Quick overview
Job description
Location: Manchester / hybrid (UK remote considered)
Salary: £70,000 - £100,000 + bonus and benefits
Type: Permanent, full time
Our client, a fast-growing UK technology business, is expanding its backend team and needs a Go developer to help build the services behind its core product. Engineers here own their work from design through to production.
What you'll do:
- Design, build and maintain backend services and APIs in Go
- Work within a microservices architecture running on Kubernetes in the cloud
- Write clean, well-tested code and take an active part in code reviews
- Improve the performance, reliability and security of live services
- Support live services using modern monitoring and observability tools
- Work closely with product and platform colleagues to ship features
What you'll bring:
- Commercial experience writing Go in production (mid to senior level)
- A good grasp of REST APIs and microservices
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Cloud experience on AWS or GCP (Azure also welcome)
- CI/CD pipelines; Terraform a plus
- SQL databases such as PostgreSQL; Kafka a bonus
- Clear communication and a team-first approach
Benefits:
- Pension, private healthcare, bonus and, with some clients, share options.
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