Overview:
SOFTSWISS is hiring a Golang Team Lead to join our FinteqHub Team. We are looking for a skilled and driven Engineer to take ownership of developing and scaling high-performance, reliable microservices in Go.
About Product:
Finteqhub
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Purpose of the role:
You will be an integral part of the team, driving product development and integration by resolving technical issues, automating routine processes, ensuring high code quality, collaborating across teams, and maintaining clear, comprehensive documentation.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead the backend development team to design, develop and maintain high-quality, scalable backend systems
- Continuously improve various aspects such as performance, usability, scalability of the system
- Define and enforce coding standards, code reviews, and engineering best practices
- Drive in-house platform development
- Work with system engineers to ensure seamless deployment and maintenance of backend systems
- Define and maintain backend development processes
- Accountable for the backend development progress (e.g. statuses on the Jira board)
- Prepare/Supervise ADR and DevPlans
- Support technical roadmap up to date state
- Maintain and expand services observability (monitoring capability) in production React on production incidents, manage resolution process, mitigate future issues based on analysis 1-1 meetings with members from the backend team
- Support PDP (Personal Development Plans) creation for the backend team
- Stay current with the latest technologies, best practices, and tools in backend development
Required Experience:
- 3+ years of programming experience, using Go as the main language or 1+ year with Go and 5+ years of experience with other typed languages
- 2+ years in leadership role in a team of 5+ engineers (overall experience 5+ years).
- Strong communication skills, proven ability to build scalable team based on leadership
- Proficiency in Go ecosystem: data structures, multithreading, memory usage, garbage collection, etc.
- Experience in using relational databases (we use PostgreSQL), ability to write and optimize complex SQL queries
- Experience with distributed systems
- Understanding the principles of distributed applications and microservice architecture
- Good understanding of Linux, a good understanding of containerization (we use Docker)
- Ability to write testable code and unit tests for it
- Strong experience in Kafka (we use Kafka for internal and external transport)
- Experience in Kubernetes
- Communication skills, willingness to improve hard and soft skills
Nice to have:
- Experience with high-load applications
- Experience in writing applications that work with finance or in other areas where data integrity is a key requirement
- Familiarity with one or more modern approaches to designing back-end applications (DDD, Clean architecture, Hexagonal architecture etc)
Our Benefits:
- Full-time remote work opportunities and flexible working hours
- Private insurance
- Additional 1 Day Off per calendar year
- Sports program compensation
- Comprehensive Mental Health Programme
- Free online English lessons with a native speaker
- Generous referral program
- Training, internal workshops, and participation in international professional conferences and corporate events.
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