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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) • Recruiter Introduction – 30 minutes Overview of the role via J&T Recruitment and discussion of architecture experience. • Technical Coding Interview – 60 minutes Backend coding and distributed systems problem solving. • Microservices Architecture Interview – 90 minutes Designing scalable backend platforms and event-driven systems. • Technical Leadership Interview – 60 minutes Discussion around mentoring engineers and technical leadership. • Executive Interview – 45 minutes Final discussion with the CTO or Head of Engineering.
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| Query | Country | Status | Response ms | Created |
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| Principal Software Engineer (Go / Microservices) | fallback | 441 | 2026-03-21 21:23 | |
| junior software engineer in Bristol | gb | duplicate | 16279 | 2026-03-21 17:34 |
| junior software developer in Bristol | gb | processed | 19654 | 2026-03-21 17:28 |
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