Backend Engineering Lead - Compliance & Risk Platform

SOLANA FOUNDATION; Greater London; Hybride; GBP 110 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

KAST is seeking a hands‑on Engineering Lead in London to build and scale our Compliance & Risk Platform. You will own backend architecture, guide a team of engineers, and collaborate with Compliance, Product, Operations, and Engineering to deliver scalable, auditable systems that meet global regulatory requirements.

You’ll focus on Go‑based services, APIs, and operational tooling, while driving standards, automation, and reliability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong backend engineering expertise, particularly with Go.
• Experience building production‑grade APIs and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of system reliability, security, and auditability.
• Comfortable working cross‑functionally with compliance and operational stakeholders.

Responsabilités

• Lead the design and development of backend systems powering compliance and risk products.
• Build scalable services and APIs primarily using Go.
• Own technical architecture for compliance‑related systems including onboarding, monitoring, restrictions, and internal tooling.
• Partner closely with Compliance, Risk, AML Ops, and Product teams to translate regulatory requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Design reliable, auditable, and secure systems with strong observability and operational workflows.
• Improve automation and operational efficiency across compliance processes.
• Mentor engineers and help establish strong engineering standards and backend best practices.
• Participate in hiring and help scale the engineering team.

Connaissances

Go

Backend engineering

APIs

Distributed systems

System reliability

Security & auditability

Cross-functional

Cloud infrastructure

Outils

AWS/GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Redis

Description du poste

KAST is seeking a hands‑on Engineering Lead in London to build and scale our Compliance & Risk Platform. You will own backend architecture, guide a team of engineers, and collaborate with Compliance, Product, Operations, and Engineering to deliver scalable, auditable systems that meet global regulatory requirements.

You’ll focus on Go‑based services, APIs, and operational tooling, while driving standards, automation, and reliability.