Golang Team Leader / AI Product Engineer

Eastern Peak is looking for an experienced Golang Team Lead / AI Product Engineer to join an AI tourism platform building AI-driven search, recommendation, and content enrichment products on top of a Go microservices backend. The team works in small, focused pods, using Claude Code and other AI tools to ship fast.

What We're Looking For:

• 5+ years of hands-on Golang experience in production 
• 2+ years of technical leadership experience
• Hands-on experience with Claude Code or similar AI coding tools
• Prior experience in an AI-native or AI-augmented engineering team
• Experience in startups
• A genuinely product-driven mindset - you think about user value and business outcomes before implementation
• Comfort facilitating and coordinating a team, and communicating frequently with customers
• Ownership mentality 
• Excellent spoken English.
  
  What You'll Do:
• Lead a team covering one or more of: an AI search & recommendation engine for major travel enterprises (SSO, security reviews, GDS integrations), a high-scale content enrichment API, and partner/supplier data ingestion pipelines
• 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, and thoroughly test your own work
• Coordinate work across the team: break initiatives into chunks, sequence them, surface blockers, and facilitate hand-offs (there are no project managers)
• Gather client requirements first-hand, join client meetings, and act as the spokesperson for your pod internally with product, design and leadership, and externally with clients and partners
• Represent your team in product planning sessions, bringing a strong product-driven point of view to scoping and trade-offs
• Help team members with product decisions and prioritization
• Take part in an on-call rotation to help maintain the platform's reliability and uptime.