Senior Software Engineer - Backend (GO)

Join our team and be part of a company that truly lives its values. With our expertise and commitment to innovation, we aim to build trust and make health and wellness accessible to all. By fostering inclusivity and care, we work collaboratively to improve the well-being of our colleagues, customers, and communities.

H&B&Me is a scale-up business, inside Holland & Barrett, focused on building the future of personalised health and wellness. Powered by data, science, and smart technology, we are developing innovative digital products that help people take control of their health in a more personalised, proactive way..

Operating with the pace and mindset of a start-up — backed by the strength of a leading health and wellness brand — we're a fast-growing team of engineers, scientists, product thinkers and health experts working to redefine the future of wellbeing.

We're looking for a talented Senior Backend Engineer to join our growing H&B&Me technology team on a 12 months fixed term contract — our digital health and wellness platform transforming the way customers take control of their wellbeing. You'll play a key role in building secure, scalable, and high-performing backend services in Golang, helping deliver personalised, data-driven experiences that make a real difference.

What Makes This Role Exciting?

You'll join a forward-thinking product and engineering team shaping the future of health-tech at scale. We combine innovation with purpose, giving you the chance to work on meaningful problems with modern tools and strong engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Write clean, efficient, and well-tested Golang code within a microservices environment
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to deliver robust backend solutions
• Design and maintain APIs and data contracts
• Take part in code reviews, pair programming, and Agile ceremonies
• Contribute to bug/incident resolution and technical documentation
• Mentor junior engineers and champion engineering best practices
• Support CI/CD pipelines and uphold high standards of code quality, security, and observability
  
  

Location:

This is a remote role. Occasionally, travel will be required to our London Hub and other H&B locations.

Key Requirements

• Experience building and maintaining backend services in Golang
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs, microservices, and relational databases like PostgreSQL
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, GitHub Actions) and cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
• Knowledge of gRPC & Protocol Buffers for service design and RPC communication
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Passion for clean, secure, and scalable code
• A solid track record of contributing to high-impact engineering projects
  
  

Our Benefits for this role include, but not limited to:

• H&B Employee Discount - 25%
• Pension company contribution
• 33 Days Holiday per year (Inclusive of bank holidays)
• Exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers
• Electric Car Scheme
  
  

We're passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we're committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues' unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B.

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