Lead Software Engineer (Golang/TypeScript/React)

FXC Intelligence provides cross-border payments data and intelligence to help organizations compete in international markets. The Lead Software Engineer will take technical ownership of a customer-facing product, lead and coach engineers, and guide technical direction. The role involves developing Golang microservices and React/TypeScript frontends, improving performance and observability, and delivering reliable data-driven applications.

Responsibilities:

• Taking responsibility for the quality of the code and architecture delivered by your team
• Influencing, coaching and line managing the team engineers
• Aligning your team on goals, outcomes and timelines
• Collaborating with Product and Technology teams to translate our strategic roadmap into actionable tasks; providing visibility on delivery progress outside your team
• Designing, developing, testing, maintaining and enhancing the Golang microservices and frontend applications you're responsible for
• Delivering beautiful, performant interfaces, driven by our design system, for our customers
• Improving the performance and observability of our services and applications
• Improving the quality of life of your team and the business, through automation, process improvement or new technologies

Requirements:

• Line manage a team, coaching them to reach your level of expertise
• Write Golang services and web app backends, and deploy them in Docker containers
• Write performant SQL
• Build beautiful, componentised application frontends in React/TypeScript
• Understand clean code principles and the language idioms of TypeScript 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. goroutines)
• Building CI/CD pipelines, especially with GitLab CI
• Configuring and using observability tools (e.g. Prometheus and Grafana)
• Experience utilising AI to increase productivity and efficiency of work and productionised AI tools
• MaterialUI
• Using Airflow, Python, Terrafrom