[Hiring] Contract Senior Golang Engineer @YLD

Role Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You’ll be proficient at problem-solving, and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’ll be an effective communicator and a team player. Furthermore, you and your team will move in a fast-paced engineering environment, achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this:

• Crafting excellent products! As a Software Engineer, you will be building new features that meet the needs of our client's customers;
• Working closely with your team, regularly collaborating on engineering initiatives, to continually push yourselves to be better;
• Learning, growing, and mentoring the engineering team to accelerate their career growth and encourage them to progress;
• Being responsible for the production operation and monitoring of products in line with SLAs;
• Driving good practices within your team;
• Participating in regular show and tells, promoting your work to both your department and the wider company.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Go (language-agnostic mindset preferred);
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms — currently operating across multi-cloud;
• Proven experience building custom SaaS applications and robust APIs;
• Experience developing or integrating decentralised systems, data infrastructure, or distributed technologies;
• Deep understanding of modern deployment pipelines, including Docker, containers, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Flux;
• Comfortable leveraging AI tools to improve code quality, accelerate delivery, and enhance workflows;
• Familiarity with Red Panda and multi-cloud deployment environments is a plus.

Requirements

• Strategic problem-solver who balances innovation with pragmatic technical choices;
• Thrives in dynamic production environments, managing expectations with clients and peers alike;
• Strong customer focus and commitment to quality;
• A true ambassador of YLD’s brand, upholding excellence and collaboration;
• Excellent communication skills — able to explain complex ideas clearly and effectively;
• Passionate about continuous learning, especially in applying AI to software development.

Benefits

• The chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people and to develop and grow your skills in a fast-moving business.

Company Description

Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract, inspire, develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London, Lisbon, Porto.