Senior Backend Engineer | Golang | Backend Ownership

Senior Backend Engineer | Golang | Backend Ownership

Build the core of a high-impact AI platform - backend ownership from day one.

Join as one of the earliest engineering hires at a well funded, mission-driven AI company that is bringing transparency to one of the world's most complex global industries.

The MVP is live, enterprise customers are already engaged, and the next chapter is all about scaling the product into a robust, production-ready platform.

This role gives you real ownership. You will work directly with the founders and the VP of Engineering, shape core architecture, and build the systems that everything else will rely on. The problems are challenging, data rich, and tied to real-world impact.

The role

• Build a high-impact platform from emerging MVP to global scale - cloud natie & data-heavy

• Influence early architectural decisions that set long-term technical direction

• Own services end to end, including deployment and monitoring

• Ship high-quality, user-focused features

• Collaborate with the founding team on strategy, hiring, and scaling the tech team.

What you will get

• Significant ownership and influence from day one

• The chance to work on technically deep problems with real environmental and commercial impact

• Competitive salary with meaningful equity

• A senior team who value honesty, curiosity, and thoughtful engineering

Core skills

• Minimum 5 years commercial Golang experience, including APIs, microservices, and gRPC or REST

• Strong backend engineering fundamentals, with hands-on PostgreSQL and Redis in production

• Experience owning services end to end, from design and build through to production support

• Cloud experience, ideally AWS, with confidence deploying and running services in live environments

• Working knowledge of observability, including logging, metrics, and alerting

• A product mindset, with interest in the problem being solved and the impact of technical decisions

• Comfortable working autonomously in a small, fast-moving team with clear communication

Salary - Up to £95k + equity + benefits

Location - London (hybrid)

This is a rare chance to join early, shape the platform, and help define the engineering culture as the company scales.

Unfortunately, sponsorship is not available.