Senior Backend Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-28 → 2026-09-27

Core

Building and optimizing core data APIs and cloud infrastructure that ingest over 100 million events monthly to power consumer and B2B data products.

Role type

Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

Builds

Data APIs, data feeds for commercial partners, and mobile app endpoints

Domain

Data infrastructure / Open data platform

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Go, RESTful API design, SQL, event-driven systems, cloud-native architecture, Docker, Kubernetes, Swagger/OpenAPI documentation

Preferred skills

gRPC, automated testing, infrastructure monitoring and alerting, CI/CD pipelines

Technologies

Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, GCP, GitHub, Jira, Slack

Responsibilities

Extending and optimizing data ingestion APIs, creating new data feeds for partners, building new API endpoints for mobile apps, upgrading cloud infrastructure, writing automated tests, ensuring infrastructure stability via monitoring

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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About Gener8

Since its launch in 2018, Gener8 has been at the forefront of the “open data” movement: the belief that people should be able to control and be rewarded from their own data. Gener8’s consumer products include IOS and Android apps, a web browser and a browser extension. Our products enable people to transparently share their data with Gener8, whilst preserving their privacy, and to earn rewards in return for doing this. Today we’re operating in the UK & USA and will be launching in multiple new countries in early 2026. On the B2B side, the data products that Gener8 creates enables businesses to