Role: Golang Engineer

Location: London, UK
Employment: Permanent
Work mode: Hybrid (3 days at client office in central London office)

Responsibilities

• Establish and enforce best practices for microservices architecture, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability of our solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
• Mentor team members on microservices design principles, patterns, and technologies.
• Take personal responsibility for creating and maintaining microservices, primarily in Golang.
• Iterate design and build to solve bugs, improve performance, and add new features.
• Containerise your services and make ready for deployment onto a k8s environment using helm charts.
• Ensure resilience and reliability of services.
• Develop a complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture and dependency systems. Apply that understanding in code.
• Write tests with high coverage including unit, contract, e2e, and integration.
• Version control code with git and build, test, and deploy using CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and test remotely on your own machine and deploy to low-level environments.
• Review team members code, identifying errors and improving performance and readability. Drive code design and process trade-off discussions within team when required.
• Report status and manage risks within your primary application/service.
• Perform demos and join acceptance discussions with analysts, developers, and product owners.
• Assist in task planning and review as part of a sprint-based workflow.
• Estimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test, deployment, configuration, documentation) to meet the business requirements.
• Own feature engineering within the team, collaborating with a separate data science to understand and implement their requirements.
• Bridge the gap between architecture and engineering, work alongside product architects to align with software design.