Senior Backend Engineer (Go) (United Kingdom)

Senior Backend Engineer (Go, Kubernetes, microservices, GCP)

SEED stage AI startup; Custom LLMs for Financial Services

Package: £80k - £120k base salary + a chunk of equity + benefits

UK Remote-First (occasional meet-ups in London, paid for)

We’re looking for 2 x experienced Backend Go Engineer s to join an AI startup about to raise £10M in new funding

The product is a Generative AI company pioneering the development of customizable, privacy-preserving AI solutions; custom LLMs tailored to integrate seamlessly into enterprise applications, particularly within the financial sector.

A company of 10, the Co-Founders have PhDs in the AI/ML field & are looking for their 3rd and 4th Backend Engineers to keep up with client demand for Product Development

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain performant services in Go, playing a key role in designing and building real-time, distributed systems that scale effortlessly and perform reliably under high load.
• Collaborate with Founders and the Frontend Engineering team to define, design, and ship new features
• Ensure systems are scalable, resilient, and secure
• Work with cloud infrastructure, containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines
• Take part in code reviews, architecture discussions, and performance tuning

What We’re Looking For

• A Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a closely related field
• 4+ years experience building scalable, high-performance, real-time applications
• Strong programming skills in Go (Golang)
• Solid understanding of distributed systems , microservices architecture , and event-driven design
• Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability tools

Bonus Points For

• Contributions to open-source projects
• Contributions to an AI product

⚙️ Tech Stack: Golang, GCP, microservices, Kubernetes, Kafka, MongoDB, Prometheus

If scalability, security, databases and performance is your thing, looking for high ownership and impact - this role is for you!

Please apply with an up to date CV and we will be in touch with next steps