Software Engineer, Golang – Telco Experience

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

📋 Description

• In the role of a Software Engineer within the Telco Experience Team, you will contribute to the development and integration of APIs that enhance stakeholder-facing telco journeys, collaborating closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and business stakeholders.

• Work in conjunction with core platform teams focused on supplier integrations and shared infrastructure, playing a key role in projects that define the end-to-end experience of our telco products.

• Your primary technologies will include Go, Kafka, Kubernetes, Postgres, and MongoDB, allowing you to gain practical experience with event-driven systems and contemporary observability practices.

• Support team objectives by delivering well-defined projects that align with established goals.

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

• Design and implement dependable technical solutions that adhere to existing architectures and standards.

• Deliver features and enhancements from the design phase to completion, with guidance from senior engineers.

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

• Collaborate effectively through pairing, code reviews, and team discussions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience with Go is advantageous, though not mandatory.

• Demonstrated proficiency with Postgres, Kafka, and Kubernetes.

• Significant experience in building distributed systems, including knowledge of concurrency and event-driven architectures.

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

• Capability to deliver end-to-end solutions, from design through to build, deployment, and ongoing support.

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools, Terraform, and modern cloud workflows is essential.

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

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

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

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

• Comfort in working within autonomous, product-oriented teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary: We benchmark against industry standards and will discuss salary openly during our initial conversation.

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

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

• Work-life balance: We provide an optional four-day workweek (90% pay for 90% impact).

• Work from anywhere: You have the opportunity 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: Benefit from savings on our services and access to hundreds of rewards and discounts via Perkbox.

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

• Family first: Tailored policies designed to support you and your family.

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

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

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

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

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