Software Development Team Lead - Remote Messaging Solutions

About the Role

We are seeking a Software Development Team Lead to join our team remotely. In this role, you will drive technical direction and lead a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions. As a Software Development Team Lead, you will combine hands-on development with leadership, contributing to backend services while guiding architectural decisions and maintaining a strong engineering culture.

What You'll Do

• Lead and manage a team of engineers, supporting their growth and performance.
• Define and drive quarterly, release, and sprint planning.
• Ensure stability and reliability of services in production.
• Contribute hands-on to backend development, primarily in Golang.
• Design and evolve scalable distributed systems.
• Review and challenge technical designs with a focus on risk, scalability, and testability.
• Define and improve testing strategies in collaboration with QA.
• Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines, tooling, and development practices.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners and other teams.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software development in product environments.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Golang.
• 3+ years of experience in a people management role.
• Strong experience with distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Solid experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
• Ability to drive architectural decisions and assess trade-offs.
• Strong ownership, attention to detail, and a business-oriented mindset.
• Strong exposure to SRE practices and production reliability.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Java and Spring Boot.

What We Offer

• Lead a team of experienced engineers and shape how the team works, delivers, and grows.
• Work on complex, real-time messaging systems at scale, with modern infrastructure (Go, Kafka/RabbitMQ, Kubernetes).
• A strong engineering environment where you can challenge decisions, improve practices, and raise the bar on quality.
• A fast-moving context with evolving priorities, where you’re trusted to take ownership and make decisions.
• A product used at scale, where your work has a direct impact on customers and business outcomes.