Lead Backend Engineer (Golang)

About the Role:

• Lead an engineering team in designing and building core features, functionalities, and digital product services across platforms.
• Partner with engineering management to align team workflows and deliverables with overarching organizational priorities.
• Drive and enforce software engineering best practices to ensure high-quality, maintainable, and scalable system architecture.
• Demonstrate strong ownership across all project phases—owning technical design, project estimation, and execution of complex technical solutions using appropriate technologies and infrastructure.
• Actively participate in monitoring, maintaining, and optimizing production systems to ensure uptime and performance.
• Manage team performance and identify growth opportunities to optimize capabilities and maximize engineering output.
• Actively participate in recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and mentoring backend engineering team members.

About You:

• Minimum Bachelor's Degree (S1) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Broad experience in core backend languages, with a strong willingness and capability to work extensively with Golang stack.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing, architecting, and executing distributed systems and high-throughput data processing pipelines, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and optimal performance at scale.
• Proficient in HTTP protocols, Web Services, OAuth authentication, and RESTful API design.
• Deep understanding of Clean Architecture principles and hands-on experience with message brokers (e.g., AWS SQS, Apache Kafka).
• Proven ability to architect, optimize, and manage robust database designs (SQL/NoSQL).
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure services (e.g., AWS, GCP).
• Strong communication skills with a proven track record of cross-functional collaboration.
• Highly proactive individual contributor with strong analytical skills, a continuous learning mindset, and a commitment to driving positive team culture and technical improvements.
• Minimum 4–6 years of hands-on experience designing, developing, and launching large-scale backend systems.
• Minimum 1 year of direct leadership or team management experience.