Lead Software Engineer (Golang/TypeScript) - Independent Contractor

FXC Intelligence; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 73,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

FXC Intelligence is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to own technical direction for Golang microservices and React/TypeScript frontends. You will lead a team of engineers, shape architecture, and ensure high-quality delivery across a customer-facing product.

The role emphasizes mentoring, rapid delivery, and collaboration with Product and Technology teams to align roadmaps with actionable tasks and measurable outcomes. Remote-friendly with international collaboration.

Qualifications

• Lead and coach a technical team to reach senior level.
• Write Golang services and SQL-backed backends.
• Build frontend in React/TypeScript.
• Follow clean code principles and review code for quality.
• Learn new business domain and product.
• Communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical people.
• Demonstrate learning and self-improvement.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for the quality of the code and architecture delivered by your team.
• Influence and coach the team engineers.
• Align your team on goals, outcomes and timelines.
• Collaborate with Product and Technology teams to translate our strategic roadmap into actionable tasks; provide visibility on delivery progress outside your team.
• Design, develop, test, maintain and enhance the Golang microservices and frontend applications you're responsible for.
• Deliver user-friendly, performant interfaces for our customers.
• Improve the performance and observability of our services and applications.
• Improve the quality of life of your team and the business through automation, process improvement or new technologies.

Skills

Team leadership

Golang

TypeScript

React

Clean code

SQL

Code reviews

Communication

Learning mindset

Mentoring

Tools

Git

Gitlab

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Lead Software Engineer (Golang/TypeScript) -Independent Contractor

6500 USD to 7500 USD per monthEurope Remote

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our team, taking technical ownership of a high-impact, customer-facing product. This is an opportunity to influence technical direction, elevate engineering standards and deliver features that make a meaningful difference to our clients.

If successful, you will:

• Take responsibility for the quality of the code and architecture delivered by your team
• Influence and coach the team engineers
• Align your team on goals, outcomes and timelines
• Collaborate with Product and Technology teams to translate our strategic roadmap into actionable tasks; provide visibility on delivery progress outside your team
• Design, develop, test, maintain and enhance the Golang microservices and frontend applications you're responsible for
• Deliver user-friendly, performant interfaces, driven by our design system, for our customers
• Improve the performance and observability of our services and applications
• Improve the quality of life of your team and the business, through automation, process improvement or new technologies

About the team:

You will join a technical team of c. 40 technologists with a key purpose of continuously and reliably collecting large amounts of financial data describing cross-border payments, then processing the data, checking the quality and serving it to our users so that they can make the best business decision

A typical team contains around 5 people, including a Developer, a QA and a Product Manager

We follow Agile methodologies and collaborate closely with product and commercial teams, so you will be interacting with various stakeholders across the business in addition to your immediate team

You should apply if you can confidently:

• Manage a team technically, coaching them to reach your level of expertise
• Write Golang services and web app backends, also using SQL
• Build beautiful, componentised application frontends in React/TypeScript
• Understand clean code principles and the language idioms of TypeScript and Go, experience reviewing code using these principles and establishing team quality standards
• Learn and engage with a new business domain and product
• Communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical people
• Talk about how you learn and improve your skills

These skills will help, but aren’t essential:

• Applications with concurrent logic (i.e. goroutines)
• Building CI/CD pipelines, especially with GitLab CI
• Configuring and using observability tools (e.g. Prometheus and Grafana)
• Containerisation services (e.g. Docker) and/or Kubernetes
• Experience utilising AI to increase productivity and efficiency of work and productionised AI tools
• gRPC
• MaterialUI

Tech Stack:

• Golang
• TypeScript
• React
• MaterialUI
• MariaDB
• Clickhouse
• Git
• Gitlab
• AWS
• SQL

AI Usage Disclaimer:

At FXC Intelligence, we are enthusiastic about the use of AI tools and value candidates with experience or interest in AI technologies. However, we kindly ask that candidates refrain from using AI tools during interviews or for technical tasks unless explicitly instructed by us. This is because we want to understand your thought process and approach to tasks. If AI assistance is used in tasks or interviews where it was not permitted and is detected, the submission may be discounted.

About us:

FXC Intelligence is a leading provider of cross-border payments data and intelligence, providing some of the world's biggest companies, central banks and non-governmental organisations with the strategic insights, expertise and awareness to effectively compete in their chosen markets. By joining us, you will be diving into a world of data-driven exploration and innovation, revolutionising financial insights through cutting-edge technologies, machine learning and predictive analytics. Your contributions will shape the future of cross-border finance, helping clients to uncover better paths to growth and profitability, as well as being a trusted reference and source for many of the leading international publications.

We are proud to produce industry-changing data and intelligence, aided by our company values of being customer-focused, taking ownership, knowledge, communication and leadership. We’re an innovative company that strives to look after its team, and we take pride in providing a positive company culture. Feel free to check out our Blog, Instagram, and Glassdoor pages to learn more about our culture and hear directly from our team about what it's really like to work with us! At FXC Intelligence, we believe in embracing diversity in all forms and fostering an inclusive environment.

All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran status, neurodiversity status or disability status.