Backend Developer Golang Node Pub / Sub

Overview

As a Backend Developer, you will shape the core messaging platform that powers real-time interactions at scale. You’ll design and build highly scalable distributed systems and low-latency Pub/Sub components while improving performance and reliability. You’ll work in an AI-first engineering environment, owning architecture and code quality. This role offers opportunities to influence platform capabilities and collaborate across cross-functional teams in a fast-growing tech company.

Pay / Benefits

• salary to 120k
• EMI share option scheme
• 28 days annual leave
• Enhanced maternity and parental leave
• Your choice of kit and home-station setup
• Personal learning and development budget (1000 p/a + 5% time to work on own projects)

Responsibilities

• design and build platform capabilities for the core messaging system
• improve performance, reliability and fault tolerance of distributed systems
• work on low-latency messaging, Pub/Sub services, and state synchronization
• contribute to AI-driven development of the infrastructure and tooling
• deliver production-grade software used by developers worldwide
• own architectural decisions and code quality
• collaborate with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment

Key requirements

• strong backend development experience with Go, Node.js or another modern server-side language
• experience building or operating distributed systems, messaging platforms, event-driven architectures or streaming technologies
• understanding of scalability, concurrency, performance optimization and fault-tolerant design
• experience with Pub/Sub messaging
• ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced engineering environment
• familiarity with AI development tools is a plus
• experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, streaming systems, developer platforms or cloud infrastructure is highly advantageous

• autonomous working style
• problem-solving mindset
• strong collaboration and communication
• Go
• Node.js
• Pub/Sub messaging