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Lead GO Developer

Posted: 08/04/26
Recruiter:Intec Select Ltd
Reference:3095544254
Type:Permanent
Disciplines: Developer
Salary:£70,000 - £75,000 Annual Fully Remote + 30 days holiday
Location:City, London
Description: Lead GO Engineer

Our client, a digital SaaS provider backed by the government is hiring a Lead GO Engineer to join a fast-scaling, purpose-driven SaaS organisation delivering impactful digital services. You will lead on several greenfield projects as the client continues to scale & transform. Our client has a fantastic ethos, focussed on aiding & helping people improve their lives. Our client is offering a fully remote contract & benefits (30 days holiday, 6% pension & health care) paying up to 75,000 to start ASAP.

In this role, you will design, develop, and optimise scalable, secure, cloud-based systems using Go (Golang), PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Docker. You will contribute to architecture discussions, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and help ensure the delivery of reliable, high-quality features.

This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who has proven experience in a previous Lead or Management position as you must be able to demonstrate the capabilites to steer projects & provide coaching.
Role and Responsibilities:
  • Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Go (Golang)
  • Build and manage messaging patterns and asynchronous workflows with Redis and RabbitMQ
  • Develop efficient, scalable database schemas and queries in PostgreSQL
  • Build clean, well-documented RESTful APIs and service integrations
  • Contribute to containerised environments using Docker and maintain cloud-native services on AWS
  • Participate in architecture discussions, CI/CD pipelines, and quality assurance processes
  • Mentor peers, share knowledge, and promote best practices in backend development
Skills and Experience:
  • Solid experience in backend development roles
  • Strong proficiency in Go (Golang), including concurrency models and thread-safe coding
  • Proven experience with Redis (caching & Pub/Sub) and RabbitMQ (messaging)
  • Strong experience with PostgreSQL and libraries such as sqlx and gorm
  • Solid understanding of Docker and containerised development
  • Experience building RESTful APIs and integrating services
  • Desirable: AWS services (Lambda, EventBridge, SQS), microservices architecture, CI/CD tooling, event-driven systems

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