Principal Go Engineer (£160k + benefits)

Morson Group; England; Remote; GBP 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote first

Occasional onsite with clients

Competitive salary

Job summary

Morson Group, a leading software consultancy, seeks a Principal Engineer with Go, React and AWS expertise to drive architectural direction on client projects. You will mentor engineers, shape AI strategy and ensure commercial-aware decisions at CTO/CEO levels.

AI is core to the role; you will enable context engineering, select the right tools, and foster a pragmatic, delivery-focused culture with value-driven outcomes. Remote-first with occasional client onsite.

Qualifications

• Lead architecture and technical direction on client projects.
• Mentor engineers and raise their AI fluency.
• Communicate with CTO/CEO level stakeholders to frame decisions.
• Set AI up for success with proper context engineering.
• Deliver pragmatic, outcome-focused software.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and technical direction on client projects.
• Mentor and develop engineers around AI fluency.
• Collaborate with CTO/CEO level stakeholders to frame decisions.
• Implement AI-enabled engineering approaches with tools and agents.
• Ensure delivery-focused culture and iterative improvement.

Skills

Go

React

AWS

Distributed systems

Cloud security

IaC

Data pipelines

Vector stores

Embeddings

AI-assisted engineering

Stakeholder management

Job description

Great opportunity for a Principal Engineer with experience of Go, React and AWS to join a software consultancy at the forefront of AI-native software engineering.

The company employs around 500 people, works with a mix of large enterprises and fast-growing scale-ups, and their engineers are already using agents to deliver quality work for clients at a pace that wasn’t possible until now.

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be the go-to technical expert on client projects and will be responsible for architecture, technical direction and raising the level of the engineers around you.

You’ll be dealing with stakeholders up to CTO and CEO level, so you’ll need the commercial awareness to frame technical decisions in business terms and the confidence to call out when a problem isn’t a technical one.

AI is a core part of the role rather than a side skill - you’ll set AI up to succeed and treat context engineering as a craft (the right files, specs, examples and constraints), pick the right tools for the job and mentor the team in AI fluency.

The culture is pragmatic and delivery focused; they value outcomes over output, build the smallest thing that works and then iterate.

Skills:

• Go, React, AWS
• Distributed systems
• Cloud (cost and security aware) and IaC
• Data pipelines, vector stores and embeddings
• AI assisted engineering (Claude Code, agents, evals)
• Consulting and stakeholder management

The money is good too – up to £160k plus benefits including remote first working with occasional time onsite with clients to build relationships in person.