Principal Software Engineer (Go / Microservices)

J&T Recruitment has been exclusively retained by a high -growth FinTech company in Bristol to appoint a Principal Software Engineer to lead the development of highly scalable microservices powering next -generation financial products.

Salary

£115,000 – £165,000 base + bonus + equity

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable microservices using Go
  

• Lead architectural decisions across backend systems
  

• Mentor and support senior and mid -level engineers
  

• Build resilient distributed systems
  

• Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to deliver new platform capabilities
  

Requirements

• 7+ years software engineering experience
  

• Strong experience with Go, distributed systems, and microservices
  

• Experience with event -driven architectures
  

• Cloud experience (AWS preferred)
  

• Strong leadership and architectural design skills
  

Benefits

• Competitive salary and annual bonus
  

• Hybrid working flexibility
  

• Opportunity to shape platform architecture in a scaling FinTech environment
  

Interview Process (5 Stages)

1. Recruiter Introduction – 30 minutes
   
   Overview of the role via J&T Recruitment and discussion of architecture experience.
   

2. Technical Coding Interview – 60 minutes
   
   Backend coding and distributed systems problem solving.
   

3. Microservices Architecture Interview – 90 minutes
   
   Designing scalable backend platforms and event -driven systems.
   

4. Technical Leadership Interview – 60 minutes
   
   Discussion around mentoring engineers and technical leadership.
   

5. Executive Interview – 45 minutes
   
   Final discussion with the CTO or Head of Engineering.