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Senior Go Developer

VIQU Limited
Posted 8 hours ago, valid for 25 days
Location

London, Greater London EC1R 0WX

Contract type

Full Time

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  • VIQU is seeking a Senior Go Developer for a remote position based in the UK, offering a competitive salary.
  • The role involves collaborating with backend and engineering teams to transition into microservice architecture while mentoring junior developers.
  • Candidates must have over 6 years of backend development experience, particularly with Golang and ideally PHP.
  • Experience with unit testing, Git, SQL, and cloud services such as AWS is essential, along with skills in debugging and performance optimization.
  • The successful candidate will also participate in an on-call rota after completing their probation period.

Senior Go Developer

Remote (UK based)

Competitive Salary

VIQU has partnered with a renowned brand who are seeking a Senior Go Developer to join their backend team in their transition into micro service architecture.

The Senior Go Developer will be required to collaborate with backend and engineering teams to deliver new features and improvements, working alongside senior developers to design and implement solutions. The successful candidate will write high-quality, maintainable code, ensuring robust test coverage through unit tests. The Senior Go Developer will also work to mentor junior developers, taking ownership of assigned tasks and projects, and contributing to documentation and knowledge sharing. Additionally, the Senior Go Developer will participate in the on-call rota upon successful completion of their probation period.

Key Requirements of the Senior Go Developer:

  • 6+ years of backend development experience with Golang and ideally PHP
  • Proven experience building scalable enterprise systems and microservices.
  • Experience with unit testing, Git, and SQL
  • Knowledge of cloud services (ideally AWS but Azure and GCP are also acceptable)
  • Skilled in debugging critical business systems.
  • Familiar with caching solutions, performance optimisation, and CI/CD automation.
  • PHP experience (functional & OOP) and familiarity with frameworks like Laravel and Symfony (desired)

To discuss this exciting opportunity in more detail, please APPLY NOW for a no obligation chat with your VIQU Consultant. Additionally, you can contact Katie Dark on 

If you know someone who would be ideal for this role, by way of showing our appreciation, VIQU is offering an introduction fee up to £1,000 once your referral has successfully started work with our client (terms apply).

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Senior Go Developer

Remote (UK based)

Competitive Salary

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.