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Principal Go Engineer | Up to £150k | Hybrid London
Client:
Maze
Location:
London, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Views:
7
Posted:
18.04.2025
Expiry Date:
02.06.2025
Job Description:
Principal Go (Golang) Engineer | Stealth Fintech | London (Min. 4 days/week onsite in London) Up to £150k + Equity | Hybrid London
Maze is partnering with a stealth-mode startup that's rebuilding core banking from the ground up. They’re creating the world’s first open-source, AI-native "Thin Ledger"—set to replace legacy infrastructure at Tier 1 banks.
We're looking for a Principal Engineer specialising in Go to lead v1 builds, define architecture, and ship mission-critical backend systems from scratch.
What you’ll do:
1. Design & scale a fault-tolerant ledger (Golang, Kafka, CockroachDB/YugabyteDB)
2. Architect distributed, multi-region infra with five-nines reliability
3. Lead backend, DevOps, and CI/CD decision-making
4. Embed AI into engineering workflows & ops
5. Strong engineer with system engineering & system architectural experience; exceptional communicator across technical and non-technical audiences.
6. Self-motivated, problem-solving mindset; open to non-traditional backgrounds.
You should have:
1. Expert backend skill ideally in Golang, or Rust, Zic or C.
2. Deep understanding of distributed systems at scale, messaging, and concurrency
3. Experience in high-availability, high-compliance environments
4. Bonus: Fintech, Trading or Financial Services background.
5. Extensive API experience
6. Experience as a founding member (10th hire or less) of an engineering team that successfully scaled.
7. Huge ownership: build core infra from scratch.
8. Work with a high-caliber team, fast-paced and product-minded founders who have worked in some of the most recognised tech businesses in the world.
9. Help define an open-source platform from day one.
10. Clear path to tech unicorn status with fruitful equity included.
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