Team lead Golang developer

2-3+ years technical leadership experience (team lead / early-stage engineering manager) - HARD MUST
Solid Golang - real production experience (HARD MUST)
Proven Claude Code experience with specific examples

Requirements

Position name: Team Lead, AI Product Engineering
Level: Senior / Tech Lead

Hard skills requirements (including years):

• 2-3+ years of technical leadership experience leading a team, squad, pod, or similar unit (HARD MUST — think team lead or early-stage engineering manager)
• Developer background with 5+ years minimum — seen production reality before moving towards leading people
• Solid Golang experience: real production experience, not just personal projects (HARD MUST — no flexibility on other technologies)
• Proven experience using Claude Code as a core part of development workflow — share specific examples
• AI/backend engineering: deep knowledge of building and productionizing complex AI systems — observability, reliability, quality
• Product-driven mindset: ability to think beyond engineering toward product outcomes and user value
• Comfort facilitating and coordinating a pod without relying on formal authority
• Excellent spoken and written English for planning sessions, stakeholder updates and client conversations
• Ownership mentality — you test your own work thoroughly (no QA team)
• Ability to do on-call when needed to help maintain platform reliability & uptime
• European or African timezones (±3 hours from CET) — mandatory
• Available full-time (40 hours/week)

Soft skills requirements:

• Energized by product planning sessions — has opinions about what the pod should build next, not just how
• Comfortable being the face of the pod, in internal planning rooms and on calls with enterprise clients
• Enjoys enabling engineers who are technically stronger than you
• Ships fast but always verifies it actually works — QA ownership expected
• Gets frustrated when development takes weeks instead of days
• Made the conscious decision to lead people, clients and product — not the lifelong specialist path

Key responsibilities:

• Be the spokesperson for your pod, internally with product, design and leadership, and externally with clients and partners
• Coordinate work across the pod: break initiatives into chunks, sequence them, surface blockers and facilitate hand-offs
• Gather client requirements first-hand and funnel them straight into the pod so nothing gets lost in translation
• Represent your pod in product planning sessions and bring a strong product-driven point of view to scoping and trade-offs
• Help pod members with product decisions and prioritisation, enabling engineers who may be technically stronger
• Contribute hands-on as an engineer: own features end-to-end, use Claude Code to generate Golang backend code, review AI output for quality and architectural fit
• Join client meetings to align on requirements, report on delivery and keep the relationship professional and calm

Office/Remote: Remote

English: Upper-Intermediate+ (client-facing, mandatory)

Time zone: ±3 hours from CET (EU, Ukraine, African timezones)