Golang Team Lead to $7200
Who we are:
Adaptiq is a technology hub specializing in building, scaling, and supporting R&D teams for high-end, fast-growing product companies in a wide range of industries.
About the Product:
Our client is a leading SaaS company offering pricing optimization solutions for e-commerce businesses. Its advanced technology utilizes big data, machine learning, and AI to assist customers in optimizing their pricing strategies and maximizing their profits.
About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced hands-on Backend Team Leader (Golang) to build and lead a high-impact team of 2-3 backend developers and a QA engineer. This team will play a crucial role in refactoring and performance optimization while also contributing to new product development.
In this role, you will be responsible for:
- Refactoring and Migration – Transitioning legacy Ruby code to Golang to enhance performance and maintainability.
- Scalability and Stability – Optimizing system architecture to support increasing demand.
- Data Pipeline Optimization – Improving event-driven processing for efficiency and reliability.
- New Product Development – Contributing to innovative features, such as a promotions application.
- Technical Alignment – Collaborating with architect and the core team leader to ensure alignment with the company’s long-term technical vision.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor a team of several backend developers and a QA engineer.
- Drive the migration of Ruby services to Golang, ensuring high-performance, maintainable code.
- Improve system scalability, stability, and performance through architectural enhancements.
- Oversee data pipeline optimization to ensure efficiency and reliability.
- Conduct code reviews, enforce best practices, and foster a strong engineering culture.
- Work hand-in-hand with architects, tech leads and the core team leader to ensure technical alignment.
- Participate in technical planning, designing scalable solutions that support business growth.
- Provide technical guidance and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks.
- Manage the team Scrum process, including sprint planning, backlog prioritization, and retrospectives.
- Track team progress and drive improvements in development velocity and quality.
- Ensure timely delivery of refactoring efforts, scalability improvements, and new product features.
Required Competence and Skills:
- At least 5 years of experience in backend development in Gloang
- At least 2 years of experience leading a small software development team
- Proven track record in migrating or refactoring large-scale applications
- Experience with event-driven architecture using Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Strong knowledge of high volume Elasticsearch for scalable data storage
- Solid understanding of microservices architecture and scalable backend systems.
- Strong knowledge of AWS Cloud, S3, RDS, EC2, EKS
- Experience Proficiency in relational databases (PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS) and caching mechanisms like Redis.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and performance monitoring.
- Ability to balance hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities.
- Problem-solving mindset with a focus on scalability and maintainability.
- Excellent communication and ability to work with cross-functional teams.
English level - Upper-Intermediate
Nice-to have:
- Experience with Ruby (for refactoring and understanding legacy systems). If there is no experience with Ruby, then willingness and learn and work with Ruby. This role is 70-80% Golang-focused.
Why Us?
- We provide 20 days of vacation leave per calendar year (plus official national holidays of a country you are based in).
- We provide full accounting and legal support in all countries we operate.
- We utilize a fully remote work model with a powerful workstation and co-working space in case you need it.
- We offer a highly competitive package with yearly performance and compensation reviews.