Golang Technical Lead (Fintech)

Location: Remote for candidates based in the UK, with occasional travel to client sites across the UK required.

Company

hirify.global is an independent team of data and AI experts, engineers, and designers building intelligent digital solutions and modernizing legacy systems for enterprise clients.

What you will do

• Provide technical and line-management leadership to development teams.
• Own successful project delivery and resolve blockers before they become issues.
• Work directly with clients to translate business and technical requirements into technical briefs and applications.
• Shape architectural decisions for scalable, secure, and maintainable systems.
• Ensure strong software development, DevOps, testing, and agile practices.
• Report project status to clients and hirify.global leadership to support effective decisions.

Requirements

• Significant software engineering experience as a Senior Engineer leading projects and mentoring others or as a Technical Lead.
• Ideally, professional experience using Golang.
• Experience working directly with clients or customers to understand technical requirements.
• Experience leading software engineering teams through technical delivery, with direct line-management or mentoring experience.
• Deep understanding of agile ways of working, software development best practices, design patterns, test-driven development, and testing practices.
• Deep understanding of version-control tools such as Git.
• Understanding of DevOps practices and cloud technologies including AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Understanding of operational concerns including monitoring, performance testing, security, accessibility, and GDPR.
• Empathy and strong people skills.
• Financial services industry experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with additional languages such as JavaScript or Python.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent, full-time remote work with flexible scheduling and occasional UK client-site travel.
• 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays, sick leave, marriage leave, and other leave provisions.
• Annual company bonus linked to company performance.
• Remote-working allowance of up to €1250 every two years, plus essential equipment.
• Training and development allowance, private healthcare, pension matching of up to 5%, income protection, and death-in-service insurance.

Hiring process

• 30-minute Talent Call via Zoom.
• 90-minute Technical Lead Assessment via Zoom covering architecture design, technical implementation, code standards, and feedback.
• 45-minute Hiring Manager Interview via Zoom; an additional client interview may be required depending on the project.