IT & Software

Senior Software Engineer, GoLang

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London · England · United Kingdom

  • Evolve, enhance, and modernise large-scale systems
  • Drive adoption of technologies such as Go
  • Improve system performance, reliability, and scalability
  • Develop automation for infrastructure deployment, monitoring, and scaling
  • Build tools and processes supporting continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)
  • Make data-guided decisions affecting core business metrics and processes
  • Apply platform and reliability engineering practices, including observability, performance optimisation, analytics, and security best practices
  • Facilitate collaboration between teams and promote continuous improvement
  • Mentor junior engineers on engineering practices, coding standards, and troubleshooting
  • Contribute to the development, delivery, maintenance, and support of public-facing and internal insurance systems

Requirements

  • Highest level of proficiency developing applications using most of the listed technologies
  • Strong Golang knowledge and experience
  • Knowledge of AWS products such as Lambdas and DynamoDB
  • Comfortable working in Azure and Azure DevOps environments
  • Containerisation and infrastructure-as-code approach
  • Good understanding of development methodologies and design patterns
  • Cloudflare knowledge
  • C# ASP.NET and .NET Core are a plus but not necessary
  • Experience with React, TypeScript, Astro, and NodeJS is a plus
  • Willingness to learn; candidates do not need to meet every listed requirement

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in developing and modernising large-scale systems using Go, AWS, and Azure, while applying platform and reliability engineering practices. Capable of mentoring junior engineers and driving continuous improvement through collaboration and automation.

Highest-signal resume keywords

  • Golang Development
  • AWS Products
  • Azure DevOps
  • Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD)
  • Infrastructure-as-Code

Hard Skills

  • Application Development
  • Performance Optimisation
  • Automation Development
  • Containerisation
  • Development Methodologies
  • Design Patterns
  • Observability
  • Analytics
  • Security Best Practices
  • Troubleshooting

Soft Skills

  • Mentoring
  • Collaboration
  • Continuous Improvement

Industry Keywords

  • Public-Facing Systems
  • Internal Insurance Systems

Tools & Technologies

  • AWS Lambda
  • DynamoDB
  • Azure
  • Cloudflare
  • C# ASP.NET
  • NodeJS
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Astro

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