Lead Go Developer

Andersen is hiring a Lead Go Developer for a project building a scalable distributed platform focused on high performance, reliability, and efficient concurrency for complex business operations.

Our customer is an international organization operating in the financial and protection services domain. The company provides a diverse portfolio of customer-oriented solutions across multiple business areas and markets. With a strong focus on digital capabilities, operational excellence, and long-term development, the organization continuously invests in technology, process improvement, and service innovation to support evolving customer and business needs.

The project focuses on building and evolving a high-performance, scalable distributed platform designed to support complex business operations and rapid product growth. The system is developed in Go, with a strong emphasis on efficient concurrency models, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and evolving scalable distributed systems in Go, choosing appropriate concurrency models and ensuring a balance between performance and maintainability.
• Collaborating with Product Managers to refine high-level business goals into actionable technical plans and delivery roadmaps.
• Anticipating and highlighting edge cases, risks, and technical constraints early in the planning phase to avoid issues during implementation.
• Representing the engineering team in meetings with external stakeholders, explaining technical topics in clear, business-centric terms and challenging unrealistic requirements.
• Leading and performing code reviews for other senior engineers, ensuring high standards for code quality, resilience, and reliability.
• Driving improvements in CI/CD pipelines and engineering processes, helping the team ship high-quality code faster and safely.

Must-haves:

• Experience with Go, including designing scalable and distributed backend systems, for 5+ years.
• Deep understanding of Go concurrency patterns (goroutines, channels, synchronization primitives).
• Strong system design skills with a focus on performance, scalability, maintainability, and architectural trade-offs.
• Experience working with CI/CD tools and pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar).
• Proven experience building and evolving high-performance distributed systems.
• Experience in leading and mentoring other senior engineers, especially through code reviews and technical discussions.
• Ability to clearly justify technical decisions both to engineers and to business stakeholders in simple, business-oriented language.
• Comfortable working closely with Product Managers, turning vague business goals into clear technical roadmaps and proactive surfacing edge cases and constraints.
• Strong ownership mindset and confidence in representing technical decisions and challenging unrealistic expectations when needed.
• Ability to drive engineering excellence by improving development processes, CI/CD practices, and overall system reliability.
• Level of English – from Upper-Intermediate and above.

Reasons why this job would be interesting to you:

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc..
• The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Job conditions – you can work both fully remotely and from the office or can choose a hybrid variant.
• Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth! The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.
• The opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 USD per month, depending on the level of expertise, which will be included in the annual bonus, by participating in the company's activities.
• Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.
• Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).
• Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).
• Referral program.
• English courses.
• Private health insurance and compensation for sports activities.

Join us!