Senior Golang Engineers

Senior Golang Engineers (Kubernetes Platform)

📍 Canary Wharf, London (2–3 days per week onsite)

💰 £150,000–£160,000 + Bonus + Benefits

🕒 Full-Time | Permanent

About the Role

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.

Essential

• Strong commercial experience developing production systems in Golang.
• Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes in large-scale environments.
• 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.

Desirable

• 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.

What's On Offer

• Base salary of £150,000–£160,000.
• Performance bonus.
• Pension contribution.
• Private healthcare.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Modern engineering culture with significant technical ownership.
• Hybrid working model: 2–3 days per week in Canary Wharf.