Lead Engineer - Go

About GBG

Enabling safe and rewarding digital lives for genuine people, everywhere

We make it our mission to ensure more genuine people have digital access to opportunities, and businesses have access to more genuine people. Our technology draws on diverse and reliable data to create a single point of truth for identity and address verification.

With over 30 years of experience behind us our team and technology are focused on enabling safe and rewarding digital lives for everyone. Regardless of age, location or background, genuine people everywhere should be able to digitally prove who they are and where they live.

GBG Location Engineering Teams

At GBG Location, our mission is to help every business in the world reach every customer in the world and we strive to understand location better than the people that live there. Thousands of the world’s biggest brands and household names rely on our location capture and verification services to power their digital commerce and data quality journeys. Every day, we help them navigate the complex world of global addressing—handling everything from Black Friday surges to the unique quirks of postal systems in 240 countries.

Our global platform processes tens of millions of transactions a day, ensuring that customers everywhere get a seamless, low latency, accurate experience. It’s a massive, fascinating challenge, and we’re at the forefront of it

We are on a mission to build the best engineering team. We are looking for engineers who are excited to be part of our story and help us build a diverse and vibrant tech community. We hire engineers with a broad set of technical skills, who are highly cross-functional, and eager to solve a wide range of engineering challenges.

This is an exciting and impactful role that provides the opportunity to heavily influence the technical growth of our team and products. You will bring your passion for technology, experience of developing great software, and constant desire to improve. There are a wide range of opportunities to flex your technical skills, from designing and optimising searching algorithms, spearheading greenfield projects to ensuring existing products run as efficiently and reliably as possible.

There is no line management responsibility with this role – you will work closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers and other Technical Leads to drive technical excellence within our teams and deliver value for our customers.

• Take ownership of the technical design, delivery, and documentation of our address search products as we scale to support millions of transactions per day. This role has a mix of both hands-on development as well as lead/architecture work.
• Raise the bar for technical standards, performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Mentor and coach others to help them be the best they can be.
• Care about agility as much you care for scalability and availability. Continuous deployment keeps us focused on incremental releases.
• Take responsibility for platform health and observability, using our own data to understand user behaviour and drive product development.

Core skills:

• A strong foundation in software engineering principles and deep knowledge of a high-level programming language. Go is used heavily across our products.
• Experience working with distributed cloud systems, using containers and infrastructure as code. We run on Kubernetes across different cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of database technologies used with algorithmic searching (e.g. Elastic Search, SQL Server, Mongo
  
  DB).
• Experience designing algorithmic software for scale, performance, and high availability.
• Previous experience of being the primary technical leader in a team and collaborating with other teams and stakeholders.
• A passion for promoting engineering excellence in those around you through coaching and guidance.
• An understanding of different architectural and design patterns, and an appreciation of when to use them.
• Experience shipping fast, reliable, real-time applications using modern development tools and practices.

Nice to have:

• Understanding of Git Ops…