Tech Lead- Go-lang

Geekyants; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Geekyants is seeking a highly experienced Senior Golang Lead Engineer to design and build scalable backend systems. The role involves leading architecture discussions, managing microservice applications, and mentoring engineering teams.

Ideal candidates will have strong expertise in Golang, microservices, and cloud environments including AWS or GCP. Excellent problem-solving and stakeholder management skills are essential, along with experience in CI/CD and containerization.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Golang and concurrent/distributed system design.
• Excellent understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on experience with APIs, caching systems, queues, and system reliability engineering.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and DynamoDB.
• Cloud expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and production deployments.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance backend systems using Golang.
• Lead architecture discussions and drive backend engineering best practices across teams.
• Build and manage distributed systems and microservice-based applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver scalable technical solutions.
• Review code quality, architecture decisions, and system design implementations.
• Mentor engineering teams and provide technical leadership.

Skills

Golang expertise

Microservices architecture

Event-driven architectures

SQL and NoSQL databases

Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Docker and Kubernetes

CI/CD practices

Leadership and mentoring

Problem-solving skills

Job description

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Golang Lead Engineer with strong expertise in designing and building scalable backend systems. The ideal candidate should have hands‑on experience working on high‑scale platforms, fintech systems, or distributed microservice architectures.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance backend systems using Golang.
• Lead architecture discussions and drive backend engineering best practices across teams.
• Build and manage distributed systems and microservice-based applications.
• Develop high-throughput and reliable production‑grade backend platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver scalable technical solutions.
• Review code quality, architecture decisions, and system design implementations.
• Mentor engineering teams and provide technical leadership to developers.
• Implement event-driven architectures, APIs, caching, queues, and system reliability practices.
• Work with SQL and NoSQL databases to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Drive cloud-native deployments and infrastructure management on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Manage containerization, orchestration, and deployment workflows using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Support CI/CD pipeline implementation, monitoring, and production deployments.
• Ensure backend platform scalability, observability, security, and performance optimization.
• Own backend delivery responsibilities and ensure platform stability in production environments.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong expertise in Golang and concurrent/distributed system design.
• Excellent understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Hands‑on experience with APIs, caching systems, queues, and system reliability engineering.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and DynamoDB.
• Cloud expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and production deployments.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Good to Have:

• Experience with gRPC, Kafka, WebSockets, or streaming systems.
• Exposure to security, observability, and performance optimization at scale.
• Experience leading engineering teams or owning large backend platforms.