Backend Developer Golang Node Pub / Sub

Backend Developer / Software Engineer (Go / Node Pub / Sub) Remote / Hybrid to £120k + Equity

Are you an experienced Backend Developer who enjoys building distributed systems, real-time infrastructure and solving complex scalability challenges?

You could be progressing your career at a high growth technology company whose messaging platform powers millions of real-time interactions for developers and businesses worldwide.

Your role:

As a Backend Developer, you'll join the team responsible for the core messaging platform that underpins the company's real-time infrastructure. Working on highly scalable distributed systems, you'll design and build new platform capabilities, improve performance and reliability and solve complex engineering problems at scale.

You'll contribute across low latency messaging, Pub / Sub services, state synchronisation and next generation AI communication infrastructure, delivering production grade software used by developers around the globe.

Working in an AI first engineering environment, you'll leverage modern AI tools to accelerate development while retaining full ownership of architecture, code quality and technical decision-making.

Location / WFH:

You can work from most of the time, collaborating via Slack and meeting up with the team at the dog friendly office in North London for tech talks, lunch and learn events etc. around once a month.

About You

You have strong backend development experience with Go, Node.js or another modern server-side language

You have experience building or operating distributed systems, messaging platforms, event-driven architectures or streaming technologies

You understand scalability, concurrency, performance optimisation and fault tolerant system design

You have experience with Pub / Sub messaging

You enjoy solving complex technical challenges and delivering high quality, production ready software

You're comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced engineering environment

You embrace modern AI development tools while maintaining a strong focus on engineering quality

Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, streaming systems, developer platforms or cloud infrastructure is highly advantageous

What's in it for you:

As a Backend Developer / Software Engineer will earn a competitive salary package including:

Salary to £120k

EMI share option scheme

28 days annual leave

Enhanced maternity and parental leave packages

Your choice of kit and home-station set up

Personal learning and development budget (£1000 p/a + 5% time to work on your own projects)

BUPA Health Insurance + dental costs + mental health and wellness

Pension, Life Assurance, Income Protection

Fully paid one month sabbatical at five years' service

Gym subsidies, Cycle to work scheme and more

Apply now to find out more about this Backend Developer / Software Engineer (Go Node.js Pub / Sub Distributed Systems) opportunity.