Principal Go Engineer | Up to £200k | Hybrid London

Job Description

Principal Go (Golang) Engineer | Stealth Fintech | London (Min. 4 days / week onsite in London) Up to £200k + Equity | Hybrid 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-native "Thin Ledger" —set to replace legacy infrastructure at Tier 1 banks.

We're looking for a Principal Engineer specialising in Go to lead 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
• Lead backend, DevOps, and CI / CD decision-making
• Embed AI into engineering workflows & ops
• Strong engineer with system engineering & system architectural experience; exceptional communicator across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Self-motivated, problem-solving mindset; open to non-traditional backgrounds.

You should have :

Deep understanding of distributed systems at scale, messag...