SENIOR GO ENGINEER | UP TO £110,000 / €130,000 + SHARES/TOKENS OR £500–£700 / €600–€850 DAILY RATE | REMOTE (EU)
This is an opportunity to join a pioneering blockchain-based derivatives protocol building the future of decentralized trading. As a Senior Go Engineer, you’ll design, specify, and implement performant systems in a collaborative team blending academic research and production engineering, while shaping the foundations of open, global financial markets.
📍 LOCATION:
Remote (EU only)
💡 ABOUT THE ROLE:
You will be part of the core engineering team working across financial trading, blockchain, and distributed systems. This hands-on role involves building production-grade code, rapid prototyping, and contributing to the mission of enabling open access to trading and risk data without central intermediaries.
💼 WHAT YOU’LL DO AS A SENIOR GO ENGINEER:
- Contribute to the design, specification, and implementation of core protocol code
- Write performant, production-quality Go systems and APIs
- Prototype new ideas quickly to validate and test functionality
- Collaborate with academic and industry engineers in a cross-functional team
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical peers
- Support the mission of building open, decentralized financial tools
💻 TECH STACK:
- Go (Golang) as the core language
- Python, TypeScript
- Tendermint for consensus
- gRPC and GraphQL for APIs
- Docker and Terraform for infrastructure and deployment
- Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies
🔎 WHO YOU ARE:
- Experienced Go engineer with at least two large, production codebases delivered
- Strong understanding of Go idioms, libraries, and computer science fundamentals
- Skilled in API design, data structures, and distributed system concepts
- Comfortable switching between production-quality code and fast prototyping
- Strong communicator, able to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams
- Bonus: experience with Solidity, Rust, Java, C#, or Python; blockchain systems; financial instruments or markets; documentation; or public speaking
💰 COMPENSATION & BENEFITS:
- Up to £110,000 / €130,000 salary with shares/tokens
- Contract rate: £500–£700 / €600–€850 per day
- Remote-first role across Europe
- Work in a high-caliber team with backgrounds in trading, academia, and engineering
🚀 WHY JOIN:
- Help build the next-generation blockchain derivatives protocol
- Work on complex challenges at the intersection of finance, blockchain, and distributed systems
- Join a collaborative culture of “relaxed excellence” with room for innovation
- Shape decentralized trading infrastructure with global impact