Lead Go Developer

Lead Go Developer

Location: UK - Remote

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 GBP

Working Pattern: Remote-first, with a requirement to align working hours with PST (c. 6:30pm-7:00pm GMT finish)

We're partnering with a fast-growing, product-led technology company to find an experienced Lead Go Developer to join their fully remote engineering team.

This is a hands‑on technical leadership role where you'll take ownership of core backend services, influence architectural direction, and play a key role in mentoring and shaping a high‑performing distributed team.

You'll be working on complex, cloud‑native systems, collaborating closely with product and stakeholders, and driving best practices across engineering, delivery, and quality.

• Lead the design and development of backend services using Go in a distributed cloud environment.
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs and integrations with third‑party systems.
• Take ownership of technical design decisions and contribute to long‑term architecture.
• Mentor and support less experienced engineers, providing technical guidance and code reviews.
• Work closely with product stakeholders on requirements, estimation, and delivery planning.
• Ensure systems are scalable, reliable, observable, and well‑tested.
• Support and troubleshoot live production systems when required.
• Champion automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and performance optimisation.

• 7+ years' experience in Software Engineering or a related field.
• Strong commercial experience with Go
  , including:
  • Go routines, channels, concurrency patterns, pointers
  • Writing idiomatic, maintainable Go
• Experience building REST or REST‑like APIs
  .
• Experience working in distributed, cloud‑based systems
  .
• Strong database experience (SQL & No
  
  SQL), ideally Postgre
  
  SQL and Redis
  .
• Experience with Kafka or other messaging/streaming platforms
  .
• Experience with ORM tools such as SQLC.
• Identity management (OAuth, SAML, LDAP).
• Unit testing and test‑driven development.
• Monitoring, tracing, and observability.

• Workflow orchestration (e.g.
  Temporal
  ).
• Background processing (e.g.
  River, Goworker
  ).
• Ruby/Rails or Python as secondary languages.
• Experience with Application Performance Monitoring (APM).

You're not just writing code - you're shaping the team and platform:

• Comfortable working remotely with minimal supervision.
• Leads technical discussions and architectural decisions.
• Identifies and addresses technical debt.
• Refactors and evolves systems toward better patterns.
• Runs agile practices when needed.
• Drives quality through testing and deployment strategies.
• Works directly with clients and stakeholders when required.

• Strong communicator (written and verbal).
• Collaborative and supportive team player.
• Comfortable working through ambiguity.
• Curious, continuously learning, and keeps up with new tech.
• Customer‑focused mindset without over‑engineering.
• Methodical, organised, and good at prioritisation.

Due to the nature of the client base, there is a requirement to align with PST working hours
, so ideally candidates should be comfortable working until 6:30pm-7:00pm GMT on a regular basis.

This one will suit a proper senior/lead engineer who wants influence, autonomy, and technical ownership - not just another ticket‑driven Go role.