Senior Software Engineer

Job description

Senior Go Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer at YLD, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We’re looking for someone curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You should be skilled in problem-solving and experienced in designing scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’re also an effective communicator and a strong team player. Together with your team, you’ll thrive in a fast-paced engineering environment, delivering outstanding results and exciting projects.

Your day-to-day responsibilities:

• Crafting excellent products! As a Full Stack Engineer, focussing on Golang, you will be building new features that meet the needs of our clients’ customers, as well as improving their Digital Platforms;
• Continuously delivering changes to products, as our client is moving to a full CI/CD model;
• Working closely with your team, regularly collaborating on engineering initiatives, to continually push yourselves to be better;
• Participating in regular show and tells to promote your work to both your department and the wider company;
• Joining our clients’ internal events, including meeting external speakers, going to quiz nights, etc.

Preferred skills:

• Strong backend engineering experience, with Go/Golang as a primary or preferred language;
• Comfortable working in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud;
• Experience building and maintaining APIs and backend services, including SaaS platforms;
• Familiarity with modern infrastructure and distributed systems;
• Solid understanding of modern deployment practices, including Docker, containers, and Kubernetes;
• Curiosity and openness to working in AI-assisted development environments, including experimenting with agentic coding tools and AI-driven workflows to improve productivity and quality.

You should apply if you are:

• Self-motivated, proactive and always looking for ways to improve and develop yourself;
• A good communicator, both in writing and verbally. You’ll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in business-friendly language;
• Detail oriented;
• Possess strong problem-solving skills that balance innovation with pragmatic technology choices to solve business needs;
• Used to working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment;
• Analytical and problem-solving-oriented;
• A genuine believer in diversity and fairness.

Our typical recruitment process:

• 1st Interview with a Talent Partner (30/45 mins)
• Technical Interview with 2 Senior Developers (1h30)

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

United Kingdom

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

03-03-2026

Profession type

ICT

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English