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

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.