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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Golang Engineer - **Company:** Just Eat Holding Limited - **Location:** London, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £73,653.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Application Integration Architecture, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Systems Architecture, Large Language Models, Reliability of Systems, Event Driven Architecture, Software Coding, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Golang, Microservices - **Published:** September 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5869167136 ## About the Role * Extensive Go experience: Substantial commercial experience (5+ years) writing clean, highly efficient, and testable code in Go. * Architectural Event-Driven expertise: Deep expertise in architecting microservices and event-driven systems, with a mastery of the complexities involving eventual consistency and distributed architecture. * An SRE mindset: You care deeply about system reliability after your code goes live, maintaining a strong focus on improving production services and incident response. * AWS Cloud Services leadership: Advanced hands-on experience designing and deploying scalable systems utilizing Amazon Web Services, including DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, and S3. * AI-Assisted Development: You are highly comfortable leveraging AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate workflow, architect scaffolding, and debug complex, distributed issues. ## Description We are looking for a proactive technical leader with a robust engineering foundation to drive our platform forward. As a Senior Engineer, you will bring deep expertise in system architecture from day one, guiding the team and shaping the technical vision required to build the high-volume POS and menu integrations that keep global brands running smoothly. As an engineer in the JET Connect team, you won't just be writing code; you'll be building the high-volume POS and menu integrations that keep global brands like McDonald's, KFC, and Domino's running smoothly across 10+ countries. 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