Senior Fullstack Engineer (Go/React)
Xdesign
<div class="styles--2BkR3" data-ui="job-description"> <p><strong>Working at CreateFuture</strong><br><br><a href="https://createfuture.com/" target="_blank">CreateFuture</a> is an&nbsp;<strong>AI-native consulting partner&nbsp;</strong>where people do work that matters and are supported to do it well. We work alongside organisations such as PayPal, adidas, NatWest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, building digital products and services that make a difference&nbsp; while always putting people first.</p> <p>We’re a team of creators. We write code, shape delivery, build go-to-market strategies, develop AI solutions and create the practices that support our people. We work side by side with our clients, challenging what’s not working and helping them to build the future. Our commitment to craft, quality, and culture has helped us scale to over 600 people in just a few years.<br><br>CreateFuture is a <a href="https://www.greatplacetowork.co.uk/certified-company/1572759" target="_blank">Great Place to Work-Certified™ company </a>and has won Best Workplaces UK multiple years in a row.</p> <div class="styles--2BkR3" data-ui="job-description"> <div>We're looking for an experienced Senior Fullstack Engineer who is passionate about building scalable, high-quality software and helping teams grow. This is more than a hands-on engineering role—you'll influence technical direction, mentor other engineers, drive architectural decisions, and help us embed AI and automation into the way we deliver value for our clients.<br>You'll thrive here if you enjoy solving complex problems, challenging assumptions, collaborating openly, and taking pride in delivering software that makes a real business impact.<br><br><strong>What You'll Do</strong><br><br>As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, you will:</div> <ul> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Design, build and maintain scalable, secure and resilient backend systems using Go, alongside rich, responsive frontends built with React.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Lead technical design and architectural discussions, ensuring solutions are maintainable, performant and aligned with best practices across the stack.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Develop and evolve RESTful and gRPC APIs with a focus on security, versioning, performance and reliability.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Build intuitive, high-performance user interfaces in React that integrate seamlessly with backend services.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Champion engineering excellence through clean code, automated testing, documentation and code reviews.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Drive delivery across multiple initiatives while balancing speed, quality and commercial value.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Mentor engineers through coaching, pairing and constructive feedback, helping raise capability across the team.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve problems together and deliver outstanding outcomes for clients.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Research and evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks and AI capabilities that improve how we build software.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Promote automation wherever possible, removing repetitive work so teams can focus on solving meaningful problems.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Contribute to a culture of continuous learning, innovation and technical excellence</li> </ul> <div><br><strong>What You'll Bring</strong><br> <p class="text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold" data-sourcepos="30:1-30:24;2798-2821">Technical Expertise</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="31:1-31:47;2822-2868">You'll have strong commercial experience with:</p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3" data-sourcepos="32:1-49:52;2869-3723"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Go, including interfaces, error handling, generics and the standard library</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Go concurrency patterns, including goroutines, channels and the context package</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">React, including modern hooks-based development and state management</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">TypeScript for building robust, type-safe frontends</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Go web frameworks and routers such as net/http, Gin, Echo or Chi</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Data access in Go using tools such as database/sql, sqlx, sqlc or GORM</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Authentication and authorisation including OAuth2, OIDC and JWT</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">REST API design and implementation, with exposure to gRPC and Protocol Buffers</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Microservices and distributed system design</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">SQL databases with strong query optimisation skills</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">NoSQL databases</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Docker and containerised application development</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Cloud platforms, AWS</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI or GitHub Actions</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Git and modern software development workflows</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Observability tooling including logging, metrics and distributed tracing (e.g. OpenTelemetry, Prometheus)</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Comprehensive testing across unit, integration and functional layers, including Go's built-in testing tooling and frontend testing frameworks such as Jest or React Testing Library</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Go modules and dependency management</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Go performance fundamentals, including profiling with pprof, memory management and garbage collection behaviou</li> </ul> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="58:1-58:20;3854-3873">You'll demonstrate:</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="60:1-60:41;3875-3915"><strong>Technical Excellence &amp; Craft Mastery</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3" data-sourcepos="61:1-63:80;3916-4144"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="61:1-61:88;3916-4003">Write clean, maintainable and highly optimised code across both backend and frontend.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="62:1-62:61;4004-4064">Set high standards for quality, testing and documentation.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="63:1-63:80;4065-4144">Coach others in engineering best practices and modern development techniques.</li> </ul> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="65:1-65:29;4146-4174"><strong>Architectural Leadership</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3" data-sourcepos="66:1-68:69;4175-4374"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="66:1-66:49;4175-4223">Design scalable, resilient and secure systems.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="67:1-67:82;4224-4305">Make thoughtful architectural decisions that support long-term maintainability.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="68:1-68:69;4306-4374">Evaluate new technologies and guide adoption where they add value.</li> </ul> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="70:1-70:24;4376-4399"><strong>Commercial Delivery</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3" data-sourcepos="71:1-73:58;4400-4592"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="71:1-71:49;4400-4448">Lead projects from discovery through delivery.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="72:1-72:86;4449-4534">Understand client challenges and translate them into practical technical solutions.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="73:1-73:58;4535-4592">Deliver outcomes that create measurable business value.</li> </ul> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="75:1-75:31;4594-4624"><strong>Leadership &amp; Collaboration</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3" data-sourcepos="76:1-79:102;4625-4931"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="76:1-76:79;4625-4703">Lead engineering ceremonies and facilitate productive technical discussions.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="77:1-77:48;4704-4751">Mentor and develop engineers across the team.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="78:1-78:78;4752-4829">Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="79:1-79:102;4830-4931">Foster an environment where knowledge sharing and continuous improvement are part of everyday work.</li> </ul> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="81:1-81:20;4933-4952"><strong>AI &amp; Innovation</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3" data-sourcepos="82:1-84:55;4953-5150"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="82:1-82:82;4953-5034">Explore and implement AI-driven approaches that improve engineering efficiency.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="83:1-83:61;5035-5095">Champion responsible adoption of AI across delivery teams.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="84:1-84:55;5096-5150">Help shape our engineering practices for the future.</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div><div class="content-conclusion"><h3 id="What-we’ll-offer-you:" data-renderer-start-pos="8044"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">What we’ll offer you:</strong></h3> <p>We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You’ll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do.<br><br>We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed.</p> <p>We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.</p> <h3><strong>Our hiring process</strong></h3> <p>We try to keep our hiring process clear, fair and respectful of your time. We aim to get back to everyone who applies and we will be upfront about where you are in the process.</p> <p>It usually looks like this:</p> <ul> <li>Call with our Talent Acquisition Team&nbsp;</li> <li>Role specific capability interview&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>Depending on the role, we might also ask you to do a short presentation, a practical or technical task or have a values focused conversation. We will explain what is involved before anything happens.</p> <h3><strong>Inclusion at CreateFuture&nbsp;</strong></h3> <p>We believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to be themselves and do their best work.</p> <p>If you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. We will do what we can to help.</p> <p>We look forward to your application!</p></div><p>Find <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.co.uk">Jobs in United Kingdom</a> on Arbeitnow</a>