Principal Go Engineer (£160k + benefits)

Morson Edge; Manchester; Remoto; GBP 96.000 - 160.000; Tempo integral

Benefícios oferecidos por esta vaga

Remote-first work environment

Occasional client visits

Resumo da vaga

Morson Edge is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead architecture and technical direction for AI-native software engagements. You will mentor teams, shape delivery across Go, React and AWS, and collaborate with stakeholders up to CTO/CEO level.

The role blends software excellence with practical business framing and hands-on problem-solving. You will champion AI-enabled engineering, design scalable distributed systems, and ensure cost- and security-aware cloud practices, while maintaining a

Qualificações

• Experience leading architecture for AI-native software systems.
• Strong client-facing communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale distributed systems in cloud environments.
• Hands-on with Go, React and AWS in production settings.

Responsabilidades

• Own architecture, technical direction and engineering quality on client projects.
• Mentor and raise the level of engineers around you.
• Engage with CTO/CEO level stakeholders to frame technical decisions in business terms.
• Set up AI-enabled workflows and embed AI within delivery processes.

Conhecimentos

Go

React

AWS

Distributed systems

Cloud & IaC

Data pipelines

AI-assisted eng

Consulting & stakeholder mgmt

Ferramentas

Claude Code

Agents

Descrição da vaga

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.