(senior) Backend Engineer, Marketpace

Wheely

London, United Kingdom
Base: £90,000 – £120,000; bonus/equity: employee s...
On-site
3+ years backend service experience
Go programming language proficiency
Postgresql and mongodb database knowledge
Wheely is a profitable scale-up redefining premium transportation with over 100,000 active riders and $100M in annual revenue

Job Summary

  • Wheely is a profitable scale-up redefining premium transportation with over 100,000 active riders and $100M in annual revenue.
  • The Marketplace team builds models and algorithms to balance supply and demand while optimizing pricing and matching for chauffeurs and passengers.
  • Candidates will work in a Go-focused environment using PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and AWS to build high-quality microservices with clean, maintainable code.

Matching Summary

Wheely is a profitable scale-up redefining premium transportation with over 100,000 active riders and $100M in annual revenue.

Salary

Base: £90,000 – £120,000; Bonus/Equity: Employee stock options plan; Benefits: Private medical and dental insurance; Life cover; MacBook Pro and 4k display provided

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 3+ years backend service experience
  • Go programming language proficiency
  • PostgreSQL and MongoDB database knowledge
  • RabbitMQ or Kafka message broker experience
  • AWS cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes
  • Microservices architecture implementation

Nice-to-have

  • Experience migrating from Ruby monoliths
  • TDD and DDD methodology expertise
  • gRPC and Thrift protocol familiarity
  • Terraform infrastructure as code skills
  • System design and algorithmic problem solving

Key Requirements

  • 3+ years of backend engineering experience
  • 5+ years for Senior level candidates
  • In-depth knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases

Work Rights

Not specified

Sponsorship: available

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