Backend Engineer (Go) - Break into AI

Backend Engineer (Go, Kubernetes, microservices, GCP)

🤖 SEED stage AI startup; Custom LLMs for Financial Services

💷 Package: £80k - £100k base salary + a chunk of equity + benefits

📍 Hybrid in London (1 day a week / ad-hoc visits)

We’re looking for a Mid-Level Backend Go Engineer to join an AI startup about to raise £10M in new funding

The product is a Generative AI company pioneering the development of customizable, privacy-preserving AI solutions; custom LLMs tailored to integrate seamlessly into enterprise applications, particularly within the financial sector.

A company of 10, the Co-Founders have PhDs in the AI/ML field & are looking for their 4th Backend Engineer to keep up with client demand for Product Development

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain performant services in Go, playing a key role in designing and building real-time, distributed systems that scale effortlessly and perform reliably under high load.
• Collaborate with Founders and the Frontend Engineering team to define, design, and ship new features
• Ensure systems are scalable, resilient, and secure
• Work with cloud infrastructure, containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines
• Take part in code reviews, architecture discussions, and performance tuning

What We’re Looking For

• A Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a closely related field
• 3-5 years experience building scalable, high-performance, real-time applications in a startup environment
• Strong programming skills in Go (Golang)
• Great understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and event-driven design
• Experience working with cloud platforms
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability tools

Bonus Points For

• Contributions to open-source projects
• Contributions to an AI product

⚙️ Tech Stack: Golang, GCP, microservices, Kubernetes, Kafka, MongoDB, Prometheus

If scalability, security, databases and performance is your thing, looking for high ownership and impact, this role is for you!

Please apply with an up to date CV and we will be in touch with next steps