Senior Golang Engineer

JUXT; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

JUXT is hiring for an AI Product & Platform role within a Tier 1 bank, focusing on building AI-powered products and scalable backend services. You will work in a high-growth team inside the Chief Technology Office, delivering cloud-native architectures and distributed systems at scale.

The role emphasizes Go expertise, production-grade APIs, and collaboration with product, engineering and AI teams to turn innovative ideas into solutions.

Qualifications

• Golang (Go) expertise essential.
• Experience designing scalable backend services and APIs.
• Proven ability to operate in microservices and distributed environments.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies, containerisation and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of software engineering fundamentals, system design and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI-powered products and platforms using Golang.
• Develop high-performance backend services and APIs at enterprise scale.
• Build and enhance internal developer tools, frameworks and reusable components.
• Partner with product, engineering and AI teams to turn ideas into production-ready solutions.
• Contribute to cloud-native, microservices-based architectures and CI/CD practices.
• Mentor engineers and promote a collaborative, high-performing culture.

Job description

Join our JUXT Tier 1 Bank teams AI Product&Platform team, a high-growth engineering group operating with a start-up mentality inside one of the world’s largest financial institutions. Working within the Chief Technology Office, you’ll help build the next generation of AI-powered products and platforms that will shape how technology is delivered across the bank. This is an opportunity to work at the forefront of Generative AI, cloud-native engineering and distributed systems, building scalable solutions from the ground up while collaborating with some of the industry’s most talented engineers and AI specialists.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build AI-powered products and platforms using Golang.
• Develop high-performance backend services and APIs that operate at enterprise scale.
• Build and enhance internal developer tools, frameworks and reusable components.
• Partner with product, engineering and AI teams to turn innovative ideas into production-ready solutions.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of cloud-native, microservices-based architectures.
• Drive engineering best practices across code quality, testing, observability and CI/CD.
• Solve complex distributed systems challenges, focusing on scalability, resilience and performance.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture.

Skills & Experience

• Golang (Go) expertise is essential, with a proven track record of building scalable, business-critical applications in production environments.
• Strong experience designing and developing large-scale backend services and APIs.
• Proven ability to build and operate systems within microservices and distributed environments.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies, containerisation and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, system design and performance optimisation.
• Experience building products and platforms from concept through to production.
• Exposure to AI, Machine Learning or LLM-powered applications is highly desirable.
• A passion for modern engineering practices, continuous learning and solving complex technical problems.