Lead Golang Engineer

We are looking for a Lead Golang Engineer to join our team! The ideal candidate will take ownership of designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, high-performance applications, while also mentoring and leading a team of engineers. Experience with Java is a plus.

Our client is one of Azerbaijan's leading mobile telecommunication providers, with the most significant 49% market share and 5.0 million customers. Together with N-iX, our customer plans to develop a Financial Payment Technology Platform Solution that allows B2C interactions for its impressive customer base, which includes 99.8% of Azerbaijan's population. 

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of backend microservices using Go (Java is a plus)


• Drive architectural decisions and ensure best practices in software development


• Mentor and guide team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and high performance


• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to deliver solutions that meet business objectives


• Ensure code quality, scalability, and maintainability through code reviews, testing, and automation.
  
  

Requirements:

• Extensive production experience with Go.


• Strong hands-on knowledge of Go: concurrency (goroutines/channels), context/timeouts, and writing idiomatic, maintainable code.


• Experience designing, building, and operating high-load backend services and microservices (scalability, resilience, consistency trade-offs).


• Hands-on experience with API design and implementation: REST and/or gRPC, versioning, and backward compatibility.


• Solid knowledge of datastores (SQL/NoSQL), caching, and data consistency fundamentals.


• Production engineering skills: automated testing (unit/integration), observability (logs/metrics/traces), troubleshooting, and performance profiling.


• Proven track record of leading engineering teams and delivering complex projects; strong communication and leadership skills.


• Cloud platforms: AWS (preferred, not required)

Preferred:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines; containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes); and production monitoring/observability tools.


• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum practices and working in cross-functional teams.