Senior Go Engineer is required to design and deliver robust, scalable cloud backend services for an innovative European consumer technology scale-up building high-end cloud platforms that enhance user experience across productivity-focused electronic devices.
This role sits within a modern, Golang-first engineering environment (Go, GCP, Terraform) with minimal legacy, offering genuine influence over future-proof system design.
Salary: £80,000–£100,000 + benefits (30 days’ holiday). Location: Remote-first, with 2 days per week in the London Paddington area.
Key skills required for the Senior Go Engineer
- Strong commercial experience with Go, building and maintaining scalable cloud backend services
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (GCP strongly preferred; AWS or Azure also valuable)
- Solid grounding in software design, clean code, CI/CD, system robustness and scalability
- Experience with observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, logging, metrics and tracing
- Infrastructure as Code experience (e.g. Terraform) – this is not a DevOps role
- Understanding of lower-level languages such as C++ or Rust
- Experience designing scalable APIs and working within multi-tenant architectures
- Background in software engineering with a relevant technical degree
- Ability to take end-to-end ownership with a pragmatic, problem-solving mindset
- Collaborative, analytical, and comfortable working cross-functionally
- Professional written and spoken English
What you’ll do as a Senior Go Engineer
- Design, develop and test cloud-native backend services using Go
- Build and optimise resilient APIs and frameworks for multi-tenant environments
- Deploy, monitor and operate services on GCP using modern CI/CD practices
- Explore AI-driven opportunities within the cloud strategy, including optimisation of existing models
- Design data pipelines and IAM policies supporting petabyte-scale datasets
- Collaborate closely with embedded, product, design and content teams
- Champion continuous improvement, raising engineering standards and code quality
Why this role?
- Join a mission-driven consumer technology innovator focused on creativity and productivity
- Be part of a large, European Golang-focused cloud engineering group working at scale
- Work with a clean, modern codebase and minimal technical debt
- Collaborate with highly skilled engineers and product specialists
- A culture that values focus, craftsmanship and technical excellence
- Generous benefits including additional leave, wellness initiatives, premium insurance and regular team events (including some European travel)
- A supportive environment with scope to influence both technical strategy and product evolution
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