Responsibility:
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers.
Own and drive technical design and implementation of backend services in Go, using Postgres, Neo4j, NATS, RabbitMQ, and an event-driven architecture.
Split your time between hands-on coding and people leadership (about 50/50).
Identify your engineers needs and set them up for success.
Collaborate cross-functionally with product, frontend, and other teams to deliver features smoothly.
Be proactive in spotting areas for improvement, whether in system reliability, scalability, or team processes.
Champion our values and help shape our growing engineering culture.
Requirements:
5+ years of experience as a backend engineer, ideally in a web environment.
2+ years of experience leading R&D teams (backend focus preferred).
Solid understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architecture.
Strong communication skills both written and verbal.
Ability to work independently and as part of a fast-paced team.
High level of ownership, organization, and attention to detail.
Curiosity, adaptability, and eagerness to learn (and teach of course).
Extra:
Experience in startups, SaaS, or fintech environments.
Designing and scaling event-driven systems.
A love for mentoring and growing people, not just code.
The ability to laugh at failed deployments / urgent issues, and then fix them.
