Golang Technical Lead

We're hiring Tech Leads to run engineering teams of 4 to 8 engineers. You will be the technical owner of your team's outcomes. Most of your time will be spent writing and reviewing code, but you will also be accountable for technical direction, delivery, and the engineering health of your team members. This is a hands-on role; if you’re looking for a managerial position with no coding expected, this is not it.

Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Work Conditions: On-site, Full-time

What You'll Do:

• Set technical direction for your team's domain and defend your decisions.
• Write production code regularly, including in the most complex parts of the codebase.
• Review code from every engineer on the team and use reviews as a teaching opportunity.
• Plan delivery alongside your Product Owner: break work down, manage risk, and push back on scope when needed.
• Own incidents in your domain from end to end and coordinate across teams when required.
• Mentor and grow your engineers, including providing direct performance feedback when necessary.
• Represent your team's technical posture to partners, vendors, and senior stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Strong depth in at least one of our core stacks (TypeScript, Go) and the ability to ramp up on the others.
• Track record of owning a service or product area in production over multiple quarters.
• Demonstrated delivery in a startup or scale-up environment under shifting requirements.
• Comfort with the harder parts of the role: providing constructive feedback, saying no to senior stakeholders, and owning ambiguous situations.
• Effective use of AI coding tools as a force multiplier for the team.

Nice to Have:

• Background in fintech, banking, or other regulated industries.
• Exposure to partner-driven delivery, especially integrations with banks, asset managers, or platform vendors.