Principal Go Engineer - AdTech SaaS Platform

Eligo Recruitment; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

Bonus

Job summary

Eligo Recruitment is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (Go) in a hybrid West Midlands role. You will shape architecture, mentor teams, and drive high-scale systems for advertising tech platforms.

You will own critical development initiatives while hands-on with core design and delivery. Ideal candidates have extensive Go experience, cloud expertise (GCP preferred), and a track record of building distributed SaaS platforms in AdTech/MarTech.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a Principal, Staff, Lead, or Senior Software Engineering role.
• Strong commercial experience with Go.
• Experience building and scaling distributed SaaS platforms.
• Strong cloud experience, ideally with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience working within AdTech, MarTech, Performance Marketing, or Digital Advertising environments.
• Hands-on experience integrating with advertising platforms and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and design of highly scalable cloud-native systems.
• Drive technical strategy and engineering best practices across the organization.
• Build and optimise backend services using Go.
• Design and develop integrations with major advertising platforms and APIs.
• Collaborate with Product, Data, and Commercial teams to deliver AdTech capabilities.
• Mentor senior engineers and contribute to engineering leadership.
• Champion performance, reliability, security, and observability across the platform.

Skills

Go language

Distributed SaaS

Cloud platforms

AdTech/MarTech

APIs integration

Frontend React

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

React

Job description

Eligo Recruitment is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (Go) in a hybrid West Midlands role. You will shape architecture, mentor teams, and drive high-scale systems for advertising tech platforms.

You will own critical development initiatives while hands-on with core design and delivery. Ideal candidates have extensive Go experience, cloud expertise (GCP preferred), and a track record of building distributed SaaS platforms in AdTech/MarTech.