Senior Golang Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Senior Golang Developer to join a high-performing engineering team in London. This is a hands-on development role focused predominantly on Golang, where you will be responsible for designing, building, testing and delivering production-quality software. You will have ownership across the full development lifecycle and play an active role in maintaining the reliability and quality of the platform.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop new features, enhancements and fixes using Golang.
• Own the full software delivery lifecycle from development through to production release.
• Produce high-quality, reliable and maintainable production code.
• Write and maintain automated unit and integration tests.
• Participate in technical code reviews, both as a contributor and reviewer.
• Integrate development work into existing CI/CD pipelines.
• Troubleshoot, debug and resolve production issues effectively.
• Contribute to engineering standards, coding practices and continuous improvement.
• Work collaboratively with other developers and wider engineering teams.
• Participate in stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives and other team ceremonies.
• Support production stability and participate in an on-call rota where required.
• Provide appropriate technical documentation to support ongoing maintenance and handover.

Requirements

• Strong commercial experience developing applications with Golang / Go.
• Senior-level software engineering experience within a production environment.
• Strong understanding of software development best practices.
• Experience with automated testing and test-driven development principles.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and modern development workflows.
• Strong knowledge of version control and collaborative development practices.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience working with production systems and taking ownership of delivered software.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively within a collaborative engineering team.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for a hands-on Senior Go Engineer who can take ownership of complex development work and deliver robust, production-ready solutions. You should be comfortable working independently, contributing to technical decisions, reviewing other engineers' code and supporting applications once they are live.