4. Senior Backend Engineer at Wheely
Write Go microservices for Wheely's premium chauffeur platform and help migrate it off a Ruby monolith. Perfect for backend engineers who care about latency and clean code, and are happy to pick up Go if it is new to them.
Write Go microservices for Wheely's premium chauffeur platform and help migrate it off a Ruby monolith.
Perfect for backend engineers who care about latency and clean code, and are happy to pick up Go if it is new to them.
Key skills: Go; PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis; RabbitMQ or Kafka; gRPC and Thrift; AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform; TDD and DDD.
At a glance: West London · in the office 4 days a week, 1 remote day · 6+ years · posted 8 October (18 days ago) · salary from £120,000
The Stack's take: Go appears in just 20 UK listings on The Stack in 90 days, but Wheely will interview you in your strongest language. The catch: four office days a week. Best for: a backend engineer who wants to move into Go.
Find out more: Senior Backend Engineer on The Stack
What a job seeker should do this week
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Write Go microservices for Wheely's premium chauffeur platform and help migrate it off a Ruby monolith. Perfect for backend engineers who care about latency and clean code, and are happy to pick up Go if it is new to them.
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Write Go microservices for Wheely's premium chauffeur platform and help migrate it off a Ruby monolith.
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