Backend Developer - Golang

Infinityquest — United Kingdom · Posted ~8 hours ago

Mid Full-time

Skills

Golang backend development distributed systems microservices event-driven architecture cloud-native development financial transactions security resilience observability cloud-native

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Join a fast-paced engineering team building next-generation banking and payment platforms. As a Golang backend engineer, you will design, develop, and operate resilient microservices and event-driven systems for secure, real-time, high-volume transactions. You will collaborate across architecture, SRE, DevOps, and platform engineering while contributing throughout the software lifecycle.

Highlights

Opportunity to build and operate scalable backend services for high-volume, mission-critical financial transactions. The role provides exposure to cloud-native architecture, resilient microservices, event-driven systems, distributed systems at scale, and close collaboration with architecture, SRE, DevOps, and platform teams.

Description

Role Overview We are seeking highly skilled Golang Engineers to join a fast-paced engineering team responsible for building and enhancing next-generation banking and payment platforms. The successful candidate will play a critical role in designing, developing, and operating scalable backend services supporting high-volume, mission-critical financial transactions. You will work within a modern cloud-native environment, building resilient microservices and event-driven systems that support secure, real-time transaction processing across a complex banking ecosystem. The role requires strong engineering fundamentals, deep Golang expertise, and experience operating distributed systems at scale. Working closely with Architects, Product Owners, SRE, DevOps, and Platform Engineering teams, you will contribute to the end-to-end software development lifecycle while ensuring solutions meet the highest standards of performance, security, resilience, and observability. Key Responsibilities Software Engineering Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services using Golang.Build highly scalable APIs and microservices supporting banking and payment capabilities.Develop reusable libraries, frameworks, and engineering standards.Participate in system architecture and technical design discussions.Ensure code quality through automated testing, code reviews, and engineering best practices.Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues.Distributed Systems & Scalability Design and implement distributed systems capable of processing high-throughput financial transactions.Optimise system performance, latency, availability, and fault tolerance.Implement resilience patterns including:Circuit breakersRetry mechanismsDead-letter queuesBulkheadsRate limitingSupport multi-service platform architectures operating at scale.Event-Driven Architecture Design and implement event-driven solutions leveraging:Apache KafkaRabbitMQStreaming architecturesAsynchronous processing patternsDevelop event producers and consumers supporting business-critical workflows.Ensure reliable event delivery, replay strategies, and idempotent processing.Cloud & Container Platforms Build and operate services running within Kubernetes environments.Develop and maintain Docker containers.Contribute to deployment automation and CI/CD pipelines.Collaborate with Platform and SRE teams on scalability, security, and operational excellence.Data Engineering & Persistence Design and optimise data models for both relational and NoSQL databases.Work with:PostgreSQLMongoDBBigQueryRedis (desirable)Ensure performance, resilience, and data integrity across services.Implement efficient querying, indexing, and transactional processing.Engineering Excellence Promote agile and DevSecOps practices.Support observability through:LoggingMetricsTracingMonitoringParticipate in architecture reviews and engineering governance.Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering communities of practice.