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Requirements
Must:
- 7+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong commercial experience with Go, including concurrency and pointer management
- Proven experience designing distributed cloud-based systems
- Experience building REST or REST-like APIs
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL and Redis preferred)
- Experience with ORM tooling such as SQLC
- Experience with Kafka or other messaging/streaming systems
- Experience implementing identity management (OAuth, SAML, LDAP)
- Strong unit testing experience
- Experience integrating third-party systems
- Experience with monitoring, tracing, and APM tools
- Experience supporting and troubleshooting production systems
- Experience working remotely with strong written communication
- Nice to Have: Experience with Temporal or workflow orchestration tools
- Nice to Have: Experience with background processing frameworks (e.g. River, Goworker)
- Nice to Have: Experience with Ruby/Rails or Python as a secondary language
- Nice to Have: Experience leading agile ceremonies without a dedicated Scrum Master
- Leadership & Behavioural Expectations: Leads by example through hands-on technical contribution
- Drives accountability in distributed teams
- Communicates clearly with engineers, stakeholders, and clients
- Encourages participation and healthy technical debate
- Comfortable delivering difficult technical feedback when required
- Continuously invests in personal and technical growth
- Prioritises delivery of value while managing risk
- Maintains strong customer awareness without over-engineering
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable backend services using idiomatic Go
- Architect distributed systems with performance and reliability in mind
- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and third-party integrations
- Apply advanced concurrency patterns using goroutines and channels
- Design and optimise data models across SQL and NoSQL systems (PostgreSQL and Redis preferred)
- Work with ORM tooling such as SQLC
- Implement streaming and messaging systems (Kafka or equivalent)
- Design and implement identity management solutions (OAuth, SAML, LDAP)
- Lead architectural discussions and technical decision-making
- Identify and address technical debt with structured remediation plans
- Refactor systems to introduce appropriate architectural patterns
- Support and troubleshoot live production systems
- Improve monitoring, tracing, and observability practices
- Influence automated testing as a first-class engineering concern
- Lead estimation, planning, and technical story refinement
- Work closely with product stakeholders on requirements and rollout plans
- Introduce risk-reduction strategies such as feature flags and gradual rollouts
- Mentor and direct less experienced engineers
- Facilitate agile delivery practices where required
Description
We are a distributed backend engineering team focused on building scalable, cloud-native systems in Go. We offer a remote, full-time opportunity where you will operate as a technical lead, designing complex distributed services while remaining hands-on in production code. In this role, you will play a critical part in architectural decisions, guide engineering standards, mentor less experienced engineers, and collaborate closely with product stakeholders to deliver reliable, high-performing systems. Our team values technical credibility and system thinking, and we prioritize delivering value while managing risk.
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