Tech Lead Go Developer

The project focuses on developing and enhancing a digital freight transportation platform that connects customers with carriers and supports efficient logistics operations. It includes improving existing functionality, developing new features, optimizing transportation processes, and delivering scalable, reliable solutions for a growing freight business.

Responsibilities

• Own the team's delivery and execution: planning, cross-team dependency alignment, review processes, and quality.
• Set the technical direction, run design reviews, ensure solution consistency, and contribute to development (approximately 30% hands-on).
• Collaborate on discovery, primarily with the Product Manager, to technically elaborate ideas and hypotheses before development begins.
• Develop team members through 1:1s, feedback, basic performance practices, and mentoring.

Must-haves

• 5+ years of commercial Go development experience, including 1–2+ years in a technical leadership capacity.
• Deep knowledge of Go internals: concurrency, goroutines, channels, memory management, and garbage collection.
• Proven experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant, high-load backend systems from the ground up.
• Strong experience designing and developing REST APIs and microservices, including service decomposition and API contract design.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka and event-driven architectures, including messaging topology design for multi-service systems.
• Strong SQL knowledge and experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including transactions, indexes, locking mechanisms, and query optimization at scale.
• Experience with Redis and caching strategies, including cache invalidation design for distributed systems.
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including capacity planning and scaling strategies.
• Experience with Helm charts and Kubernetes configuration management.
• Practical CI/CD pipeline experience using GitLab CI or GitHub Actions, including multi-service release pipeline design.
• Experience supporting production services, including monitoring, alerting, incident investigation, and post-incident analysis.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and integration patterns, including consistency models, service boundaries, and failure handling.
• Intermediate+ English.

Benefits

• Opportunity to change projects and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Fully remote, office-based, or hybrid work options.
• Professional, financial, and career growth, with mentoring and adaptation support for new employees.
• Opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 EUR per month, depending on expertise level, included in the annual bonus.
• Access to a continuously updated corporate training portal and knowledge base.
• Certification compensation, including AWS and PMP.
• Referral program.
• Private health insurance and sports compensation, depending on the type of employment.