Lead Software Engineer (Golang/TypeScript/React)

FXC Intelligence

1d • Remote

About The Position

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our team, taking technical ownership of a high-impact, customer-facing product, which some of the world's biggest companies, central banks and non-governmental organisations use to build revenue and volume through data and analytics. This is an opportunity to influence technical direction, elevate engineering standards and deliver features that make a meaningful difference to our clients. The team you will join is a technical team of approximately 30 technologists with a key purpose of continuously and reliably collecting large amounts of financial data describing cross-border payments, then processing the data, verifying its quality and serving it to our users so that they can make informed business decisions. A typical team contains around three engineers and a Product Manager. You will be interacting with various stakeholders across the business in addition to your immediate team.

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

Nice To Haves

• 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, Terraform

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

Benefits

• We are proud to produce industry-changing data and intelligence, aided by our company values of being customer-focused, taking ownership, knowledge, communication and leadership.
• We’re an innovative company that strives to look after its team, and we take pride in providing a positive company culture.
• We believe in embracing diversity in all forms and fostering an inclusive environment. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual attention, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran status, neurodiversity status or disability status.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed