Backend Engineer

In this Backend Engineer role, you will build and evolve scalable Go-based services that power Wheely’s premium transport platform. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into robust designs, emphasizing speed, reliability, and maintainability. The role involves migrating legacy systems toward a modern microservices stack and ensuring performance under heavy load. This is a chance to impact a fast-growing, tech-forward company shaping urban mobility with a strong engineering culture.

• Office-based role in West London, four days a week with one remote day
• Salary starting from 90,000
• Employee stock options plan
• Private medical and dental insurance
• Life and critical illness cover
• Latest-generation MacBook Pro and 4k display

• Develop high-quality Go code and create new microservices
• Gradually migrate from legacy Ruby monolith to modern services
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and data scientists on technical designs
• Optimize systems for low latency and high reliability
• Support scalable backend architecture to handle heavy traffic

• 3+ years of experience building scalable backend services
• Proficiency in Go or willingness to be evaluated in strongest language
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis)
• Experience with message brokers (RabbitMQ or Kafka)
• Upper-Intermediate English (B2) or higher and ability to discuss trade-offs

• ability to debate technical trade-offs
• collaboration with cross-functional teams
• effective communication of complex ideas
• Go
• Relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis)
• RabbitMQ or Kafka