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Golang Engineer
Senior Software Engineer (Contract) | AI/ML, Cloud & Backend
Contract: Initial 6 Months Location: London (Hybrid – 3 Days Onsite Minimum) Start Date: ASAP Engagement: Full-Time Contract IR35: Outside Rate: £500-£600 per day
About the Role
We’re partnering with a leading enterprise software business seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to drive a critical phase of product and platform delivery. This hands-on contract role requires a senior engineer with the ability to integrate swiftly into an established engineering function while contributing across:
- Backend engineering
- Cloud infrastructure
- Platform architecture
- AI/ML-enabled product initiatives
You will collaborate closely with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams to deliver key roadmap objectives, supporting the design, build, deployment, and optimisation of production-grade systems used by enterprise customers.
The opportunity combines: ✔ Backend engineering & platform infrastructure ✔ Cloud architecture & enterprise integrations ✔ AI/ML feature development (where applicable)
This is a highly collaborative environment, where engineering, product, and delivery work together to solve complex business challenges.
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Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, deploy, and optimise production-grade digital systems
- Contribute to backend services, APIs, and platform architecture
- Work closely with engineering leads to deliver key product milestones
- Deploy and operate distributed systems across multi-cloud environments
- Build enterprise-grade integrations with third-party APIs and SDKs
- Implement authentication, authorisation, and provisioning workflows
- Design secure access control, policy enforcement, and audit capabilities
- Support AI/ML feature development, data workflows, and visualisation (where required)
- Improve system scalability, reliability, observability, and performance
Requirements
Core Skills & Experience
- 5+ years building and shipping production-grade software
- Strong full-stack engineering background in high-scale environments, with expertise in:
- Frontend: React, TypeScript, Next.js
- Backend: Go (preferred)
- Ability to quickly adapt to new tools, systems, and technical challenges
- Proven systems design skills in:
- Resilience, scalability, performance, and security
- Engineering judgment, pragmatic decision-making
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Experience with automated testing and engineering best practices
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Cloud & Infrastructure Requirements
- Strong experience in modern cloud and platform engineering, including:
- Multi-cloud deployments (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Kubernetes & container orchestration
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
- Private networking & cloud security architecture
- Secrets management & encryption key management
- CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
- Observability (OpenTelemetry, Grafana)
- Workflow orchestration (Temporal)
Highly Desirable
- Experience with BYOC (Bring-Your-Own-Cloud) SaaS deployments
- Enterprise integrations: APIs, SDKs, and identity tools (OAuth2, SAML, OIDC, SCIM)
- Security & governance: Access controls, audit logging, compliance (SOC 2/ISO 27001)
- AI/ML: Experience building AI-enabled products using:
- Python, ML/NLP workflows
- Modern databases
- Frontier models (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini)
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