Software Engineer – Golang – Long Term Contract

Job Title: Golang Engineer, Golang Developer -Mid-Level

Location: Burgess Hill, Sussex, UK

Job Type: Contract

Length: 12 months + extensions (long term, muli-year project)

Day rate:  £260 – £270 per day (inside IR35)

Working setup: 3 days per week onsite / 2 day Remote

Talent-Relay have partnered with a global player in the financial services sector to urgently on-board an experienced Golang Engineer / Go Developer into a project team.

Successful candidate will join the team on contract until the end of 2026 with with 12-month extension highly likely. Renewed annually.

The successful Golang Engineer / Go Developer will help develop innovative solutions for the client’s customer platform and will be involved in design system solutions, building modern microservices-based applications while collaborating closely with development teams and SREs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and modify custom applications.
• Create and test resilient software, focusing on high-volume REST APIs.
• Drive migration from legacy systems to microservices architecture.
• Partner with teams across development, QA, and production support.

Required Skills:

• Solid experience with Golang, Git, REST Web Services, Jenkins, NoSQL, PostgreSQL
• Experience in application design, Agile development, and CI/CD tools.
• Experience of messaging service (ideally Kafka / RabbitMQ)
• Understanding of BDD / TDD
• Strong problem-solving, analytical skills, and a desire to learn new technologies.

Preferred:

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience with open-source contributions.