Senior Golang Engineers
Oliver Bernard Ltd
London, UK
13 days ago
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Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
£150,000.0 - £160,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source
Tech stack
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Code Review
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Distributed Systems
Performance Tuning
Prometheus
Cloud Platform System
Istio
Delivery Pipeline
Grafana
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Backend
Containerization
Kubernetes
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Docker
Golang
Microservices
Job description
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.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits & conditions
- 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.
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