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# Senior Backend Engineer

- **Company:** Gener8
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £63,651.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), JIRA, Automation of Tests, Persistent Data Structure, Github, PostgreSQL, Redis, Cloud Services, Swagger, SQL Databases, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Restful APIs, Docker, Golang
- **Published:** July 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5818158679

## About the Role

This is the right opportunity for you if you have:

 * 5+ years commercial experience building systems with Go
 * Experience writing RESTful APIs in production environments
 * Experience using some flavour of SQL for data persistence
 * Experience documenting APIs with Swagger / Open API
 * Experience working with event driven systems
 * Experience building cloud native solutions
 * Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
 * Excellent verbal and written English communication skills

## Description

A few of the things in our backlog that you could be working on:

 * Extending, improving and optimising our data APIs that ingest well over 100 million events a month.
 * Creating new data feeds for our commercial partners that deliver valuable data to drive business decisions.
 * Creating brand new APIs and endpoints to support our mobile apps.
 * Improving, upgrading & refining our entire cloud based infrastructure

You'll be working closely with our existing product and engineering team, including Staff backend engineer and Head of Engineering.

On the backend we use Go, PostgreSQL and Redis to serve RESTful and gRPC APIs running on Kubernetes, all hosted on GCP. We use GitHub for version control and CI, Jira for tracking tasks and Slack for sending silly GIFs.
Responsibilities

 * Building new features, modifying existing ones and fixing bugs as they arise
 * Writing automated tests to keep the quality of our products high
 * Ensuring the smooth operation of our infrastructure through automated monitoring and alerting
 * Planning and executing upgrades of key pieces of infrastructure
 * Working closely with the product team to refine new features and requirements


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