(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 shared tooling and manages migrations away from a Ruby monolith while evolving infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes.
  • Candidates will write high-quality Go code to implement new microservices and ensure 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, life cover, 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 and Kubernetes infrastructure management

Nice-to-have

  • Experience with Ruby monolith migration
  • TDD and DDD methodology application
  • gRPC and Thrift protocol familiarity
  • Clean maintainable code craftsmanship
  • Collaboration with data scientists

Key Requirements

  • 3+ years of backend engineering experience
  • 5+ years for senior level positions
  • Strong engineering fundamentals in scalable services

Work Rights

Not specified

Sponsorship: available

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