Lead Software Engineer; Golang​/TypeScript; Independent Contractor

6500 USD to 7500 USD per month

Europe 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.

• 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

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

• 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/Type Script
• Understand clean code principles and the language idioms of Type Script 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

• Applications with concurrent logic (i.e. go routines)
• Building CI/CD pipelines, especially with Git Lab 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

• Golang, Type Script, React, MaterialUI, MariaDB, Clickhouse, Git, Gitlab, AWS, SQL

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.

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…