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

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Job Description
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- "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!
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Location:
City Of London
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Engineer, Greenfield, Engineering

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