Tech Lead (Go) - Software Engineering

Job description

We are looking for a strong Tech Lead with deep software engineering and backend expertise to lead a small engineering team and take ownership of technical decisions, architecture, and engineering quality.

This is a hands-on role — you will drive the technical direction of the team while staying deeply involved in production development, architecture, and solving complex engineering challenges.

You will lead a small cross-functional team consisting of 3 Software Engineers and 2 QA Engineers.

Our core backend stack is Go, so we are looking for someone with strong commercial Golang experience and a solid background in building scalable, distributed systems.

We also expect you to actively leverage AI tools to improve engineering quality, productivity, and development velocity.

Responsibilities

- Lead the technical direction of the team and own key architecture decisions.

- Design and develop scalable backend services and APIs using Go.

- Stay hands-on with production code and solve complex technical challenges.

- Design reliable, scalable, and maintainable distributed systems.

- Lead code reviews and maintain high engineering standards across the team.

- Improve system performance, reliability, observability, and scalability.

- Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, and areas for improvement.

- Mentor Software Engineers and support their technical growth.

- Help increase team productivity and improve engineering efficiency.

- Collaborate closely with Product, QA, and other engineering teams.

- Continuously improve development processes, engineering practices, and delivery quality.

- Actively use AI-powered development tools to accelerate engineering workflows and improve code quality.

Requirements

- 7+ years of software engineering experience.

- Strong commercial experience with Go (Golang).

- Strong backend and software engineering background.

- Experience designing scalable architectures and distributed systems.

- Strong understanding of microservices architecture and asynchronous communication patterns.

- Solid experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, and REST APIs.

- Experience with message brokers such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, or similar.

- Experience with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.

- Experience leading engineers and driving technical and architectural decisions.

- Strong hands-on approach — you are comfortable staying close to the code and contributing to production development.

- Strong understanding of engineering best practices, code quality, testing, and system reliability.

- Experience using AI development tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar in daily development.

Nice to Have

- Experience with Kubernetes and GitOps.

- Experience building high-load or high-availability systems.

- Experience with event-driven architectures.

- Experience with Web3, blockchain, fintech, or other transaction-heavy products.

- Experience integrating LLM APIs or AI capabilities into production products.

- Experience with TypeScript / Node.js or other backend technologies.

Benefits

- Professional growth: support for courses, conferences, and English learning (up to 100% coverage).

- Work-life fit: remote or hybrid format with flexible hours across international teams.

- Paid leave: up to 20 vacation days + 8 company holidays + 5 personal days per year

- Recognition programs: structured performance reviews and team awards.

- Team culture: retreats in international locations (for example, company apartments in Cyprus).