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

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Job Description 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.

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Location:
London
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Engineering

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