Staff Backend Engineer - Go, AI-Driven Platform, London

SoCode Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SoCode Recruitment is partnering with a high-growth tech business to hire a Staff Backend Engineer in London. This hands-on leadership role involves owning architecture, guiding technical direction, and shaping the platform with a focus on distributed systems, microservices, and AI-driven development.

The role emphasizes solving complex backend challenges, mentoring engineers, and setting engineering standards across teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience required.
• Strong backend and distributed systems background.
• Experience leading architecture and technical strategy across teams.
• Familiarity with AI coding tools and AI-assisted development is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and technical direction across major platform areas.
• Design and build complex, scalable backend systems.
• Drive technical decisions across multiple teams.
• Establish engineering patterns and coding standards.
• Lead significant technical initiatives from design through delivery.
• Mentor engineers and raise technical bar, including AI practices.

Skills

Distributed systems experience

Backend engineering

Technical leadership

Staff/Principal level experience

AI tooling interest

Tools

Go

Kubernetes

Docker

MongoDB

Temporal

gRPC

REST

GCP

Job description

SoCode Recruitment is partnering with a high-growth tech business to hire a Staff Backend Engineer in London. This hands-on leadership role involves owning architecture, guiding technical direction, and shaping the platform with a focus on distributed systems, microservices, and AI-driven development.

The role emphasizes solving complex backend challenges, mentoring engineers, and setting engineering standards across teams.