Go Backend Tech Lead — High-Concurrency Platform

Nine

North Sydney Council

Hybrid

AUD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

3 days ago
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18 weeks parental leave
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Job summary

Nine is seeking a Technical Lead to head the backend team powering 9Now and Stan. You will build resilient, high-concurrency distributed systems and APIs, mentor engineers, and drive DevOps best practices. This role emphasizes leadership, coding excellence in Go, and a strong focus on security and AI-enabled tooling.

You will collaborate with Product Managers to align technical roadmaps with business goals and champion operational excellence across the platform.

Qualifications

  • Experience leading engineering teams.
  • Expertise in building backend services using Go.
  • Strong cloud experience with AWS and distributed architectures.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the backend team for the core streaming platform and APIs.
  • Write, review, and deploy high-performance Go code.
  • Design the full lifecycle of cloud-based distributed systems and APIs.
  • Drive CI/CD, automated testing, and staged rollouts.
  • Line manage engineers and support career growth and wellbeing.
  • Champion AI and automation to enhance monitoring and infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with Product Managers to align roadmaps with business goals.
  • Lead root-cause analysis to resolve production issues.

Skills

Go
AWS
Distributed systems
DevOps
Security
AI automation
Agile leadership

Job description

Nine is seeking a Technical Lead to head the backend team powering 9Now and Stan. You will build resilient, high-concurrency distributed systems and APIs, mentor engineers, and drive DevOps best practices. This role emphasizes leadership, coding excellence in Go, and a strong focus on security and AI-enabled tooling.

You will collaborate with Product Managers to align technical roadmaps with business goals and champion operational excellence across the platform.

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