Golang Engineer – Infrastructure Automation | Financial Services

We’re hiring several Golang engineers at mid/senior and principal level, to help accelerate automation across a large-scale, physical infrastructure platform. This is an opportunity to contribute to a cutting-edge, high-performance tech environment that operates with startup-style agility and the stability of a well-established organisation in the hedge-fund space. 

You’ll be part of a high-calibre engineering team known for technical excellence, autonomy, and fast iteration cycles. Expect real ownership, complex systems, and the chance to ship meaningful code from day one.

Essential functions

• Build and expand Golang-based workflows for provisioning bare-metal servers at scale.
• Use the OpenStack Ironic Golang SDK to manage OS image deployments to physical machines.
• Write clean, testable, production-ready Go code that integrates into a wider automation stack.
• Solve deep systems challenges across hardware, networking, and orchestration layers.
• Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams while working with high independence.

Qualifications

• Have expert-level proficiency in Golang, especially in systems or infrastructure-focused environments.
• Can quickly get up to speed with unfamiliar codebases and start contributing with minimal hand-holding.
• Have strong knowledge of APIs, concurrency, and infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Communicate clearly and confidently across tech and non-tech stakeholders.

Would be a plus

• OpenStack Ironic or other provisioning platforms.
• Terraform, Vault, Ansible, or similar tooling.
• CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred).
• Temporal or Cadence for orchestrating workflows.

We offer

This role offers a rare combination of technical challenge, autonomy, and impact—plus access to excellent perks in a modern central London office (including free daily lunch, stocked snacks and drinks, and an on-site gym). The team is lean, sharp, and moves fast. This is also a fantastic opportunity to break into financial services, with no prior experience needed. You’ll gain invaluable hedge-fund domain expertise and will have the chance to interact and collaborate with business users often. 

We’re looking for problem-solvers, self-starters, and engineers who want their code to matter. If that’s you, we’d love to speak.

Benefits 

• 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), increasing with length of service
• Industry-leading Aviva Pension Scheme, with matched pension contributions up to 10% 
• Life assurance - 2 x annual salary 
• The best level of BUPA private healthcare cover available, covering preexisting conditions and the option to add a spouse and children for free 
• State-of-the-art work equipment upon starting to create your perfect WFH set-up
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave 
• Unlimited training and learning budget 
• Fantastic team and office culture, with premium expensed company and team-building events, as well as the chance to participate in (or even organise yourself!) monthly fully expensed social events

Please note: This role is based in central London, with a requirement to work in the office 3 days per week. Candidates must have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship and live within a commutable distance to London.

About us

Grid Dynamics (NASDAQ: GDYN) is a leading provider of technology consulting, platform and product engineering, AI, and advanced analytics services. Fusing technical vision with business acumen, we solve the most pressing technical challenges and enable positive business outcomes for enterprise companies undergoing business transformation. A key differentiator for Grid Dynamics is our 8 years of experience and leadership in enterprise AI, supported by profound expertise and ongoing investment in data, analytics, cloud & DevOps, application modernization and customer experience. Founded in 2006, Grid Dynamics is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices across the Americas, Europe, and India.