Lead Full Stack Engineer (Golang Focus)
Pertemps London
Location: Hybrid – 2 days per week in Central London
A fast-growing, global digital platform is seeking a Senior / Lead Full Stack Engineer with deep expertise in Golang to help scale and evolve a high-traffic marketplace product operating across multiple international markets.
This organisation delivers community-driven platforms connecting millions of users each month and is entering an exciting phase of growth, innovation, and expansion into new regions. The engineering team embraces modern practices including AI-enabled development and spec-driven engineering.
The Role
This is a hands-on full stack engineering position with a strong backend bias toward Golang, responsible for building scalable, high-performance systems that power a global user base.
The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, developing, and optimising both backend services and frontend interfaces, working closely with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver impactful features and improvements.
Key ResponsibilitiesSoftware Engineering
- Design, build, and deploy scalable, high-quality applications across the full stack
- Architect and develop robust backend services using Golang (Go)
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices
- Contribute to modern, responsive frontend applications using Vue.js/Nuxt.js
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following best practices
- Work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and engineers
- Translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering standards
- Optimise applications for speed, scalability, and reliability
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across systems
- Ensure systems are resilient under high traffic and large-scale usage
- Implement and maintain automated testing across the stack
- Debug and resolve complex technical issues
- Ensure high levels of system stability and user experience
- Stay current with emerging technologies and development approaches
- Contribute to evolving engineering processes, tooling, and practices
- Support adoption of AI-assisted and spec-driven development workflows
- Proven experience as a Senior or Lead Full Stack Engineer
- Strong commercial experience with Golang (Go) – essential and a primary focus
- Experience with spec-driven or agentic development approaches
- Advanced frontend expertise with Vue.js and Nuxt.js
- Strong JavaScript (ES6+), HTML, and CSS skills
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and microservices
- Familiarity with gRPC for service-to-service communication
- Solid experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases
- Proficiency with Git and modern development workflows
- Experience with containerisation and deployment tools
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
- Opportunity to work on a high-scale, international platform
- Exposure to modern engineering practices including AI-driven development
- Collaborative, forward-thinking engineering environment
- Hybrid working model with a central London office location
This role is best suited to an engineer who is:
- Deeply experienced in Golang backend development
- Passionate about building scalable, production-grade systems
- Comfortable working across the full stack where needed
- Interested in modern engineering practices and continuous improvement
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