Senior Software Engineer - Go

🚀 Senior Golang Engineer – London – AI Start-up

Location: London (Hybrid)

Compensation: Up to £150K

Atarus have partnered with a rapidly growing YC-backed AI start-up looking to hire a Senior Golang Engineer . This is an opportunity to join at the ground floor of a company that’s already secured a strong seed round, launched with enterprise clients, and has ambitious growth plans over the next year.

You’ll be joining a small, senior founding team who are redefining how AI-powered systems are built — already gaining traction with customers ranging from Series A startups to global tech giants.

🔍 What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing and building high-performance backend services in Go
• Working on distributed systems and API architecture to support large-scale AI workloads
• Collaborating closely with the founders on technical strategy and scaling decisions
• Helping shape the company’s engineering standards, tooling, and culture

🛠️ Tech Stack

Golang | gRPC | PostgreSQL | Kubernetes | AWS | Python | LangChain

(You don’t need to know every tool — they’re looking for curious engineers who love to learn fast.)

💰 Compensation & Equity

There are no preset limits on salary or equity. If you’re top-tier, they’ll match it.

✅ What They’re Looking For

• 5+ years’ experience working with Go in production (or equivalent backend experience)
• Strong understanding of concurrency, distributed systems, and API design
• Experience building scalable, high-performance services
• A genuine builder mindset — someone who loves experimenting and moving fast
• Based in London (or able to work onsite when needed)

If you’re excited by the idea of joining an early-stage, YC-backed team with serious momentum — get in touch:📩 taylor@atarus.co.uk