Technical Lead (Golang) - EMEA

The Role

We're looking for a seasoned Technical Lead who will own and advance all non-functional engineering capabilities across the organisation, covering observability, performance, testing infrastructure, CI/CD optimisation, and developer experience. They will set the architectural vision, define standards and principles, and deliver scalable solutions used by multiple engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain solution design principles and tooling standards for non-functional engineering (testing, CI/CD, observability, quality)
• Work closely with the Head of Engineering Operations to refine the domain strategy and propose new technical approaches
• Design and deliver reusable frameworks and components that reduce duplicated effort and raise the engineering baseline across teams
• Explore and champion AI adoption opportunities that enhance developer productivity, code quality, or engineering workflows
• Model and foster a data-driven, results-oriented engineering culture
• Design, communicate, and align teams around the target-state architecture for non-functional capabilities
• Lead architectural decisions, create ADRs, and ensure alignment with wider platform strategy
• Mentor engineers across the organisation on solution design, testing, CI/CD, and quality best practices
• Advocate for improvements in engineering processes
• Lead the design and delivery of new non-functional capabilities while developing team autonomy
• Manage architectural dependencies and ensure domain designs don't negatively impact other areas
• Build scalable testing infrastructure, observability frameworks, CI/CD optimisations, and automation tools (primarily in Go)
• Write production-ready Go code
• Analyse data to identify high-impact improvements; establish baselines and quantify ROI
• Debug systemic issues (e.g., flaky CI pipelines, performance bottlenecks, test infra failures)
• Lead major initiatives end-to-end using Kanban
• Translate technical improvements into business cases with measurable value
• Partner with engineering teams to understand pain points, run pilots, gather feedback, and drive adoption
• Line-manage engineers within the Non-Functionals team

Requirements

• Strong experience in software engineering with significant work on non-functional capabilities
• Proven leadership experience driving technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams
• Deep knowledge of architectural frameworks and principles (e.g., TOGAF)
• Experience designing long-term target-state architectures and architectural blueprints
• Demonstrated success delivering measurable productivity, reliability, or efficiency improvements with quantified ROI
• Experience line-managing, mentoring, and coaching engineers
• Hands-on experience with both client- and server-side systems
• Strong understanding of cloud-native environments: Kubernetes, observability, CI/CD, testing at scale
• Experience in performance optimisation, test infrastructure, and quality automation
• Experience with IaC, automation frameworks, and modern software quality tooling

Desired Skills

• Advanced Go development skills (primary language for frameworks and tooling)
• Proficiency with Kubernetes (resource optimisation, deployments, pod management)
• Infrastructure as Code proficiency (Terraform or similar)
• Proficiency with developer tooling: linters, static analysis, pre-commit hooks
• Strong API design and integration skills for automation tools
• Strong understanding of Kanban with knowledge of SCRUM principles
• Deep knowledge of software quality practices: static analysis, dependency management, security scanning
• Data analysis mindset: comfortable establishing baselines, tracking outcomes, and building metrics to demonstrate impact
• Proficiency with CI/CD systems, particularly GitHub Actions — including workflow design and optimisation

Benefits

• Everyone has unlimited paid holidays.
• Total flexibility in hours
• Employee share scheme
• Generous maternity and paternity leave
• Volunteering Days
• Company retreats
• Employee Wellbeing platform

We all share the same vision - we value authenticity, respect, responsibility, independence, honesty, diversity and inclusion and most importantly treating others how you wish to be treated.

Values

• It's ok to screw up!
• The only stupid idea, is the untested one!
• Trust starts with you - make it count!
• Assume best intent!
• Make things better!