Team Leader (Golang development team)

Altenar is an international IT company founded in 2011, with offices in Russia, Malta, Greece, Georgia, the Isle of Man, and Uruguay. We specialize in high-load software development and provide one of the best technology solutions worldwide.

As the Team Leader of a Golang development team, you will play a key role in both hands-on development and team leadership.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leadership & Team Management
  • Lead, support, and develop a team of Go engineers, including task planning, prioritization, and ensuring timely, high-quality delivery.
  • Mentor and coach team members, conduct code reviews, and foster a culture of clean, maintainable, and testable code.
  • Drive technical recruitment by conducting interviews and helping to grow the team.
  • Facilitate effective communication within the team and across departments, ensuring smooth collaboration in English.
  • Track and analyze key team performance metrics (lead time, cycle time, sprint predictability) to identify bottlenecks and improve efficiency.
• Technical Responsibilities
  • Design and develop scalable microservices and REST APIs, ensuring seamless integration with other company products.
  • Drive architectural discussions and make high-level technical decisions that guide the team.
  • Ensure system reliability by proactively identifying risks and addressing potential points of failure.
  • Monitor and manage technical debt, ensuring long-term codebase health.
• Process & Quality
  • Support and improve CI/CD processes and internal development practices to streamline delivery.
  • Write and maintain unit and integration tests, and ensure technical and product documentation is accurate and up to date.
  • Promote continuous improvement workflows, tooling, and delivery processes to maximize development velocity.

Required skills:

• at least 3 years of commercial development experience in Go;
• experience working with Kafka or other message brokers;
• experience working on highload projects;
• English is at least B2 level.

More from our stack:

Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Platform, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Log Explorer.

Benefits:

• Good compensation

• Health insurance

• Gym discount

• Corporate English lessons

• Modern comfortable offices in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Vladimir

• Monthly compensation for electricity and the Internet

• Multinational team with experts around the world

• Participating in professional events and corporate events