Posted 21 August **** Salary £****** - £****** per annum, Perks: + Equity + Benefits 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 interesting.
£100,000–£130,000
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