Go Lead Engineer - Distributed Fintech Systems & AI

HeadHR; Wrocław; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

HeadHR is seeking a senior Go engineer with leadership experience to design and evolve scalable distributed systems. The role involves converting business goals into technical roadmaps, mentoring engineers, and refining CI/CD pipelines.

You will collaborate with product teams and external stakeholders to ensure high performance and reliability. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in Go, 2+ years in leadership, and strong system design skills, with fintech domain exposure and AI integration

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Go development experience.
• 2+ years in a leadership role.
• Higher education in Computer Science or related.
• Extensive experience with AI in a team setting.
• Experience in fintech/banking domains and complex integrations.
• Golang design of scalable distributed backends.
• Concurrency patterns in Go (goroutines, channels, sync primitives).
• System design for high performance and maintainability.
• CI/CD pipelines with modern tools.
• English level Advanced or higher.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve scalable distributed systems in Go, choosing concurrency models for performance and maintainability.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to translate business goals into technical plans and roadmaps.
• Anticipate edge cases, risks, and constraints early in planning to avoid issues.
• Represent the engineering team in stakeholder meetings and articulate technical topics in business terms.
• Lead and perform code reviews to uphold code quality, resilience, and reliability.
• Drive CI/CD and engineering process improvements to ship high-quality code faster and safely.

Skills

Go development

Leadership experience

English ability

System design

Go concurrency

Distributed backend

AI integration

Fintech domain

CI/CD pipelines

High performance

Education

Higher education in CS

Tools

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

HeadHR is seeking a senior Go engineer with leadership experience to design and evolve scalable distributed systems. The role involves converting business goals into technical roadmaps, mentoring engineers, and refining CI/CD pipelines.

You will collaborate with product teams and external stakeholders to ensure high performance and reliability. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in Go, 2+ years in leadership, and strong system design skills, with fintech domain exposure and AI integration