Principal Go Engineer (AI)

Location: England, United Kingdom; remote-first working with occasional onsite time with clients

Salary: £100k–£160k per year plus benefits

Company

hirify.global is a software consultancy of approximately 500 people delivering software engineering services for large enterprises and fast-growing scale-ups, with a focus on AI-native engineering.

What you will do

• Act as the go-to technical expert on client projects.
• Own architecture and technical direction.
• Raise the engineering level through mentoring and guidance.
• Engage stakeholders up to CTO and CEO level and frame technical decisions in business terms.
• Apply context engineering, select appropriate AI tools, and mentor teams in AI fluency.
• Build pragmatic solutions by delivering the smallest effective implementation and iterating.

Requirements

• Experience with Go, React, and AWS.
• Experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure with cost and security awareness, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience with data pipelines, vector stores, and embeddings.
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering, including Claude Code, agents, and evaluations.
• Consulting and stakeholder-management experience.
• Commercial awareness and confidence explaining technical decisions in business terms.

Culture & Benefits

• Pragmatic, delivery-focused culture that values outcomes over output.
• Remote-first working with occasional onsite client meetings to build relationships in person.
• Permanent contract.
• Benefits included with the salary package.

Hiring process

• Apply through the advert to receive further information.