(senior) Backend Engineer, Platform

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 across Europe, the US, and the Middle East with over $100M in annual revenue

Job Summary

  • Wheely is a profitable scale-up redefining premium transportation across Europe, the US, and the Middle East with over $100M in annual revenue.
  • The Platform team builds the foundation for the engineering organization by creating shared tooling and migrating from a Ruby monolith to microservices.
  • Candidates will write high-quality performant code primarily in Go while ensuring systems remain responsive under heavy load.

Matching Summary

Wheely is a profitable scale-up redefining premium transportation across Europe, the US, and the Middle East with over $100M in annual revenue.

Salary

Base: £90,000 – £120,000; Bonus/Equity: Employee stock options plan; Benefits: Private medical/dental insurance, MacBook Pro, relocation support

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 3+ years backend service experience
  • Go programming language proficiency
  • PostgreSQL and MongoDB database knowledge
  • RabbitMQ message broker experience
  • AWS cloud infrastructure management
  • Kubernetes container orchestration

Nice-to-have

  • Ruby monolith migration experience
  • TDD and DDD methodology application
  • System design interview performance
  • Clean maintainable code practices
  • High load latency optimization skills

Key Requirements

  • 3+ years building scalable backend services
  • 5+ years for senior level candidates
  • In-depth knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases
  • Experience with message brokers like RabbitMQ or Kafka

Work Rights

Not specified

Sponsorship: available

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