * Hands on experience with UNIX commands.

## Description

As a Golang Engineer, you will be responsible for working as part of an agile team to deliver features with your focus being on designing and developing Golang based microservices/APIs., * Lead and implement best practices in the team such as consistent branching strategy, coding standards, BDD/TDD, CI/CD and DevOps

 * Involvement in every step of the software development life cycle, from design, development, testing release changes and troubleshoot whenever necessary.
 * Follow the Scrum Methodology, participating actively in sprint backlog refinement, sprint planning, stand-ups, sprint review and sprint retrospective.
 * Support other team members and teams with sharing your knowledge and implementing innovative solutions that can be used across platforms.


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