Lead Backend Engineer (Go)

Location: Hybrid, with recommended office attendance two days per week in Kaunas or Vilnius, Lithuania. Remote work is available under the workation policy for up to 90 days per year in the EU, including 21 days globally; non-EU citizens may work worldwide for 21 days.

Salary: €6,900–€9,333 gross per month.

Company

hirify.global is a second-hand marketplace and technology group operating hirify.global Marketplace, hirify.global Go, and hirify.global Pay across Europe and the US.

What you will do

• Lead the technical direction and architectural vision for VITA, the internal platform for alerts, on-call routing, incident management, and SLOs.
• Scope complex problems, design solutions, and coordinate delivery across engineering teams.
• Own incident management and on-call processes, improve related tooling, and reduce alert fatigue by establishing actionable alert standards.
• Design event pipelines that enable the AI incident agent to suggest root causes during live outages.
• Define and track product and process metrics, and keep alert routing and other critical systems reliable and simple to operate.
• Mentor five engineers through system design reviews, collaborative RFCs, and technical guidance.

Requirements

• Proven experience architecting, building, and operating high-scale distributed systems in production, including ownership from design through operation.
• Strong background in Go or a similar technology such as Java, Rust, Python, or C++.
• Experience participating in on-call rotations and responding to production incidents, with willingness to continue doing so.
• Strong product mindset for developer tooling, including understanding engineer users, identifying pain points, and measuring adoption and developer happiness.
• Understanding of observability, including metrics, logs, traces, and SLOs.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Strong technical communication and diplomacy, including explaining architectural risks to non-technical stakeholders and constructively challenging senior leaders with data and SLOs.
• Natural mentoring and collaboration skills, including breaking down complex technical problems and helping newer engineers grow safely.

Nice to have

• Experience with incident management, on-call, or observability tooling, or with a platform team serving other engineers.
• Experience building LLM-based tools or agents.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with flexibility to decide when to work from home and when to meet in person.
• Share options programme, private health insurance, pension plan with flexible contributions and matching, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• 25 working days of holiday and home office support, including equipment and a budget of up to €540 for furniture.
• Annual learning budget starting at €3,000 and up to 10 working days over two years for personal and professional development.
• Team-building events, a personal monthly hirify.global shopping budget, and dog-friendly offices.
• Office-specific benefits include gym and meals in Vilnius, and lunch allowances and provided meals in Kaunas.