Team Lead GO

About the Position

Team Lead GO

We are looking for a Team Lead GO with 3+ years of development experience in Go to join our team in Armenia, Cyprus, or Poland, working remotely.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership, Ownership & Support:

  • Own the day-to-day technical execution within the team, from new features to bug fixes and quality improvements.
  • Ensure the team's code quality through reviews and enforcement of best practices (testing, security, maintainability).
  • Drive code reviews, enforce coding standards, promote testing and documentation, and help the team write robust, production-ready code.
  • Support and contribute to hands-on coding and testing. Lead by example through hands-on development, particularly for complex or critical features.
  • Own delivery of team components and backend capabilities as defined in sprint goals.
  • Facilitate design discussions within the team; escalate complex architecture topics to EM or Architect.
  • Raise and track technical debt; provide input to the EM for prioritization.
  • Facilitate task prioritization, workload balancing, and sprint planning. Track progress, identify risks, and resolve blockers.

• Planning & Delivery Coordination:

  • Ensure alignment with PMs, QA, DevOps, and BAs on deliverables. Work closely with PMs, EMs, QAs, and BAs to ensure that deliverables are clearly understood, scoped, and assigned.
  • Break down work items into deliverable tasks in collaboration with PMs and EMs, balancing workload fairly across developers and helping manage priorities during sprints.
  • Actively participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
  • Monitor team progress and adjust scope or priorities when needed, escalating blockers to the EM.
  • Maintain transparency on delivery status and keep stakeholders informed of changes, delays, or challenges.
  • Coordinate hand-offs and dependencies within the team and with adjacent teams.

• People Leadership & Development:

  • Directly manage engineers on the team (Juniors, Middles, Seniors). Conduct 1:1s, performance evaluations, career growth discussions, and coaching.
  • Provide day-to-day mentoring and guidance to developers, especially junior and mid-level engineers, by answering questions, sharing context, and offering feedback.
  • Foster a positive and inclusive team culture; ensure psychological safety, motivation, and team morale.
  • Participate in team growth activities, including hiring, interviewing, candidate evaluation, and onboarding of new engineers.
  • Identify talent and growth opportunities; support professional development. Partner with EM and Domain Lead to hire, onboard, and retain high-quality engineers.
  • Encourage a sense of ownership and pride in the team's work; celebrate wins and learn from failures together.

• Communication & Reporting:

  • Keep EM and PM informed of team progress, risks, and dependencies.
  • Share updates from EM or domain leads with the team.
  • Act as the go-to person for team-level updates in cross-team syncs or sprint reviews.
  • Participate in cross-team discussions to ensure alignment with domain strategy and priorities.

Requirements

• Core Skills:

  • 3+ years of development experience with Go
  • Strong time management and organizational skills
  • Ability to design and implement scalable and reliable software solutions
  • Excellent problem-solving skills
  • Git, GitLab, GitLab CI
  • Experience with multiple databases (RDBMS, NoSQL, Redis) and messaging services (Kafka, NATS), ideally run in a cloud environment
  • Strong system design skills
  • REST/RPC transports
  • Practical knowledge of containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Experience with microservices design and development
  • Understanding of the importance of a well-organized codebase and documentation
  • Strong analytical skills and an open-minded, creative team player mindset
  • English: Upper-Intermediate

• Nice to Have:

  • Understanding of event-driven architecture
  • Understanding of Twelve-Factor App methodology
  • CloudEvents
  • Experience working with cloud services (GCP/AWS)
  • GitOps
  • Terraform
  • Helm/ArgoCD
  • Grafana/Tempo/Loki + Prometheus
  • High-load systems
  • Experience coordinating complex third-party dependencies

Soft Skills

• Responsibility
• Sociability
• Proactivity
• Self-organization

We Offer

• An exciting and challenging job in a fast-growing business group
• The opportunity to be part of a multicultural team of top professionals in Development, Architecture, Management, Operations, Marketing, Legal, Finance, and more
• Great working atmosphere with passionate experts and leaders, sharing a friendly culture and a success-driven mindset
• Beautiful offices in Warsaw, Limassol, Yerevan; work remotely or on-site with comfort and enjoy the opportunity to build a network of connections with professionals day by day
• Modern corporate equipment based on macOS or Windows and additional equipment are provided
• Paid vacations, sick leave, personal events days, days off
• Corporate health insurance program for your well-being
• Referral program: enjoy cooperation with your colleagues and get the bonus
• Educational programs: regular internal training sessions, compensation for external education, attendance of specialized global conferences
• Rewards program for mentoring and coaching colleagues
• In-house Travel Service
• Multiple internal activities: online platform for employees with quests, gamification, presents and news, RedCore clubs for movie/book/pets lovers, special office days dedicated to holidays
• Company events, team buildings

About the Company

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