Principal Go Engineer (£160K + Benefits)

Morson Edge; England; Remote; GBP 144,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Occasional onsite client time

Job summary

Morson Edge is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead architectural direction on client projects, leveraging Go, React and AWS to deliver scalable AI-native software solutions.

You will mentor engineers, engage with CTO/CEO level stakeholders and shape engineering practices with a focus on context engineering and reliable delivery. Remote-first with occasional client onsite is offered.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a principal/lead engineer on complex software projects.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Go, React and AWS in production systems.
• Experience designing and delivering distributed, scalable architectures.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and technical direction across client projects.
• Mentor and raise the level of the engineering team.
• Engage with stakeholders up to CTO/CEO level to align technical decisions with business goals.
• Set AI-driven context engineering practices and select appropriate tools.

Skills

Go

React

AWS

Distributed systems

Cloud & IaC

Data pipelines

AI-assisted engineering

Consulting & stakeholder mgmt

Job description

Great opportunity for a Principal Engineer with experience of Go, React and AWS to join a software consultancy at the frontier 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.