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Golang Team Lead

Remote:

Full Remote

Experience:

Senior (5-10 years)

Work from:

Georgia (country), Poland, Serbia

Offer summary

Qualifications:

3+ years programming experience in Go, 2+ years leadership experience of 5+ engineers, Strong proficiency in Go ecosystem and SQL, Experience with distributed systems and Kubernetes.

Key responsabilities:

Lead the backend development team
Define and enforce coding standards and practices

SOFTSWISS Computer Software / SaaS Large https://www.softswiss.com/

1001 - 5000 Employees

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Job description

Overview:

SOFTSWISS continues to expand the team and is looking for a Golang Team Lead. We need a true, experienced and accomplished professional who shares our culture and values.

About Product:

SOFTSWISS Jackpot Aggregator

Multi-purpose iGaming solution that introduces the Jackpot-as-a-service business tool and integrates with any gaming project
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Key responsibilities:

Lead the backend development team to design, develop and maintain high-quality, scalable, and reliable high loaded backend systems.
Act as a point of reference for integrated systems.
Continuously improve various aspects such as performance, usability, scalability of the system.
Define and enforce coding standards, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
Work with system engineers to ensure seamless deployment and maintenance of backend systems.
Define and maintain backend development processes
Decision maker with backend application tech questions
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.

Requirements:

3+ years of programming experience, using Go as the main language or 1+ year with Go and 5+ years of experience with compiled statically typed languages (e.g. C++)
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 NoSQL (we use ScyllaDB) solutions
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)
English level В1-B2+