Backend Engineer (Go) | Prediction Markets | Remote UK
Chance to join a scaling tech company with a fully remote engineering team and a very exciting runway of work lined up...
VERY competitive base + bonus + stock
Hiring at various levels
What they're building
* A real-money prediction and trading platform
* 0→1 product with a 100 million user fanbase already behind it
* Think Polymarket, but built for mainstream fans at serious scale
The stack
* Go
* PostgreSQL — complex query optimisation, indexing, schema design
* Kafka / event-driven architecture
* AWS, CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, SLOs
What they actually want
* Strong backend engineer who thinks in distributed systems — correctness and reliability matter here
* AI-native (Claude, Cursor, Codex, Copilot in your daily workflow, not just experimented with)
* Someone who takes data integrity seriously
* Cross-functional communicator
* Startup mentality (you've operated in small teams, figured things out, and thrived)
The culture
* Fully AI-native team (90%+ of code written by agents)
* Small, sharp teams
* Fast-moving, adult environment (high trust, high output)
* Ground floor opportunity (you're helping define the product and the way of working)
The perks
* Very competitive base + bonus + equity
* Top-tier private healthcare + dental
* Life assurance + 6% matched pension
* Fully remote (UK based)
* First few days onboarding in New York City
* Tons of autonomy