A Senior Golang Developer is required to design and deliver robust, scalable cloud backend services for an innovative European consumer technology scale-up developing high-end productivity electronic devices. As a Senior Golang Engineer you’ll play a key role in advancing high-quality cloud solutions with a modern stack (Go, GCP, Terraform), collaborating across design, embedded, data and frontend teams to shape future-proof systems with minimal legacy.
Salary £80,000 to 100,000k + Bens including 30 days holiday (remote with 2 days in the office, London Paddington area)
Key skills required for the Senior Golang Developer
- Strong proficiency in Go, with hands-on software engineering experience building and maintaining cloud backend services
- Commercial experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, Azure (GCP highly beneficial)
- Strong skills in software design, clean coding, CI/CD, robustness, systems scalability, and build and run.
- Logging, metrics and tracing with skills such as Grafana and Prometheus
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (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 in multi-tenant architectures
- Background in software engineering with a relevant technical degree
- Able to take end-to-end ownership and apply pragmatic problem-solving
- Collaborative mindset, analytical thinker, and comfortable working cross-functionally
- Professional written and spoken English
What you’ll do as a Senior Golang Developer
- Design, develop, and test backend services using Go
- Build and optimise robust APIs and API frameworks for multi-tenant environments
- Deploy, monitor, and operate services in GCP with CI/CD practices
- Explore AI opportunities within cloud strategy, including optimisation of existing models
- Design data pipelines and IAM policies to manage petabyte-scale datasets
- Work closely with embedded, design, product and content teams in a cross-functional environment
- Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, elevating code quality and engineering standards
Why this role?
- Join a mission-driven consumer-tech innovator focused on enhancing human creativity and productivity
- Join a large international European Golang-focused cloud engineering team and work with top-end engineers
- Work with a clean, modern codebase and minimal legacy
- Collaborate with highly skilled colleagues across engineering and product disciplines
- Enjoy a culture that values focus, craftsmanship, and technical excellence
- Additional benefits including extra leave days, wellness initiatives, premium insurance and regular team events, some European trips
- A supportive environment with opportunities to contribute to both technical strategy and product evolution
Opus Resourcing acts as an employment agency with respect to permanent employment.
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