Technical Lead

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Golang Lead Engineer with strong expertise in designing and building scalable backend systems. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience working on high-scale platforms, fintech systems, or distributed microservice architectures.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance backend systems using Golang.
• Lead architecture discussions and drive backend engineering best practices across teams.
• Build and manage distributed systems and microservice-based applications.
• Develop high-throughput and reliable production-grade backend platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver scalable technical solutions.
• Review code quality, architecture decisions, and system design implementations.
• Mentor engineering teams and provide technical leadership to developers.
• Implement event-driven architectures, APIs, caching, queues, and system reliability practices.
• Work with SQL and NoSQL databases to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Drive cloud-native deployments and infrastructure management on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Manage containerization, orchestration, and deployment workflows using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Support CI/CD pipeline implementation, monitoring, and production deployments.
• Ensure backend platform scalability, observability, security, and performance optimisation.
• Own backend delivery responsibilities and ensure platform stability in production environments.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong expertise in Golang and concurrent/distributed system design.
• Excellent understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on experience with APIs, caching systems, queues, and system reliability engineering.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and DynamoDB.
• Cloud expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and production deployments.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Good to Have:

• Experience with gRPC, Kafka, WebSockets, or streaming systems.
• Exposure to security, observability, and performance optimisation at scale.
• Experience leading engineering teams or owning large backend platforms.

Educational Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with strong backend fundamentals.
• Prior experience in fintech, banking, payments, trading, or other mission-critical domains is preferred.
• Proven experience building scalable and high-throughput production systems.