Posted 21 August 2026 Salary £100000 - £130000 per annum, Benefits: + Equity + Advantages Location London Job type Permanent Discipline Golang Software Engineering Reference RF-41

Staff Golang Engineer

£100k–£130k London Hybrid, two days per week No Sponsorship Option Unfortunately

I’m working with an exciting, high-growth technology business that’s looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to take a leading role in shaping the architecture and technical direction of their platform. This is a genuinely hands‑on Staff role. You’ll be solving complex distributed systems problems, owning major technical domains and setting engineering standards across the wider organisation.

The stack:

Go Kubernetes GCP MongoDB Temporal gRPC REST Event-driven architecture Grafana Cloud

AI is a big part of how they engineer.

The team uses Claude Code and AI-assisted development every day, with a real focus on figuring out how engineering teams can use AI to increase velocity without compromising quality. They’re looking for someone who doesn’t just use these tools, but is interested in how they can fundamentally change the way engineering teams work.

Responsibilities

- Owning architecture and technical direction across major areas of the platform




- Designing and building complex, scalable backend systems
- Driving technical decisions across multiple teams
- Establishing engineering patterns and standards
- Leading significant technical initiatives from design through delivery
- Mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar
- Helping shape the organisation’s AI-assisted engineering practices

They’re looking for:

- 10+ years software engineering experience
- Strong backend and distributed systems experience
- Significant experience with microservices and event-driven architectures
- Expert Kubernetes and Docker experience
- Strong database knowledge, ideally MongoDB or similar NoSQL
- Experience operating at Staff/Principal level or equivalent
- Experience influencing architecture and technical strategy across teams
- Experience with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Copilot or Cursor

Go experience is preferred rather than essential. They’re hiring an exceptional backend engineer rather than simply a Go specialist.

Experience with Temporal, Kafka, LLMs, gRPC, observability and SaaS platforms would be particularly compelling.

£100,000–£130,000

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