Location: Remote (with occasional on-site in Cirencester, 2–4 days per month)
Contract: Outside IR35 | Until March 2026
Rate: £500 - £650 per day
Clearance: Active BPSS required (SC will be arranged once successful)
We are seeking an experienced Senior Back End Developer (Go) to join a small, dynamic data and DevOps team. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the creation of a new era – enabling infrastructure-as-code practices, and making it fast and simple to deploy open-source software across multiple public clouds and Raspberry Pi clusters.
What you’ll be doing:
- Collaborating with the Product Owner to deliver key outcomes and shape innovative solutions.
- Contributing to product backlog delivery, aligned with agile sprint priorities.
- Participating in stand-ups, retrospectives, and show-and-tells with users and stakeholders.
- Sharing knowledge and mentoring team members to help build long-term in-house capability.
- Embracing DevOps culture, infrastructure-as-code, and continuous improvement.
Skills & Experience required:
- Strong experience as a senior Go developer.
- JSON Schema expertise.
- Proficiency with Test Driven Development and testing practices.
- Solid knowledge of Domain Driven Design techniques (Crows Foot, ERD syntaxes).
- Hands-on Unix/Linux systems programming and sysadmin experience.
- Exposure to multiple other programming languages.
Desirable (nice to have):
- Experience with programming language design or type system design.
- Interface design experience (GUI or CLI).
Key qualities we’re looking for:
- A true team player who thrives in an agile DevOps culture.
- Strong technical fit, with adaptability across languages and systems.
- Comfortable working in R&D environments with evolving requirements.
