Senior Technical Lead

Role:Senior Tech Lead - Golang Experience :8+ Years Notice: Immediate -20 days## 1. Role OverviewAs a Senior Tech Lead for Go, you will be the hands-on engineering leader for one of our core development squads, responsible for building the most performance-critical services on our platform. You will lead a team of talented Go engineers in designing, developing, and operating high-throughput, low-latency microservices for domains such as our 24x7 Settlement Engine, the Oracle Signer, or our real-time Crypto Pricer.This is a key leadership role for a seasoned engineer who is both a Go expert and a natural mentor. You will be responsible for the technical execution and delivery of your team's roadmap, making tactical architectural decisions, and ensuring your team's code is of the highest quality. You will be a player-coach, spending a significant portion of your time writing code and solving the hardest technical problems alongside your team.## 2. Key Responsibilities-**Lead a High-Performing Go Engineering Team:** - Lead a squad of backend engineers in the day-to-day design, development, and operation of their microservices. - Drive the technical execution of your team's product backlog, ensuring features are delivered on time and to a high standard of quality.-**Own Your Team's Technical Domain:** - Be the lead architect and final decision-maker for the services owned by your team, ensuring they are scalable, resilient, and secure. - Decompose product requirements into a clear technical design and actionable engineering tasks.-**Hands-On Development and Code Quality:** - Actively contribute to the codebase, writing exemplary Go code and tackling the most challenging implementation tasks. - Uphold and champion a high bar for code quality, testing, and operational excellence by leading through example and conducting rigorous code reviews.-**Mentor and Grow Your Team:** - Mentor the developers on your team, helping them grow their technical skills in Go, distributed systems, and FinTech. - Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment focused on continuous improvement.-**Collaborate on Architecture:** - Work closely with the Solution and Enterprise Architects to ensure your team's architecture is aligned with the overall platform vision.## 3. Required Qualifications### **Must-Have:** -**Professional Experience:**10+ years of professional backend engineering experience, with at least 3-4 years in a formal Tech Lead or team leadership role. -**Go Mastery:**Expert-level,hands-on proficiency in Go , with a deep understanding of its concurrency model, performance characteristics, and testing ecosystem. -**Proven Leadership:**A demonstrable track record of successfully leading an engineering team to deliver complex backend services. -**Distributed Systems Architecture:**Strong experience designing, building, and operating scalable and fault-tolerant microservices in a production environment. -**Hands-On Mentality:**You must still be a passionate, hands-on coder who enjoys solving hard problems and leading from the front. -**CI/CD and DevOps:**Solid experience working in a modern DevOps environment with robust CI/CD pipelines and a culture of observability.### **Nice-to-Have (Highly Desirable):** -**High-Performance Systems:**Experience building low-latency, high-throughput systems, particularly in the FinTech, trading, or real-time data space. -**Kubernetes:**Experience deploying and managing Go applications in a Kubernetes environment. -**gRPC:**Practical experience building services using gRPC. -**Regulated Environments:**Experience leading a team in a regulated industry where security and compliance are critical.