Go Developer

Salary: £50,000 - 50,000 per year

Requirements

• Strong, production-grade Go experience, including concurrency, back-pressure, profiling, and clean, well-tested code
• Experience building distributed or event-driven systems at scale using a message broker such as NATS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar
• Solid PostgreSQL experience, with an ability to reason about query cost and schema trade-offs
• Comfortable operating in Kubernetes and working with Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code across AWS and/or Azure
• Confident reading and implementing binary or wire protocols, including bytes, endianness, checksums, and IoT hardware integration
• Strong debugging instincts for concurrency and distributed systems issues such as races, deadlocks, split-brain, and back-pressure
• Strong accountability, ownership, attention to detail, and a commitment to high standards of work
• Ability to work proactively, handle uncertainty, and manage work without close supervision
• Ability to work autonomously and remotely where required, and as part of a team including overseas colleagues
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong team player who values continuous learning and is happy to mentor and support others
• Ability to apply structured thinking and simplify complex problems
• Experience with actor-model or supervision-tree systems such as Ergo, Erlang/OTP, Akka, or similar is highly advantageous
• Experience with IoT, GNSS, GPS, RTK telemetry, or geospatial platforms is highly advantageous
• Understanding of electronics design, radio, and telecommunications is highly advantageous
• Right to work in the UK is required; sponsorship is not available

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy distributed Go services for our device platform
• Build real-time ingest, geospatial processing, on-device geofencing, time-series persistence, and a real-time web UI
• Engineer reliable systems capable of supporting 20,000 to 30,000 concurrent devices
• Build safety-relevant, low-latency delivery paths where correctness is critical
• Parse and generate binary device protocols and integrate IoT hardware over UDP and TCP
• Provide technical leadership within an agile squad
• Help the team devise elegant solutions to strategic business and technical challenges
• Maximise quality and return on investment through effective technical decisions
• Act as a subject matter expert for Go, distributed systems, NATS/JetStream, and our AWS/Azure cloud and Kubernetes environments

Technologies

• AI
• AWS
• Akka
• Azure
• Cloud
• Erlang
• Hardware
• IoT
• Support
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• NATS
• PostgreSQL
• RabbitMQ
• Terraform
• Web
• UX UI Design
• Backbone
• Backend
• CI/CD
• DevOps
• GitHub
• Security
• microservices

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We are Onwave, a fast-growing digital transformation partner working across the enterprise infrastructure, construction, and engineering sectors in the UK and overseas. Our business focuses on networking, software, and data solutions for blue-chip customers, giving successful candidates opportunities to grow their knowledge and develop their skills in an exciting environment. You will join a supportive, experienced team working on innovative software, with exposure to AI, automation, and modern cloud technologies. We offer flexible working options, competitive compensation, career growth opportunities, and meaningful infrastructure and safety-focused projects. Our benefits include casual dress, a company pension, a cycle to work scheme, employee discount, free parking, on-site parking, and private medical insurance. The role is hybrid remote in West Malling, ME19 4AB.

last updated 32 week of 2026