Principal Go Engineer | Up to £180k + Bonus + Equity | Greenfield | London

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Senior Go (Golang) Engineer | Stealth Fintech | London (Min. 4 days/week onsite in London) Up to £200k + Equity | 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 Senior Engineer specialising in Go to contribute to 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
  • Contribute to backend, DevOps, and CI/CD decision-making
  • Embed AI into engineering workflows & ops
  • Self-motivated, problem-solving mindset; open to non-traditional backgrounds.


You should have:

  • Expert backend skill ideally in Golang, or Rust, Zig or C.
  • Deep expereince building distributed systems from scratch.
  • Experience in greenfield projects with high ownership.
  • Motivated and excited to work with AI.


Why join:

  • 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!


Please note: Due to the high volume of applications we are not always able to respond to all applicants, if you have not had a response within 7 days of your application it is likely it has been unsuccessful.

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Location:
City Of London
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Engineering

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