Give technical leadership to the squad to deliver reliable, fit-for-purpose software.
Act as the technical authority in Go for the team.
Ensure predictable delivery and high standards.
Bridge collaboration between UK and Sri Lanka teams.
Build and maintain components from design to production.
Help drive squad priorities and progress; escalate blockers.
Enforce code quality, scalability, and observability.
Make day-to-day technical decisions and trade-offs.
Ensure accurate estimates and on-spec delivery.
Assist with agile ceremonies including standup, Refinement, Sprint planning, Retrospectives and Demos.

Advanced commercial experience with Go as backend language.
Advanced commercial experience with SQL (PostgresQL ideally)
Commercial experience with GCP.
Commercial experience with React as frontend language (nice to have).
Data science (ML with GCP Vertex) (nice to have).
.Net Core (as we have some legacy services that need porting to GCP/Go) (nice to have).
Angular (nice to have).
Azure (nice to have).

Deliver tech with purpose... As a member of our Engineering team, your work truly matters. Your skills, knowledge and ideas will all help children stay safe online.
With people who care... Our Engineers are amazing! They’re also amazingly supportive. We all take ownership of our work, end to end. And at the same time, we really care about growing and winning together.
Through work that you love... You’ll get to work on solving problems for a global engineering team that has a user base in the tens of millions. And you'll be exposed to modern technologies and processes, in a fast-paced and supportive learning environment.
And a career that you own... This role offers so many opportunities to expand your skills and grow your career. You’ll get to attend local software conferences, paid for by us. And as you step up and take ownership to make things happen, you’ll carve out an incredible career.

Technical Lead – Golang

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