Principal Go Engineer Up to £150k Hybrid London
Maze
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Principal Go Engineer Up to £150k Hybrid London This range is provided by Maze. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range 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: Design & scale a fault-tolerant ledger (Golang, Kafka, CockroachDB/YugabyteDB) Architect distributed, multi-region infra with five-nines reliability Lead backend, DevOps, and CI/CD decision-making Embed AI into engineering workflows & ops Strong engineer with system engineering & system architectural experience exceptional communicator across technical and non-technical audiences. Self-motivated, problem-solving mindset open to non-traditional backgrounds. You should have: Expert backend skill ideally in Golang, or Rust, Zic or C. Deep understanding of distributed systems at scale, messaging, and concurrency Experience in high-availability, high-compliance environments Bonus: Fintech, Trading or Financial Services background. Extensive API experience Experience as a founding member (10th hire or less) of an engineering team that successfully scaled. Huge ownership: build core infra from scratch. 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. Help define an open-source platform from day one. Clear path to tech unicorn status with fruitful equity included. Recently raised 8 figures in funding. Apply within if your skillset matches! Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Full-time Job function Engineering and Information Technology Industries Financial Services, Technology, Information and Media, and Banking #J-18808-Ljbffr