Golang / Go Job: Team Lead Engineering

Team Lead Engineering at Hygraph

Remote › 🇪🇺 100% remote position (in European timezone)   (Posted Mar 8 2024)

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Job description
Purpose of your role as an Engineering Team Lead
As an Engineering Team Lead, you will be working alongside other engineers and collaborating with product stakeholders, making sure work is planned, delivered incrementally, and with quality built-in. You will support and coach other engineers, actively enabling them to grow based on their particular interests.

Our tech stack
TypeScript, Node.js, React, Golang, PSQL
GraphQL, REST
Pulumi, AWS, Vercel, Cloudflare, Fastly, New Relic, Github actions

What you'll do:
Collaborate closely with product stakeholders to prioritize and plan projects that add real value to our users
Work with the team on strategy and execution, delivering testable, maintainable, and high-quality solutions
Help engineers identify and grow in their areas of interest by coaching, mentoring, and giving timely feedback
Participate in and identify architectural improvements, prioritize and act on them
Bring creative ideas and expertise to the table, having a real impact on our product and engineering practices
Work in an environment that supports your individual growth

Expectations timeline
1 Month
You have gone through different onboarding sessions covering our product, current architecture, and relevant services we run on production, learned about the company's origin and current vision, and met colleagues from different departments as part of onboarding as well as weekly virtual social events.

You'd have started to get to know your teammates, learned how we work daily and contributed to our codebase.

3 Months
You will be familiar with most concepts related to our product and worked alongside your teammates to deliver features and improvements on production successfully.

You'd have had a few 1:1s with your team members to check in on how things are going and you will have collaborated with fellow engineers to improve our architecture and developer experience.

6 Months
You will have made solid contributions to our product and stack, influenced our ways of working, shared knowledge and previous experiences, helping substantially with important decision-making.

Job requirements
What we expect from you:
8+ years of backend development experience, ideally using Golang
Experience writing testable code, following best practices and design patterns when applicable
Experience developing APIs, ideally using GraphQL and/or REST
Mindful about performance and able to measure it meaningfully
Strong expertise in analyzing product requirements and creating technical designs
Experience mentoring and coaching other teammates to grow and improve continuously
At least 2 years of experience leading a team, covering people and delivery management
Strong collaboration and communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to take ownership, but also ask for help and advice when needed
Openness to feedback and willingness to learn, reflect, and grow within the organization
Experience in successfully driving technical, business, and people-related initiatives that improved productivity, performance, and quality

The Process
Intro call with Talent Acquisition
Hiring Manager Interview
Technical Interview
Team Fit call
Reference Check and Offer

About us
At Hygraph we're building the leading GraphQL Federated Content Platform. Our goal is to enable developers and content operators to create, enrich, unify, and deliver content across platforms seamlessly. We are trusted to manage content for teams from over 50,000 organizations like Telenor, Burrow, Gamescom, and Shure. With over $10M in funding from OpenOcean, Peak, and Paua Ventures, you will be part of a remote-first and globally distributed team of over 60 colleagues, committed to working collaboratively, transparently, and passionately.

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