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 cloud services to enhance user experience for productivity electronic devices, with a modern stack (Go, GCP, Terraform), collaborating 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 for a respected technology company
• 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

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