Senior Golang Engineers

Senior Golang Engineers (Kubernetes Platform) 📍 Canary Wharf, London (2–3 days per week onsite) 💰 £150,000–£160,000 + Bonus + Benefits 🕒 Full-Time | Permanent About the Role We're looking for experienced Senior Golang Engineers to help build and scale a high-performance cloud-native platform used by millions of users and mission-critical systems. You'll play a key role in designing distributed services, improving platform reliability, and driving engineering excellence across a modern Kubernetes-based environment. This is an opportunity to work on complex technical challenges, influence architecture decisions, and mentor other engineers within a highly collaborative team. What You'll Be Doing Designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend services in Go.Building and operating cloud-native applications on Kubernetes.Developing microservices and distributed systems with a focus on reliability, performance, and security.Driving improvements in CI/CD, observability, and platform automation.Collaborating closely with Platform, DevOps, Security, and Product teams.Leading technical discussions, code reviews, and architectural decisions.Mentoring engineers and promoting engineering best practices. Essential Strong commercial experience developing production systems in Golang.Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes in large-scale environments.Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architecture.Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker.Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.Strong understanding of system design, scalability, and performance optimisation.Experience working in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Desirable Experience building internal developer platforms.Knowledge of service mesh technologies.Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.Exposure to security, networking, and platform engineering concepts. What's On Offer Base salary of £150,000–£160,000.Performance bonus.Pension contribution.Private healthcare.Flexible working arrangements.Modern engineering culture with significant technical ownership.Hybrid working model: 2–3 days per week in Canary Wharf.