Utility Warehouse

Senior Software Engineer – Golang, Telco Experience

Utility Warehouse

full-time

Posted on:

Location Type: Remote

Location: United Kingdom

Visit company website

Explore more

✨ AI Apply
Apply

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

CloudDistributed SystemsGoKafkaKubernetesPostgresTerraform

About the role

  • Build and integrate APIs that power stakeholder-facing telco journeys.
  • Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver customer-focused features.
  • Contribute to projects that shape how telco products are experienced end-to-end.
  • Help evolve a platform at the heart of the telco offering.

Requirements

  • Strong, hands-on production experience with Go (non-negotiable)
  • Proven fluency with Postgres, Kafka, and Kubernetes
  • Solid experience building distributed systems, including concurrency and event-driven architectures
  • A strong understanding of system resilience, observability, uptime, SLAs, and progressive degradation
  • The ability to deliver end-to-end solutions, from design through build, deployment, and ongoing support
  • Experience working with CI/CD tooling, Terraform, and modern cloud workflows
  • Familiarity with Kafka and database migrations (e.g. CockroachDB to RDS) as a plus
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
  • The ability to thrive in an agile, iterative environment while delivering continuous feature improvements
  • Experience mentoring mid-level engineers and modelling engineering best practices
  • Comfort working in autonomous, product-focused teams.
Benefits
  • An industry-benchmarked salary. We’ll share it during your first conversation.
  • Share Options and Save as You Earn scheme.
  • Flexible working — remote-first with access to hot desks across the UK and a central London hub.
  • Work-from-anywhere policy for up to 2 weeks per year.
  • Discounts on our services and a free Cashback Card.
  • Matched-contribution pension scheme and life assurance up to 4x salary.
  • Family-friendly policies designed to help you and your family thrive.
  • Discounted private health insurance, Employee Assistance line and free Virtual GP.
  • Belonging groups helping shape an inclusive future.
  • A commitment to learning and progression through our Career Development Framework with regular review and promotion cycles.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
GoPostgresKafkaKubernetesdistributed systemsevent-driven architecturessystem resilienceobservabilityCI/CDTerraform
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingmentoringagileiterativeautonomouscustomer-focusedfeature improvementsengineering best practices