Tech Lead Go Developer

Andersen is hiring a Tech Lead Go Developer for a project developing a scalable digital freight platform and delivering reliable solutions for modern logistics operations.

The customer is a global technology company developing a large-scale digital platform that connects millions of users through a mobile application offering various on-demand services. The platform operates in multiple international markets and requires scalable, high-load systems, real-time data processing, and cloud-based infrastructure to support its growing ecosystem of digital products.

The project is focused on developing and enhancing a digital freight transportation platform that connects customers with carriers and supports efficient logistics operations. It includes improving existing functionality, developing new features, optimizing transportation processes, and delivering scalable and reliable solutions to support the growing needs of the freight business.

Responsibilities:

• Owning the team's delivery and execution: planning, aligning cross-team dependencies, review processes, and quality.
• Setting the technical direction, run design reviews, ensure consistency of solutions, contribute to development (~30% hands-on).
• Collaborating on discovery — primarily with the Product Manager: technical elaboration of ideas and hypotheses before development starts.
• Developing people: 1:1s, feedback, basic performance practices, mentoring.

Must-haves:

• Commercial Go development experience for 5+ years, including at least 1–2 years in a technical leadership capacity.
• Deep knowledge of Go internals: concurrency, goroutines, channels, memory management and garbage collection.
• Proven experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant, high-load backend systems from the ground up.
• Strong experience designing and developing REST APIs and microservices, including service decomposition and API contract design.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka and event-driven architectures, including designing messaging topologies for multi-service systems.
• Strong SQL knowledge and experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including transactions, indexes, locking mechanisms, and query optimization at scale.
• Experience with Redis and caching strategies, including cache invalidation design for distributed systems.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments, including capacity planning and scaling strategies.
• Experience with Helm charts and Kubernetes configuration management.
• Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI or GitHub Actions, including pipeline design for multi-service releases.
• Experience supporting services in production, including monitoring, alerting, incident investigation, and post-incident analysis.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and integration patterns, including consistency models, service boundaries, and failure handling.
• Level of English – from 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 EUR 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.
• Private health insurance and sports compensation, depending on the type of employment.