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AA-7108 Staff Recently added

Software Engineer (Game Operations)

United Kingdom
9 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Engineered Go and gRPC microservices with Kafka-backed distributed pipelines supporting live workloads of up to 100,000 concurrent users. Refactored C# monoliths into cloud-native services across AWS, GCP, and Azure, with emphasis on reliability and observability.

  • RabbitMQ event processing
  • Redis-backed high-frequency data flows
  • Terraform Kubernetes infrastructure
  • Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and Jaeger monitoring
GoGo FiberGo GingRPCC#C/C++
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JG-6289 Lead Recently added

Senior Backend Engineer (Squad Technical Lead)

United Kingdom
10 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Designed distributed systems with a focus on event-driven architectures, enabling real-time data processing and integration across multiple services. Led backend API development, ensuring robust and scalable service layer architectures. Spearheaded technical leadership initiatives, fostering code quality through rigorous code reviews.

  • Developed scalable microservices for high-traffic platforms
  • Architected event sourcing solutions for data consistency
  • Integrated third-party APIs for enhanced system capabilities
Distributed systems designEvent-driven architectureBackend API developmentService layer architectureTechnical leadershipCode review
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Lead Backend Developer

United Kingdom
7 years
Remote
Employee
Experienced software engineer with strong background in distributed systems and cloud-native architecture. Proven track record delivering production systems at scale. Skilled in designing fault-tolerant services, optimising CI/CD pipelines, and mentoring junior developers across cross-functional teams.
  • Led migration of monolithic system to microservices architecture
  • Built high-throughput data pipeline processing 1M+ events per second
  • Designed and implemented real-time monitoring and alerting platform
GoGinKafkaDockerKubernetesTerraformRedisPostgreSQL
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JQ-1381 Lead

Senior Golang Backend Engineer

United Kingdom
10 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Architected microservices for distributed systems, ensuring high availability with AWS. Engineered event-driven architectures utilizing Kafka for real-time data processing.

  • Optimized PostgreSQL queries for large-scale data environments
  • Led migration from monolithic to microservices architecture
  • Implemented robust logging and monitoring solutions
GolangMicroservices ArchitectureDistributed SystemsKafkaPostgreSQLAWS
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AT-8435 Lead

Staff Software Engineer

United Kingdom
18 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Helped establish a greenfield Go microservices platform by defining foundational services, data models, reusable packages, and architectural conventions. Built cloud-native backend components using gRPC, event-driven messaging, PostgreSQL optimization, and AWS-managed services.

  • Implemented GraphQL APIs alongside REST interfaces
  • Profiled Go services with pprof and Datadog APM
  • Built GitOps delivery on EKS and Kubernetes
  • Applied DynamoDB and Redis for low-latency access
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ZZ-1875 Lead

Senior Software Engineer (Go)

United Kingdom
24 years
Remote
Employee

Delivered data-driven backend systems, APIs, microservices, and distributed applications across financial, industrial, research, and digital-product environments. Recent Go work includes production backend services, while earlier projects used Node.js, Python, Ruby, React, and Angular for data-intensive web platforms.

  • Applied certified software architecture practices
  • Built solutions with open-source components
  • Developed React and Angular frontends
  • Worked across 2000s-era backend systems
GoJavaScriptTypeScriptNode.jsPythonRuby
Available in 3+ months £95k-110k/yr
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SJ-1152 Senior

Software Engineer (Go / Rust)

United Kingdom
7 years
Flexible

Built Go and Rust services for live AI sign-language video, covering SRT and RTMP ingest through low-latency HLS and DASH delivery on AWS and Kubernetes. Implemented reconnectable ingest sessions, PCM audio extraction, AWS MediaLive relays, CMAF fragmented MP4, and synchronized manifests.

  • Picture-in-picture live composition
  • FFmpeg-based media processing
  • CloudFront video distribution
  • Terraform-managed streaming infrastructure
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SD-6765 Senior

Senior Software Engineer

United Kingdom
8 years

Expert in building enterprise-level applications using Golang and Java, with a focus on object-oriented design principles. Developed backend systems and APIs for large-scale transactional systems. Integrated modern front-end frameworks like React and Angular for seamless user interfaces.

  • Designed fault-tolerant systems with Spring Boot
  • Implemented caching strategies for improved application performance
  • Developed test-driven development practices for software reliability
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LK-3474 Lead

Software Engineer

United Kingdom
10 years
Remote
Employee

Re-architected an electric-vehicle charging platform by migrating 11 inter-service integrations from GraphQL to typed gRPC communication. Built fintech platform components for a regulated regional launch, while separately migrating analytical workloads from BigQuery toward PostgreSQL-backed microservices and delivering internal identity management.

  • Developed services with Kubernetes and Docker
  • Worked across Scala-to-Python service migration
  • Built GraphQL APIs for platform operations
  • Implemented payment microservices for card products
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SK-6222 Senior

Senior Software Engineer

United Kingdom
7 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Developed scalable backend architectures integrating machine learning models for predictive analytics. Spearheaded Web3 development initiatives focusing on decentralized applications and blockchain technology.

  • Optimized backend systems for high-load environments
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines for rapid deployment
  • Engineered systems programming solutions for performance-critical applications
GooglingBackend DevelopmentDevOpsMachine LearningSystems ProgrammingWeb3 Development
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SU-9065 Principal

Senior Software Engineer

United Kingdom
21 years
Flexible
Employee

Specialized in distributed systems design, delivering fault-tolerant architectures with Golang. Developed high-performance microservices frameworks, optimizing RESTful communications across services. Created scalable, HTTP-based services for enterprise-level applications.

  • Enhanced Java applications with advanced concurrency models
  • Implemented caching strategies to boost system throughput
  • Developed custom load balancers for distributed environments
GolangJavaDistributed SystemsMicroservicesRESTHTTP
Available in 1 month £110k-120k/yr
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JD-9286 Lead

Senior Backend Software Engineer

United Kingdom
19 years

Led the development of enterprise-grade financial systems utilizing .NET Framework and Entity Framework, focusing on high-throughput transaction processing. Designed and implemented desktop applications with complex UI interactions using Winforms and WPF, optimizing for performance and scalability.

  • Architected dependency injection solutions with Castle Windsor and Ninject
  • Integrated legacy systems with modern web services for seamless data exchange
  • Enhanced performance of data access layers in large-scale applications
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SW-4550 Lead

Senior Software Engineer Contractor

United Kingdom
10 years
Remote
Freelancer

Built high-throughput Go services for financial, payment, and social-platform workloads on GCP. Developed real-time abuse detection using Kafka, Go, and Python, plus vector-based photo similarity search on AlloyDB for trust-and-safety moderation.

  • Used Bigtable for low-latency key-value access
  • Deployed infrastructure through Terraform-managed GCP resources
  • Implemented analytics pipelines with BigQuery and dbt
  • Designed reliability practices for Cloud Run services
GoC#BashPythonPHPGCP
Available in 2 weeks $120k-180k/yr
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JD-1389 Senior

Senior Software Engineer

United Kingdom
7 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Built concurrent Go services using goroutines, channels, gRPC, protocol buffers, and NATS for event-driven backend architectures. Implemented a zero-downtime ASP/MSSQL-to-Node.js/PostgreSQL migration for a platform serving more than 500,000 users, including a Go record-transformation service.

  • Debugged race conditions with Go testing tools
  • Implemented event transport with RabbitMQ and Kafka
  • Applied profiling and performance tuning to services
  • Secured APIs with JWT, OAuth2, RBAC, and TLS
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GB-7400 Lead

Lead Software Engineer

United Kingdom
15 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Designed Go services for an EV-charging platform covering authorization, billing, charging analytics, cost calculation, and financial reconciliation. Applied CQRS, transactional outbox, and event sourcing to scale transaction processing tenfold while maintaining 99.99% availability.

  • Built AWS infrastructure with Terraform and Docker
  • Delivered Java distributed systems for fintech workloads
  • Implemented GitHub Actions deployment pipelines
  • Architected public-sector and energy cloud platforms
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Available in 1 month $110k-125k/yr
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