Backend Engineer (Go) for Prediction Markets

Backend Engineer (Go) | Prediction Markets | Remote UK

Chance to join a scaling tech company with a fully remote engineering team and a very exciting runway of work lined up...

VERY competitive base + bonus + stock

Hiring at various levels

What they're building

• A real-money prediction and trading platform
• 0→1 product with a 100 million user fanbase already behind it
• Think Polymarket, but built for mainstream fans at serious scale

The stack

• Go
• PostgreSQL — complex query optimisation, indexing, schema design
• Kafka / event-driven architecture
• AWS, CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, SLOs

What they actually want

• Strong backend engineer who thinks in distributed systems — correctness and reliability matter here
• AI-native (Claude, Cursor, Codex, Copilot in your daily workflow, not just experimented with)
• Someone who takes data integrity seriously
• Cross-functional communicator
• Startup mentality (you've operated in small teams, figured things out, and thrived)

The culture

• Fully AI-native team (90%+ of code written by agents)
• Small, sharp teams
• Fast-moving, adult environment (high trust, high output)
• Ground floor opportunity (you're helping define the product and the way of working)

The perks

• Very competitive base + bonus + equity
• Top-tier private healthcare + dental
• Life assurance + 6% matched pension
• Fully remote (UK based)
• First few days onboarding in New York City
• Tons of autonomy