Senior Golang Engineers (Gen-AI)

Ai-powered
London, UK
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
£160,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Databases Distributed Systems Enterprise Messaging Systems Performance Tuning Large Language Models Concurrency Generative AI Backend Golang

Job description

£160,000 + benefits London Hybrid (3 days office / 2 days WFH)We’re looking for a Senior Golang Engineer to join our engineering team and help build the next generation of AI-powered products and platforms.This is a hands-on role for an experienced engineer who combines strong software engineering fundamentals with a genuine interest in Generative AI, LLMs and intelligent systems. You’ll have significant influence over architecture, technical direction and how we bring AI capabilities into production at scale.What you’ll be doingDesign, build and evolve high-performance backend services and platforms using Go (Golang).Develop production-grade systems that integrate LLMs, GenAI APIs and AI-powered workflows.Work on areas such as RAG, agents, tool calling, prompt orchestration and model integration.Design scalable APIs, distributed systems and event-driven architectures.Own technical decisions from design through to deployment and operation.Collaborate closely with product

Requirements

platform, data and AI engineers.Champion engineering quality through testing, observability, performance optimisation and clean architecture.Help establish best practices for building reliable, secure and scalable AI-enabled systems.Mentor engineers and contribute to the wider engineering culture.What we’re looking forStrong commercial experience building backend systems with Go.Excellent understanding of distributed systems, APIs, concurrency and scalable architectures.Experience building and operating production services in AWS, GCP or Azure.Solid knowledge of databases, messaging systems and modern cloud infrastructure.Experience with Generative AI / LLM technologies and integrating models into real-world applications.Understanding of concepts such as RAG, embeddings, vector databases, agents or LLM evaluation.Strong software engineering fundamentals and a pragmatic approach to solving complex problems.Comfortable working autonomously while collaborating effectively with other senior engineers.A passion for technology and a desire to stay ahead of the rapidly evolving AI landscape.The roleLocation: LondonWorking pattern: 3 days in the London office, 2 days working from homeYou’ll be joining a technically ambitious team where engineering has a genuine voice in product and architectural decisions. We’re looking for someone who wants to solve difficult problems, build things that matter and play a significant role in shaping our GenAI strategy.If you’re a senior Go engineer who wants to work at the intersection of distributed systems and Generative AI, we’d love to hear from you. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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