Senior Go Developer

Who are Tyk, and what do we do?

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 the retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, or media industries (to name just a few!)

If you've banked online, used an app to check the news, or perhaps even driven a connected car, API's, and by extension, Tyk, make that possible. 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. Brands using Tyk range from Lotte, Bell, T Mobile, to RBS, Capital One and Vinci. We have a varied user base hailing from every continent - even Antarctica.

Our Mission

Tyk is on a mission to connect every system in the world. We've started by building an API Management platform.

Total flexibility, default remote, radical responsibility

We offer unlimited paid holidays and remote working from anywhere in the world, for everyone, Why? Tyk was founded on the principle of offering flexibility and autonomy to our employees, we believe this allows our employees to achieve their best results. It also means we can build the best possible team, location and working hours are no barrier.

If this sounds like an environment that you believe could work for you then read on to find out more.

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. As a Senior Go Developer you will be passionate about backend development, distributed systems, and driving engineering excellence.

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.
• We have total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive. Everyone is unique after all.
• 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 everyday, strive to achieve their personal goals and who are willing to challenge the way we do things, why? - to make what we do even better!

Our values tell the story of Tyk - here's how:

• It's ok to screw up!

We've found that it's often the 'stupid' or unexpected ideas that turn out to be the successful ones - so try it, at least we can say we have!

• The only stupid idea, is the untested one!

It's in our DNA - starting a business with founders 12 hours apart, giving our gateway away for free - sure, we did that, and we'd do it again!

• Trust starts with you - make it count!

Trust is a two-way street - instill it from day one!

• Assume best intent!

We have each other's back - we're all on the same team. Think before you speak or act.

• Make things, better!

Always try to leave things better than when you found them - change is constant, inevitable and embraced! Be that change we want to see.

What's it like to work here?! check it out: /tyk. io/worklife/

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.