Team Lead SW Engineer - Golang

HRB; Canada; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Canada is seeking a highly skilled Back End Tech Lead. This role involves designing and developing scalable back-end systems, providing technical leadership, and mentoring engineers. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience, proficiency in GO, and a strong understanding of cloud-native solutions. If you are passionate about fostering team growth and innovating in a collaborative environment, we encourage you to apply.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in web application development.
• 2+ years experience as a technical lead.
• Experience in building cloud-native solutions (preferably AWS).

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and oversight for the engineering team.
• Identify and resolve technical issues while driving performance.
• Lead client meetings and demos, demonstrating project progress.

Skills

Web application development

Technical leadership

Proficiency in GO

Software engineering principles

Event-driven architectures

RESTful APIs

Agile development

Communication skills

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Job description

Position Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled Back End Tech Lead to provide technical leadership and strategic guidance for our engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and developing scalable, secure, and highly available back-end systems while driving performance and collaboration across the team. You will work closely with architects and cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with business goals, resolve technical challenges, and mentor engineers to foster growth. This is a hands-on role where you will oversee system architecture, client-facing demos, and the overall delivery of robust cloud-native solutions.

Job Duties

• Provide the team with technical leadership over their particular function (backend, front end, QA, or data), and establish the guidelines and principles for building processes
• Work closely with the architect to holistically examine the organization’s engineering operations and objectives
• Identify and resolve technical issues and provide innovative ideas while driving performance and collaboration.
• Own the delivery of highly-available systems with quality, resiliency, security, latency, and developer productivity a key focus of each service built or maintained.
• Provide mentorship and technical oversight of engineering talent
• Lead client meetings and demos, demonstrating project progress or gathering technical requirements.
• Review solution designs to determine their technical viability and relevance to the business goals
• Support other team members’ growth by organizing knowledge transfer sessions and internal lunch & learn events.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience web application development
• 2+ years experience as a technical lead of a development team
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or combination of education and experience
• Experience in building cloud native solutions (preferably on AWS)
• Proficiency in GO
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles and design patterns
• Strong foundation in event-driven architectures
• Proven ability to create and maintain highly available, scalable, secure, and observable services
• Hands-on experience designing and creating Event schemas and services
• Skilled in designing/building RESTful APIs
• Ability to write clean, well-designed, and high-quality code in a highly collaborative Agile development environment
• Experience in a peak performance organization, preferably a tech startup
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work cross culturally on a global team
• Prolonged periods of time sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Ability to perform at a high-level in a remote work environment