Staff Software Engineer, Golang

Role Overview

• You will work directly with the VP Engineering to help set the new standard for large-scale system architecture.
• You will lead by example, personally designing and delivering high quality code which builds systems that are resilient, scalable, and observable, ensuring they can handle our next phase of growth.
• You will lead the evolution of our platform and will act as the bridge between technical estate and business requirements, ensuring stakeholders understand the "why" behind technical decisions and tradeoffs, and helping engineers understand how we can get there.
• Teams will look to you for guidance and you will serve as the escalation point for the most complex technical decisions.
• You will be mentoring and pairing with senior engineers, helping them grow into technical leaders and foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

Requirements

• The highest level of proficiency designing, developing, operating and improving highly observable applications using Golang and other modern languages
• Deep understanding of AWS and AWS products like Lambdas, DynamoDB, etc but also comfortable or with tracked experience in Azure and Azure devops
• Knowledge of containerisation and IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, SST)
• Experience of having worked on, and led, modernisation initiatives, using techniques like the Strangler Fig
• Experience with technologies like Cloudflare or similar
• A solid understanding of development methodologies and design patterns
• Proficiency with C# ASP.NET, .Net Core are a plus (future work will be written in Golang/TypeScript though)
• React, Typescript, Astro, NodeJS are also a nice-to-have. You don’t need to tick off everything on this list
• so don’t let that hold you back from applying. We want to make sure you’re learning plenty during your time with us!

Tech Stack

• ASP.NET
• AWS
• Azure
• DynamoDB
• Node.js
• React
• Terraform
• TypeScript
• Go
• .NET

Benefits

We want to give you a great work environment, support your growth both personally and professionally, and provide benefits that make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Here are some of the benefits you can look forward to:

• 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
• A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to “work from anywhere”
• Employer matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
• A one-off £300 “work from home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
• Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
• 25 days holiday (increasing with years of employment to 30 days) + 2 days “my time” per year
• Private medical cover, critical illness cover and employee assistance programme
• A healthy learning and training budget
• Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
• Regular events
• from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected.