Lead Engineer - Go (3896)

GBG; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A data verification technology company in London is looking for a skilled engineer to join their team. This role focuses on building and maintaining address search products, providing opportunities to influence technical strategy and drive improvements. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in software engineering, particularly with Go and distributed systems, and should be passionate about mentoring others and promoting engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in software engineering principles.
• Deep knowledge of a high-level programming language like Go.
• Experience with distributed cloud systems, using containers and infrastructure as code.
• Knowledge of database technologies for algorithmic searching.
• Previous experience in leading a technical team.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of technical design and delivery of address search products.
• Raise standards for performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Mentor and coach team members.
• Drive continuous deployment for incremental releases.
• Ensure platform health and observability.

Skills

Software engineering principles

High-level programming language (Go)

Distributed cloud systems

Containers and infrastructure as code

Database technologies (e.g. ElasticSearch)

Algorithmic software design

Technical leadership

Engineering excellence

Architectural and design patterns

Real-time applications

Tools

Kubernetes

GitOps

SQL

AI tooling

Job description

About GBG

Enabling safe and rewarding digital lives for genuine people, everywhere

We make it our mission to ensure more genuine people have digital access to opportunities, and businesses have access to more genuine people. Our technology draws on diverse and reliable data to create a single point of truth for identity and address verification.

With over 30 years of experience behind us our team and technology are focused on enabling safe and rewarding digital lives for everyone. Regardless of age, location or background, genuine people everywhere should be able to digitally prove who they are and where they live.

About the team and role

GBG Location Engineering Teams

At GBG Location, our mission is to help every business in the world reach every customer in the world and we strive to understand location better than the people that live there. Thousands of the world’s biggest brands and household names rely on our location capture and verification services to power their digital commerce and data quality journeys. Every day, we help them navigate the complex world of global addressing—handling everything from Black Friday surges to the unique quirks of postal systems in 240 countries. Our global platform processes tens of millions of transactions a day, ensuring that customers everywhere get a seamless, low latency, accurate experience. It’s a massive, fascinating challenge, and we’re at the forefront of it

The Role

We are on a mission to build the best engineering team. We are looking for engineers who are excited to be part of our story and help us build a diverse and vibrant tech community. We hire engineers with a broad set of technical skills, who are highly cross-functional, and eager to solve a wide range of engineering challenges.

This is an exciting and impactful role that provides the opportunity to heavily influence the technical growth of our team and products. You will bring your passion for technology, experience of developing great software, and constant desire to improve. There are a wide range of opportunities to flex your technical skills, from designing and optimising searching algorithms, spearheading greenfield projects to ensuring existing products run as efficiently and reliably as possible. There is no line management responsibility with this role – you will work closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers and other Technical Leads to drive technical excellence within our teams and deliver value for our customers.

What you will do

• Take ownership of the technical design, delivery, and documentation of our address search products as we scale to support millions of transactions per day. This role has a mix of both hands-on development as well as lead/architecture work.
• Raise the bar for technical standards, performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Mentor and coach others to help them be the best they can be.
• Care about agility as much you care for scalability and availability. Continuous deployment keeps us focused on incremental releases.
• Take responsibility for platform health and observability, using our own data to understand user behaviour and drive product development.

Skills we\'re looking for

Core skills:

• A strong foundation in software engineering principles and deep knowledge of a high-level programming language. Go is used heavily across our products.
• Experience working with distributed cloud systems, using containers and infrastructure as code. We run on Kubernetes across different cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of database technologies used with algorithmic searching (e.g. ElasticSearch, SQL Server, MongoDB).
• Experience designing algorithmic software for scale, performance, and high availability.
• Previous experience of being the primary technical leader in a team and collaborating with other teams and stakeholders.
• A passion for promoting engineering excellence in those around you through coaching and guidance.
• An understanding of different architectural and design patterns, and an appreciation of when to use them.
• Experience shipping fast, reliable, real-time applications using modern development tools and practices.

Nice to have:

• Understanding of GitOps and experience with tools such as Argo CD.
• Experience with SQL and data warehousing/pipelining tools.
• Hands-on experience with AI tooling to enhance engineering workflows and deliver innovative solution
• Understanding of machine learning principles for developing advanced ranking algorithms.
• Proven experience in navigating and transforming legacy codebases, as well as leading greenfield projects.
• A polyglot who can identify and use the right tool for the job.

To find out more

As an equal opportunity employer, we are dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Partner if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process.

To chat to the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits and why we’re a great place to work, drop an email to be h i r e d @ g b g p l c . com and we’ll be in touch. You can also find out more about careers at GBG and check out our current opportunities at g b g p l c . com /careers.

Unleash your potential and be part of our mission to power safe and rewarding digital lives.