Summary
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A profitable, fast-growing technology company is looking for a backend engineer to build reliable, scalable services for a global digital platform. You will work primarily with Go while helping evolve an established application architecture and improve engineering delivery. The technical environment includes relational and document databases, messaging systems, caching, remote procedure calls, and cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate values test-driven development, domain-driven design, continuous delivery, and maintainable code, and enjoys taking ownership of complex backend problems.
Highlights
Join a profitable, rapidly expanding technology business and help scale backend systems used by a substantial international customer base. Work with a modern Go-centered stack, established engineering practices, cloud infrastructure, and multiple data technologies. The role emphasizes clean, maintainable code, test-driven development, domain-driven design, and end-to-end engineering ownership.
Description
About Wheely
Wheely is redefining premium transportation across major cities in Europe, the US, and the Middle East.
We blend cutting-edge technology with the craft of five-star chauffeuring to deliver an experience trusted by more than 100,000 active riders and 1,200 corporate accounts.
We're a profitable, fast-growing scale-up with $43M raised and over $100M in annual revenue.
Having recently launched in New York City, we're expanding rapidly across the US and EMEA.
If you take pride in your craft and want to help shape the next chapter of our growth, we'd love to hear from you.
About The Role
We're looking for a Backend Engineer to join one of our teams that keeps frameworks lean and focuses on what matters: clean, maintainable code, shipped fast with TDD, DDD, and continuous integration and delivery.
We are a Go shop, and while we're busy migrating away from our Ruby monolith, our stack includes PostgreSQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, gRPC, and Thrift.
Everything runs on AWS and Kubernetes, managed via Terraform.
Our interview process includes a recruiter screen, algorithms and live coding.
Senior+ candidates also complete a system design section and a structured review of past experience and achievements.
Responsibilities
Write high-quality, performant code primarily in Go.Implement new microservices while helping us responsibly manage and migrate away from legacy services.Work closely with product managers, designers, and data scientists to turn abstract requirements into concrete technical designs.Ensure our systems stay responsive under heavy load, optimising for both latency and reliability.
Requirements
3+ years of experience building and maintaining scalable backend services.We use Go.
If you know it, great.
If not, we'll interview you in your strongest language (Python, C++, Ruby, etc.).
We hire for engineering fundamentals, not syntax.In-depth knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis) and experience with message brokers like RabbitMQ or Kafka.Upper-Intermediate (B2) English proficiency or higher.
You should be comfortable debating technical trade-offs with your peers.
What We Offer
What We Offer
Office-based role in West London, four days a week with flexible start and finish times, plus one remote day of your choiceSalary starting from £90,000Employee stock options planPrivate medical and dental insuranceLife and critical illness coverLatest-generation MacBook Pro and 4k displayMonthly credit towards Wheely journeysCycle to Work schemeProfessional development stipendRelocation support, including visa sponsorship and allowance
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