Senior Backend Engineer | Golang | Backend Ownership

Senzo
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 95K

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

API
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud Computing
PostgreSQL
Redis
Data Logging
Backend
Build Management
gRPC
Go
Microservices

Job description

Join as one of the earliest engineering hires at a well funded, mission-driven AI company that is bringing transparency to one of the world's most complex global industries.

The MVP is live, enterprise customers are already engaged, and the next chapter is all about scaling the product into a robust, production-ready platform.

This role gives you real ownership. You will work directly with the founders and the VP of Engineering, shape core architecture, and build the systems that everything else will rely on. The problems are challenging, data rich, and tied to real-world impact.

The role

  • Build a high-impact platform from emerging MVP to global scale - cloud natie & data-heavy

  • Influence early architectural decisions that set long-term technical direction

  • Own services end to end, including deployment and monitoring

  • Ship high-quality, user-focused features

  • Collaborate with the founding team on strategy, hiring, and scaling the tech team.

Requirements

  • Minimum 5 years commercial Golang experience, including APIs, microservices, and gRPC or REST

  • Strong backend engineering fundamentals, with hands-on PostgreSQL and Redis in production

  • Experience owning services end to end, from design and build through to production support

  • Cloud experience, ideally AWS, with confidence deploying and running services in live environments

  • Working knowledge of observability, including logging, metrics, and alerting

  • A product mindset, with interest in the problem being solved and the impact of technical decisions

  • Comfortable working autonomously in a small, fast-moving team with clear communication

Benefits & conditions

  • The chance to work on technically deep problems with real environmental and commercial impact

  • Competitive salary with meaningful equity

  • A senior team who value honesty, curiosity, and thoughtful engineering

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