Senior Software Engineer (GO)
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Salary
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£54,700
Going rate
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This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2134 (100% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £54,700, and CV-LIBRARY LTD is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
New graduate or PhD holder? Pick one of the lower rates.
What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2134 Programmers and software development professionals Most likely code | £38,300 | £43,700 | £49,200 | £54,700 |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
At CV-Library, we have a simple vision: to help the world to work and we are looking for exceptional and talented people to help us realise this vision in both UK and overseas markets.
We are in a period of accelerated growth, following a year of key strategic acquisitions and significant investment across all parts of the business from Tech and Data to People and HR, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us or a better place to grow your career!
The Role
We are looking for a Senior Go Engineer to join our team and help build high-quality, scalable backend services and APIs. This role is perfect for someone with hands-on experience in Go who is ready to take ownership of features end to end, contribute to technical decisions and work on impactful projects. If you're passionate about writing clean, performant code and working with modern cloud-native technologies like AWS, Docker and Kubernetes within a strong engineering team, we'd love to hear from you!
What your day will look like:
- Design and develop high-performing backend services and APIs using Go, ensuring reliability, scalability and consistency across distributed systems
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs and gRPC services with clear contracts, versioning discipline and robust error handling
- Integrate AWS services such as DynamoDB, Lambda, S3 and Cognito to deliver scalable and secure backend solutions
- Contribute to architectural discussions and technical decision-making across the backend stack, helping shape patterns that support long-term maintainability
- Build, containerise and deploy services Docker and Kubernetes, working with CI/CD pipelines to keep releases fast, safe and repeatable
- Write and maintain automated tests, including unit, integration and end-to-end tests, to ensure code quality, reliability and confidence in every release
- Monitor and optimise service performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks in latency, throughput, concurrency and resource usage
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Where this offer sits in the market
Programmers and software development professionals (SOC 2134) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~399k in sample- Middle half £42,536–76,752
- Median £56,784
- Going rate £54,700
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £38,300–49,200
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Does this job guarantee visa sponsorship?
Not necessarily. CV-LIBRARY LTD holds a sponsor licence, but sponsorship for a specific hire is always the employer's decision. Be upfront in your application that you'll require it.
What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2134 going rate of £54,700. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.