Lead Software Engineer

• Design and develop highly scalable, reliable and fault tolerant platforms for one of the worlds fastest growing unicorns
• You will be responsible for the overall delivery and the solution architecture of the offerings your team will be working on
• Owning prioritization of initiatives to maximize achievements on objectives and growth for engineering at GoTo
• Understanding product engineering and have empathy with problems and pain points of Product Engineers, continuously contribute to make their experience better
• You shall write code, and lead the team with examples
• Communicate, collaborate and work effectively with product teams distributed in a global environment
• You will be responsible for the overall growth, learning and happiness of your team
• Own delivery and prioritization of product tech charters of the team

What You Will Need

• At least 8-10+ years of relevant experience. Mandatory to have experience knowledge in Golang, is a plus with other object oriented or functional programming language experience i.e. Java, Clojure, Python, Ruby etc building applications from scratch
• Deep understanding and working exp of distributed systems fundamentals, large scale systems, observability stack, prometheus fundamentals, container technologies, event driven architectures, and can architect solutions based on the popular patterns
• Ability to go into depth and breadth across the tech stack used in the product
• Hands-on experience to troubleshoot issues across network, OS file systems, containers, CI/CD pipelines, etc.
• Belief in left-shift approach when it comes to testing and holds him/her-self accountable on setting the right example for the team
• Strong people leadership skills including growing and guiding your team members. Passion for your teams mission and the self-starting personality to make things happen
• Have experience in leading a team of 6-8 engineers and owning the members to grow on top of overall delivery for the teams