Golang Lead

About This Role

Leading engineering teams and driving the design, development, and delivery of scalable, high-performance backend systems is the core of this role. It requires strong expertise in Golang, distributed systems, microservices architecture, cloud-native technologies, and technical leadership. The ideal candidate will define solution architectures, mentor developers, and ensure successful delivery of enterprise-grade applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable backend services built using Golang
• Own end-to-end delivery of complex software capabilities
• Define solution architecture and design scalable, secure, resilient, and high-performance backend systems
• Drive technical decisions, design reviews, code reviews, proof-of-concepts, and engineering standards
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Architects, QA, DevOps, UX, and customer stakeholders to align scope, dependencies, and delivery outcomes
• Identify technical risks early and establish pragmatic mitigation plans
• Design and develop RESTful APIs, gRPC services, and backend components using Golang
• Build and maintain microservices and event-driven applications
• Apply effective concurrency patterns using goroutines, channels, synchronization, context, and cancellation
• Optimize database design, query performance, caching, and data-processing workflows
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, lead root-cause analysis, and ensure corrective and preventive actions
• Own technical planning, estimation, sprint commitments, and delivery execution
• Track technical dependencies, quality risks, non-functional requirements, and technical debt
• Drive CI/CD, test automation, observability, security scanning, and release-readiness practices
• Ensure compliance with coding, quality, security, performance, documentation, and review standards
• Use engineering metrics to improve predictability, quality, and operational reliability
• Mentor developers in system design, coding practices, debugging, and problem-solving
• Set clear expectations, provide timely feedback, and support capability and career development
• Participate in hiring, technical interviews, onboarding, and competency development
• Promote a culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, accountability, and continuous learning

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience
• Strong hands-on Golang development; idiomatic Go; goroutines, channels, interfaces, context, error handling, profiling, memory management, and performance optimization
• Expertise in RESTful APIs, gRPC, service contracts, versioning, authentication, authorization, validation, and backward compatibility