Tech Lead (Go) - Software Engineering

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)