Principal Go Engineer | Up to £150k | Hybrid London

Full-Time No home office possible

Principal Go Engineer | Up to £150k | Hybrid London

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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.