Posted 26 months ago
Team Lead SW Engineer - Golang
@ hireVouch
Remote in Canada
Overview
hireVouch is hiring a Back End Tech Lead to provide technical leadership for its engineering team, designing scalable, secure, highly available back-end systems and mentoring engineers. The work is hands-on, covering architecture, client demos and cloud-native delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership and guidelines for the engineering team
- Design and deliver scalable, secure, highly available back-end systems
- Review solution designs for technical viability and business relevance
- Lead client meetings and technical demos
- Mentor engineers and organize knowledge transfer sessions
Requirements summary:
- 8+ years of web application development experience
- 2+ years as technical lead of a development team
- Proficiency in Go and cloud-native solutions, preferably AWS
- Experience with event-driven architectures, event schemas and RESTful APIs
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
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- Employer posting date
- 2024-09-26
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-07
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Job details
| Seniority | Lead |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 8+ years |
| Management experience | 2+ years |
| Work setting | Home, Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (preferred) |
| Fields of study | Computer Science |
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Full company description
Our Edge Hiring and retaining skilled talent is paramount for your company’s success. Finding the right people – who have the right skills and right personality fit – can be incredibly challenging in today’s job market. Here at hireVouch we can help you acquire the highest calibre candidates through the relationships we have formed over more than a decade. Our approach is an ethical one. Rather than use the often-employed aggressive methods typical of the recruitment industry, our focus is placed largely on referral-based networking. Getting it right really matters to us. Let us leverage our network of talent that has already been vouched for by leading professionals in the industry to help your business grow. Services Offered Contingency and Retained Search Here at hireVouch we focus on sourcing best-in-class candidates for rewarding positions in Canada and the US. We have extensive expertise in Contingency, Retained and Temporary placement, primarily within the IT sector. On-Site Search Assistance We have a trusted network of HR and search professionals who can provide on-site search services to help fulfill immediate needs as well as help train internal staff in finding the highest quality talent Company Marketing Strategy We know how competitive the job market can truly be and how important it is to have a strategy to attract talent. At hireVouch we have extensive expertise in helping companies better market themselves. We can provide the tools and knowledge that will assist you in making your business a highly attractive place to work. Developing a company marketing strategy is key to hiring the talent you need to grow.
- LinkedIn followers
- 68,412
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 7
- Reported office locations
- 215 Spadina Avenue, 4th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7, CA
- Other recorded names
- hireVouch
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- Yes
Our Edge Hiring and retaining skilled talent is paramount for your company’s success. Finding the right people – who have the right skills and right personality fit – can be incredibly challenging in today’s job market. Here at hireVouch we can help you acquire the highest calibre candidates through the relationships we have formed over more than a decade. Our approach is an ethical one. Rather than use the…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Staffing and Recruiting |
| Company size | 2-10 employees |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2016 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 175 |
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Position Overview
We are looking for a highly skilled Back End Tech Lead to provide technical leadership and strategic guidance for our engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and developing scalable, secure, and highly available back-end systems while driving performance and collaboration across the team. You will work closely with architects and cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with business goals, resolve technical challenges, and mentor engineers to foster growth. This is a hands-on role where you will oversee system architecture, client-facing demos, and the overall delivery of robust cloud-native solutions.
Job Duties
- Provide the team with technical leadership over their particular function (backend, front end, QA, or data), and establish the guidelines and principles for building processes
- Work closely with the architect to holistically examine the organization’s engineering operations and objectives
- Identify and resolve technical issues and provide innovative ideas while driving performance and collaboration.
- Own the delivery of highly-available systems with quality, resiliency, security, latency, and developer productivity a key focus of each service built or maintained.
- Provide mentorship and technical oversight of engineering talent
- Lead client meetings and demos, demonstrating project progress or gathering technical requirements.
- Review solution designs to determine their technical viability and relevance to the business goals
- Support other team members’ growth by organizing knowledge transfer sessions and internal lunch & learn events.
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience web application development
- 2+ years experience as a technical lead of a development team
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or combination of education and experience
- Experience in building cloud native solutions (preferably on AWS)
- Proficiency in GO
- Strong understanding of software engineering principles and design patterns
- Strong foundation in event-driven architectures
- Proven ability to create and maintain highly available, scalable, secure, and observable services
- Hands-on experience designing and creating Event schemas and services
- Skilled in designing/building RESTful APIs
- Ability to write clean, well-designed, and high-quality code in a highly collaborative Agile development environment
- Experience in a peak performance organization, preferably a tech startup
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work cross culturally on a global team
- Prolonged periods of time sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- Ability to perform at a high-level in a remote work environment
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