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Vaco by Highspring

Lead Software Engineer in Golang - London Based

London
£60k – £80k/yr
Posted 1 day ago
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Lead Software Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer to drive the development of our next-generation Copyright Data Management (CDM) platform. You'll provide technical leadership for a strategically important programme, working closely with engineering and product teams across our UK and US offices to deliver scalable, reliable software.

What you will do

  • Own the technical delivery of the CDM initiative, working closely with the Director of Software Engineering and other engineering leaders.
  • Work closely with Product, Engineering and stakeholders across the UK and US to define priorities and execution plans.
  • Remain hands-on by designing, implementing and reviewing production code for key platform components.
  • Identify technical risks and drive pragmatic solutions.
  • Guide architectural decisions and engineering best practices.
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions and pairing.
  • Promote the effective use of AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and software quality.

Essential skills

  • Strong commercial experience developing production systems in Go.
  • Experience designing and building distributed systems using technologies such as PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch.
  • Strong experience building and operating cloud-native applications on AWS, including EKS, RDS, EC2, CloudWatch and Kinesis.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and containerised deployments.
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD, observability and modern software delivery practices.

Desirable skills

  • Experience with event-driven architectures (Kinesis, Kafka or similar).
  • Experience leading technical projects.
  • Previous mentoring or people management experience.
  • Experience modernising legacy platforms.
  • Experience collaborating with international engineering teams.

Why join us

This is an opportunity to play a key role in modernising a business-critical platform while influencing engineering practices across an international organisation. You'll have significant technical ownership, work closely with teams in both the UK and US, and remain hands-on while shaping the future direction of the platform.

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Highspring LLC (d/b/a Vaco by Highspring) and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries ("we," "our," or "Vaco by Highspring") are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by applicable law. The company is also committed to ensuring that persons who need them are provided with reasonable accommodations; if an accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact HR@vaco.com.

Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.

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By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. Additionally, you agree to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. Lastly, you agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

For residents of Ontario, Canada only: to the extent the position for employment is not with Highspring or not otherwise noted as vacant above, candidate should be informed that this role is to replace a presently employed person at Vaco by Highspring's client.

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Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring's use of AI can be found here (https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client's use of AI products in hiring.

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· the individual's skill sets, experience and training;

· licensure and certification requirements;

· office location and other geographic considerations; and

· other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or participation in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company's retirement plan (or similar retirement benefits).

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Skills

Golang
PostgreSQL
Elasticsearch
AWS
EKS
RDS
EC2
CloudWatch
Kinesis
Kubernetes
CI/CD
Observability
Event-Driven Architectures
Technical Project Leadership
Mentoring
Legacy Platform Modernization

Location

London, England, United Kingdom

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