Tech Lead (Go) - Software Engineering

About this role

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).