J&T Recruitment has been exclusively retained by a high-growth FinTech company in Bristol to appoint a Principal Software Engineer to lead the development of highly scalable microservices powering next-generation financial products.
Salary
£115,000 – £165,000 base + bonus + equity
Responsibilities
* Design and build scalable microservices using Go
* Lead architectural decisions across backend systems
* Mentor and support senior and mid-level engineers
* Build resilient distributed systems
* Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to deliver new platform capabilities
Requirements
* 7+ years software engineering experience
* Strong experience with Go, distributed systems, and microservices
* Experience with event-driven architectures
* Cloud experience (AWS preferred)
* Strong leadership and architectural design skills
Benefits
* Competitive salary and annual bonus
* Hybrid working flexibility
* Opportunity to shape platform architecture in a scaling FinTech environment
Interview Process
1. Recruiter Introduction – 30 minutes Overview of the role via J&T Recruitment and discussion of architecture experience.
2. Technical Coding Interview – 60 minutes Backend coding and distributed systems problem solving.
3. Microservices Architecture Interview – 90 minutes Designing scalable backend platforms and event-driven systems.
4. Technical Leadership Interview – 60 minutes Discussion around mentoring engineers and technical leadership.
5. Executive Interview – 45 minutes Final discussion with the CTO or Head of Engineering.
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