Senior Backend Engineer
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Description
📍UK Remote
Does this sound like you?
You’re a seasoned backend engineer who loves solving complex problems at scale. You think in systems, write clean and thoughtful code, and care deeply about performance and reliability. You enjoy collaborating with product managers, designers and DevOps teams to bring ideas to life, and you’re just as comfortable shaping architecture as you are reviewing a pull request. You lead by example, share your knowledge generously, and take real pride in building services that people rely on every day.
What You’ll Be Doing (in a Nutshell)
As a Senior Go Developer in our Engineering team, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our backend architecture. Working within a cross-functional squad, you’ll design and deliver robust, scalable microservices that power seamless experiences for millions of users. From architecture decisions to production optimisation, you’ll have real ownership and impact.
Day-to-day You Can Expect To
Does this sound like you?
You’re a seasoned backend engineer who loves solving complex problems at scale. You think in systems, write clean and thoughtful code, and care deeply about performance and reliability. You enjoy collaborating with product managers, designers and DevOps teams to bring ideas to life, and you’re just as comfortable shaping architecture as you are reviewing a pull request. You lead by example, share your knowledge generously, and take real pride in building services that people rely on every day.
What You’ll Be Doing (in a Nutshell)
As a Senior Go Developer in our Engineering team, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our backend architecture. Working within a cross-functional squad, you’ll design and deliver robust, scalable microservices that power seamless experiences for millions of users. From architecture decisions to production optimisation, you’ll have real ownership and impact.
Day-to-day You Can Expect To
- Design, build and maintain high-performance microservices in Go
- Own the full lifecycle of services – from initial design through to deployment, monitoring and ongoing optimisation
- At least 3 years’ experience developing user-facing features and services in Go
- Strong experience with DynamoDB, Elasticsearch and MySQL
- Solid understanding of gRPC and RESTful API design
- Experience working with event-driven architectures and distributed systems
- Deep knowledge of Go routines and channel patterns for concurrent applications
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure
- Exposure to observability and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana or CloudWatch
- An interest in AI-based code editors
- Some familiarity with front-end or mobile technologies
- Contributions to open-source projects or involvement in engineering communities
In 2025, Perkbox and Vivup came together under one name: the new and evolved Perkbox.
We joined forces to create something bigger and better - a single, unified platform built to care for, connect with, and celebrate employees in all areas of life. With more than 20 years of combined experience across public, private, SME and corporate sectors, we’re now supporting over 4 million employees across 7,500 organisations.
From access to expert mental health services to help with the cost of everyday essentials, our expanded range of benefits and wellbeing tools meets people where they are - at work and beyond.
Together, we’re redefining what employee benefits can be. And we’re just getting started.
he Interview Process
Our Interview Process Usually Involves 4 Main Stages
We’re committed to being an inclusive employer and creating a fair workplace for all. We encourage applications from candidates across all backgrounds, circumstances, ages, disabilities, ethnicities, religions or beliefs, gender identities, or sexual orientations
We're happy to offer reasonable adjustments during our hiring process. Just let us know, and we'll make it work for you. Your comfort and success matter to us!
In 2025, Perkbox and Vivup came together under one name: the new and evolved Perkbox. That move created the UK’s first fully unified employee experience platform – a single place where organisations can care for, connect with, and celebrate their people.
Today, more than 7,500 organisations – from the NHS to leading private sector businesses – trust us to support 4 million employees worldwide. We’re raising the bar for what employee benefits can be – and together,
- Application
- Short call with a member of the TA team
- 30-minute video call with Hiring Manager and one other team member
- Final Interview and task with two members of the team
We’re committed to being an inclusive employer and creating a fair workplace for all. We encourage applications from candidates across all backgrounds, circumstances, ages, disabilities, ethnicities, religions or beliefs, gender identities, or sexual orientations
We're happy to offer reasonable adjustments during our hiring process. Just let us know, and we'll make it work for you. Your comfort and success matter to us!
In 2025, Perkbox and Vivup came together under one name: the new and evolved Perkbox. That move created the UK’s first fully unified employee experience platform – a single place where organisations can care for, connect with, and celebrate their people.
Today, more than 7,500 organisations – from the NHS to leading private sector businesses – trust us to support 4 million employees worldwide. We’re raising the bar for what employee benefits can be – and together,
we’ll redefine what work feels like!