Lead Backend Engineer (Golang) - Jakarta

PT Bibit Tumbuh Bersama; Jakarta Utara; On-site; IDR 1,795,332,000 - 2,333,932,000; Full time

Job summary

PT Bibit Tumbuh Bersama seeks a skilled Golang Back-end Lead to own server-side logic and drive scalable software in collaboration with front-end teams. You will mentor engineers, review code and set technical direction while shaping product requirements with engineers and product managers.

You will research new technologies, optimize performance, and ensure secure, maintainable architectures. Strong communication and leadership are essential to deliver high-quality features on time.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience building product features.
• At least 1 year of leadership experience.
• 4+ years of Go experience and strong Go idioms.
• Experience with Kafka for event streaming.
• Understanding of microservices architecture.
• Familiar with Go tooling and frameworks.
• Experience deploying to cloud services (AWS/GCP).
• Experience with CI/CD Pipelines (GitLab).
• Self-motivated and eager to stay current with backend trends.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills, able to collaborate with team members.

Responsibilities

• Develop secure, scalable backend applications in Golang.
• Implement best practices for maintainable, high-quality code.
• Optimize existing code for performance and efficiency.
• Provide mentorship, code reviews and technical direction to the team.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to translate requirements into features.
• Work with Product, QA and UI teams to deliver improvements.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Teamwork

Communication

Tools

Go

Kafka

AWS

GCP

GitLab

Job description

We are looking for a skilled and passionate Golang Back-end Lead who will be responsible for our server-side application logic along with its integration with the front-end platforms. In this position, you will use your programming skills and tools to analyze and translate business/feature requirements into well-structured, efficient, scalable software, as well as provide leadership and mentoring to the team on technical aspects. You will also be actively involved in researching new technologies/tools that can be incorporated to improve the current system.

Descriptions

• Develop secure, well-architected, scalable and performant backend applications in Golang
• Implement best practices for maintainable quality code
• Optimize existing codes to improve performance and efficiency
• Provide mentorship, code reviews and technical direction to your team members.
• Develop partnerships with engineers and product managers to better understand and implement product requirements.
• Collaborate with Product, QA and UI team to deliver features and improvements
• Build & maintain a strong team of developers that consistently deliver solid results.
• Monitor and adapt the team's pace to instill a sense of urgency for progress while avoiding burnout.

Requirements

• Backend engineers with 5+ years of experience building product feature, including 1+ years of leadership experience.
• Having 4+ years of experience with Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms.
• Understand the importance of good coding standards/best practices as well as how they can be implemented in production environments.
• Experienced in handling Event Stream Processing (Kafka).
• Experience and strong understanding of the microservices concept.
• Familiar with Golang tools and frameworks.
• Accustomed to modern version control systems such as Git, especially Gitlab.
• Experience in Deployments to Cloud services such as AWS/GCP.
• Experience in Integrations using Pipelines.
• Self-motivated, passionate & eager to improve by keeping up-to-date with the latest trends in back-end development.
• Good communication & teamwork skills, capable of collaborating with other team members.
• Good self-managing skills, in particular with keeping up with the timeline.