Senior Golang Engineers

Senior Golang Engineers (Kubernetes Platform) 📍 Canary Wharf, London (2 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 days per week in Canary Wharf.