Software Engineer

Software Engineer – High-Growth AI Company | Remote-First (UK) | Up to £100,000 + Bonus + Equity Want to work on a platform that's actually under load? This one handles thousands of transactions every second, and it needs engineers who enjoy making fast systems faster. The company is a fast-growing, profitable AI business with around 600 people. It's still in the phase where a mid-level engineer can ship meaningful work quickly and grow with the platform. What you'll work on You'll join a product engineering team building and running backend services in production. Your work will include: - Designing, building and shipping backend services, mainly in Go - Building event-driven services on messaging platforms such as Kafka - Improving performance, reliability and observability across live systems - Taking part in code reviews, design discussions and technical planning - Debugging production issues and fixing them at the root - Working closely with product and senior engineers to deliver features end to end What they're looking for - 3–5 years' professional software engineering experience - Strong backend skills in Go, or in Rust or Java with an interest in moving to Go - Hands-on experience building distributed systems - Experience with messaging or streaming tools such as Kafka, Google Pub/Sub or RabbitMQ - Experience building and supporting production systems What's on offer - Salary up to £100,000 - Annual bonus - Equity in a pre-IPO business - Remote-first, with just two days a month in London - A clear path to Senior Engineer as the team scales If you're ready for a role where your code goes live quickly and handles real volume, get in touch for a confidential chat.