Senior Go Developer

The Tyk API Management platform is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services. Whether internal, external, public or highly encrypted systems, Tyk helps businesses drive value across various industries including retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, and media. Founded in 2015 with offices in London – UK, London – Ontario, Atlanta, and Singapore, we have many thousands of users of our B2B platform across the globe.

Our Mission

Tyk is on a mission to connect every system in the world by building an API Management platform. We offer unlimited paid holidays and remote working from anywhere in the world for everyone, believing this allows our employees to achieve their best results.

The role:

As a Senior Go Developer at Tyk, you will play a key role in designing and building compelling solutions for our Dashboard and API Gateway products. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, efficient solutions while championing continuous improvement across our software engineering lifecycle.

Here’s what you’ll be responsible for:

• Technical Leadership
  • Lead solution design for medium and high-complexity problems, adhering to established design principles.
  • Design distributed systems with security-first principles, ensuring no security defects or production leakage.
  • Contribute to the direction of API Gateway architecture and dashboard API functionality.
  • Build and extend API Gateway capabilities, including complex traffic routing, security, rate limiting, mTLS, authentication, and authorisation.
• Engineering Excellence
  • Write high-quality code to meet complex tasks and user stories.
  • Implement best practice coding principles such as reusable components and scalable code.
  • Troubleshoot and fix high-complexity bugs with quality pull requests that pass tests.
  • Ensure adherence to software engineering processes to avoid technical debt.
  • Champion continuous improvement in engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, automation).
  • Practice Test-Driven Development (TDD) to ensure robust, well-tested code.
• Mentorship & Team Leadership
  • Teach and mentor junior engineers on best practices, SOLID principles, and distributed systems design.
  • Lead code reviews, providing quality feedback before approval.
  • Offer constructive suggestions and support for your colleagues when appropriate.
  • Collaborate with the team to propose and implement beneficial changes to engineering processes.
• Quality & Documentation
  • Prioritise documentation-first development, ensuring documentation is written before code and kept current.
  • Meet acceptance criteria for high-complexity tasks before PR merges.
  • Fully adhere to Scrum processes and Definition of Done.
  • Drive a culture of writing automated tests for every new feature and bug fix.
  • Advocate for and demonstrate TDD practices in daily development work.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Strong backend engineering experience in Go.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems design.
• Familiarity with Redis and MongoDB.
• Experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, code reviews, design documentation).
• Proficiency in applying SOLID principles and Test-Driven Development methodologies.
• Experience with cloud products, Kubernetes, or other orchestration tools.
• API management experience.
• Open-source contributions.
• Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills.
• Passion for continuous improvement in the software delivery lifecycle.
• Experience influencing product strategies through technical knowledge.
• Deep understanding of DevOps best practices.
• Security-first software development mindset.
• Comfort with AI technologies and automation.

Here’s why you should join us:

• Everyone has unlimited paid holiday.
• Total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive.
• Employee share scheme.
• Generous maternity and paternity leave.
• Company retreats.

We all share the same vision – we value authenticity, respect, responsibility, independence, honesty, diversity and inclusion, and most importantly treating others how you wish to be treated. We look for like-minded people who bring their personalities to work every day, strive to achieve their personal goals, and who are willing to challenge the way we do things to make what we do even better!

Tyk is an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.