Software Engineer – Golang, Telco Experience

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Contribute to team objectives by delivering well-defined work that meets agreed goals.

• Engage in prioritization discussions and identify risks or opportunities as they emerge.

• Design and implement dependable technical solutions within established architectures and standards.

• Make informed technical choices for your tasks, leveraging experience with relevant technologies and seeking guidance when necessary.

• Deliver features and enhancements from design through to completion with assistance from senior engineers.

• Maintain a balance between quality and progress, address technical debt as part of your regular tasks, and ensure services and processes are manageable.

• Develop a thorough understanding of the products and services supported by your team.

• Recognize how your contributions affect user and business outcomes, and incorporate this understanding into daily technical decisions.

• Collaborate effectively through pair programming, code reviews, and team discussions.

• Be receptive to feedback, offer support to teammates when possible, and actively enhance your technical and professional skills.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience with Go is preferred but not mandatory.

• Demonstrated proficiency with Postgres, Kafka, and Kubernetes.

• Extensive experience in building distributed systems, including concurrency and event-driven architectures.

• A solid grasp of system resilience, observability, uptime, SLAs, and progressive degradation.

• Capability to deliver comprehensive solutions, from design through development, deployment, and ongoing support.

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools, Terraform, and contemporary cloud workflows.

• Knowledge of Kafka and database migrations (e.g., CockroachDB to RDS) is a bonus.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving abilities.

• Ability to excel in an agile, iterative environment while consistently delivering feature improvements.

• Experience mentoring mid-level engineers and exemplifying engineering best practices.

• Comfortable working within autonomous, product-focused teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary: We benchmark against the industry and will transparently share the salary during our initial conversation.

• Performance bonus: An annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%.

• Flexible working: We operate as a remote-first organization.

• Work-life balance: We offer an optional four-day work week (90% pay for 90% impact).

• Work from anywhere: You have the flexibility to work abroad for up to three weeks, twice each tax year.

• Holiday: 25 days plus bank holidays (increasing with tenure), with the option to trade up to five days each year.

• UW discounts: Enjoy savings on our services and receive a free Cashback Card.

• Future planning: Matched-contribution pension scheme and life assurance (up to 4x salary).

• Family first: Policies designed to support you and your family’s well-being.

• Flexible benefits: An allowance for private health insurance, dental insurance, or gym membership.

• Sabbaticals: An eight-week paid sabbatical after four years of service.

• Growth: A dedicated learning and development budget and bi-annual promotion cycles.

• Inclusion: Join belonging groups that contribute to shaping our culture.

• Events: Participate in company-wide celebrations including the ‘Great Big Get Together’ and our ‘Good Hearted Go-Getter Awards’.