Tech lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, providing technical guidance and oversight to ensure the delivery of high-quality, customer-centric products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable backend services and applications.
• Utilize your deep knowledge of coding principles and industry best practices to write clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
• Architect, design, and optimize software solutions that adhere to industry standards and best practices, ensuring performance, scalability, and security requirements are met.
• Drive the development of customer-facing products by designing and developing user-friendly interfaces, following established UI/UX design principles.
• Design, develop, and version customer-centric APIs to enable seamless integration with our services, treating them as products to meet user needs.
• Implement Test-Driven Development (TDD) principles, writing comprehensive unit tests and automated test suites to ensure code quality, reliability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance (QA) teams to establish and implement testing strategies that adhere to industry standards, including continuous integration and delivery practices.
• Leverage and configure monitoring tools for system health and performance management, implementing logging, metrics, and alerting mechanisms to maintain operational excellence.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and evolving best practices to continually enhance our software development processes and methodologies.
• Establish and maintain comprehensive code documentation to enhance code readability, maintainability, and ease of collaboration within the team.
• Drive DevOps practices and possess knowledge of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization/orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) to ensure efficient and reliable deployment and operations.
• Mentor team members, providing technical leadership, coaching, and guidance on industry standards, best practices, and professional development.
• Excel in this role by actively promoting and implementing industry standards and best practices across the organization, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement in software development.

To excel in this role, you should have:

• Proficiency in Go (Golang) or a strong willingness to learn and work with Go.
• Expertise in software design, architecture, and system-level thinking.
• Solid knowledge of coding principles, data structures, and algorithms.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture or service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) principles.
• Knowledge of Protocol Buffers (protobuf) and gRPC.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• A passion for continuous learning and staying current with industry trends.
• Experience with JavaScript and ReactJS is a plus.
• DevOps knowledge is a significant advantage.
• Knowledge of Agile and Scrum methodologies, as well as the ability to define team and individual objectives to match roadmap and company goals, is a plus.
• Experience in implementing complex business processes.