Senior Go Engineer – Cloud Platform / Distributed Systems

Location: Birmingham / hybrid or UK remote

Salary: Permanent: £90,000 – £130,000 + equity and benefits. Contract: competitive day rate

Type: Permanent or contract

Our client, a scaling technology business running high-volume systems across the UK and Europe, needs a senior Go engineer to help shape its platform. A hands-on role with real influence over architecture and standards.

What you'll do:

• Lead the design and build of distributed backend systems in Go


• Evolve the cloud platform: Kubernetes, infrastructure as code and CI/CD


• Own reliability through strong observability, metrics, alerting and incident follow-up


• Make services fast, scalable and secure under real production load


• Mentor engineers, lead code reviews and raise the technical bar


• Shape architecture decisions alongside product and engineering leadership

What you'll bring:

• Several years of backend engineering, with strong production Go


• Deep experience of distributed systems and concurrency


• Kubernetes and containers in production


• AWS or GCP, plus Terraform or similar


• Messaging such as Kafka; databases such as PostgreSQL


• gRPC, Prometheus/Grafana or a fintech/payments background a plus


• Experience mentoring or leading other engineers

Benefits:

Equity, bonus, pension and private healthcare (permanent roles).