Senior Golang Engineer Europe

Location: UK/Europe Remote

Department: Engineering

Contract role. We’re always keen to connect with talented individuals who are interested in becoming part of our team. By submitting a speculative application, you’ll be considered for future opportunities as they arise. This is your chance to introduce yourself, showcase your experience, and tell us how you could contribute to our organisation when the right role becomes available.

About YLD:
Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract, inspire, develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy;

we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London, Lisbon, Porto.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. You’ll be curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You’ll be proficient at problem-solving, and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’ll be an effective communicator and a team player. You and your team will operate in a fast-paced engineering environment, delivering outstanding results and exciting projects.

You as a YLD Software Engineering Consultant is a highly-skilled developer who exemplifies the highest standard in software engineering and enjoys sharing knowledge with others. You’ll be a senior Go engineer who translates problems into technology-powered solutions. You’ll build and deliver software across interesting projects in terms of product and methodology. We work in an Agile environment (Scrum) with a test-first mindset.

We are advocates of pair programming and nothing is released without a code review. You have a real passion for problem-solving, you are an active learner and enjoy collaborating with others.

• Crafting excellent products: build new features that meet client needs.
• Collaborate with your team on engineering initiatives to continually improve.
• Learn, grow, and mentor the engineering team to accelerate career growth.
• Be responsible for the production operation and monitoring of products in line with SLAs.
• Drive good practices within your team.
• Participate in regular show-and-tell sessions, promoting your work within the department and the wider company.

• Strong experience with Go; a language-agnostic mindset is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms.
• Proven experience building custom SaaS applications and robust APIs.
• Experience developing or integrating decentralised systems, data infrastructure, or distributed technologies.
• Deep understanding of modern deployment pipelines, including Docker, containers, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Flux.
• Comfortable leveraging AI tools to improve code quality, accelerate delivery, and enhance workflows.
• Familiarity with Red Panda and multi-cloud deployment environments is a plus.

• Strategic problem-solver who balances innovation with pragmatic technical choices.
• Thrives in dynamic production environments, managing expectations with clients and peers alike.
• Strong customer focus and commitment to quality.
• A true ambassador of YLD’s brand, upholding excellence and collaboration.
• Excellent communication skills—able to explain complex ideas clearly and effectively.
• Passionate about continuous learning, especially in applying AI to software development.

The chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people and to develop and grow your skills in a fast-moving business.

Please submit your application through the link and fill out the questions so that we can understand what you are looking for and how best to proceed with your application. We will keep your details on file in line with GDPR and will contact you should a suitable opportunity arise. Due to the volume of applications, only candidates selected for relevant roles will be contacted.

• Growing every day
• Including everyone
• Relationships built on honesty and ethics
• Inspiring solutions
• Winning together

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We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We don’t discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability status. We also believe in work-life balance and offer flexible working around our core hours.