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Back-End Team Leader (Go)
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Back-End Team Leader (Go)
Back-End Team Leader (Go)
This leadership role is based in the United Kingdom and sits at the heart of backend engineering, combining hands-on technical expertise with people management and architectural ownership. You will guid a team of Go engineers responsible for building and scaling high-performance backend services and APIs in a cloud-native environment.
This role blends:
- Strategic planning
- Day-to-day engineering execution
- Ensuring reliable delivery, strong system design, and continuous improvement across the stack
You will also own AWS infrastructure, helping to shape:
- Scalable
- Cost-efficient
- Highly available systems
Working closely with architects and cross-functional stakeholders, you will:
- Translate technical vision into actionable engineering roadmaps
This is a high-impact opportunity for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments and enjoys building both systems and teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead a backend engineering team, ensuring successful delivery of scalable, high-quality Go-based systems and services
- Own technical execution across:
- Roadmap
- Infrastructure
- Engineering practices
- Foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Go backend engineers:
- Through coaching
- Code reviews
- Feedback cycles
- Own and drive the backend roadmap, ensuring:
- Timely delivery
- High-quality engineering initiatives
- Collaborate with software architects to translate technical strategy into:
- Actionable implementation plans
- Design, build, and maintain:
- Scalable backend services
- APIs
- Distributed systems
- Own AWS infrastructure:
- Architecture
- Deployment strategies
- Monitoring
- Cost optimization
- Promote best practices in software engineering:
- Clean code
- Testing
- System reliability
- Ensure high availability and performance in production environments
- Drive improvements in:
- Engineering processes
- Observability
- System design standards
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Requirements
- Strong background in backend engineering with:
- Proven leadership experience
- Deep expertise in Go-based systems
- Confident managing engineers, making architectural decisions, and operating in complex, distributed cloud environments
Experience and skills:
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience with strong proficiency in Go
- Proven experience in:
- Leading
- Mentoring
- Managing engineering teams
- Strong AWS expertise (EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Solid understanding of:
- Distributed systems
- Concurrency
- High availability architecture
- Experience with:
- Designing REST APIs
- Working with relational databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL)
- Strong knowledge of:
- Containerization (Docker)
- Orchestration tools (Kubernetes)
- Experience with:
- Event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Familiarity with observability tools:
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Datadog
- Strong communication skills in English
- Ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience using AI tools effectively in engineering workflows is a plus
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Benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Fully remote or hybrid working flexibility across Europe
- 28 days paid time off plus public holidays
- Opportunity to lead and shape a growing backend engineering team
- High-impact role in a fast-scaling international environment
- Collaborative culture focused on:
- Innovation
- Ownership
- Technical excellence
- Exposure to modern cloud-native architecture and large-scale systems
- Career growth opportunities in engineering leadership
About Jobgether’s Process
We use an AI-powered matching process to:
- Ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements
- Identify the top-fitting candidates, shared directly with the hiring company
- Have final decisions and next steps (interviews, assessments) managed by their internal team
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