CareerPlan

Staff Engineer

Xapien LondonFull-time2026-11-06 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design and build complex, scalable backend services and systems using Go microservices, event-driven architectures, and AI/LLM integrations for due diligence and risk intelligence.

Role type

Staff Backend Engineer (Technical Leadership)

Builds

High-scale backend platform components including investigations pipelines, core app systems, and AI-driven analysis features.

Domain

Fintech / AI / Due Diligence

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Go, distributed systems, microservices, MongoDB, Kubernetes, GCP, event-driven architecture, LLM integration, system design, technical mentorship

Preferred skills

Temporal, Kafka, gRPC, protobuf, observability (Grafana/Prometheus), multi-tenancy, RAG systems

Technologies

Go, MongoDB, Temporal, Kafka, Kubernetes, GCP, Grafana, OpenAI, Gemini

Responsibilities

Own technical direction and architecture for major platform domains; design and build complex backend services; establish patterns and standards across teams; mentor engineers; drive technical initiatives from design to implementation; influence technology choices and architectural strategy.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with significant leadership scope