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Block Labs

Tech Lead, Golang

Block Labs
Portugal · Full-time · Mid-Senior

🏷️Title: Tech Lead, Golang

👫Department: Engineering

📍Location: UK or Europe, Remote

About Block Labs

Block Labs is a leading force in the Web3 space, incubating, investing in, and accelerating top-tier fintech, crypto and iGaming projects. With a mission to shape the future of decentralized technology, we partner with visionary startups to raise funding, refine product-market fit, and grow their audiences. Our diverse team drives innovation, using deep industry expertise and an extensive network to empower the next wave of blockchain-driven companies. At Block Labs, we’re passionate about turning bold ideas into breakthrough success.

We’re looking for a Tech Lead to join our growing Engineering team!

About The Role

As a Tech Lead, you will be working to give shape a performant, resilient and distributed platform based on Go and Laravel that will shake up the gaming space. You will form part of a cross-functional development team where the team owns and drives the continuous improvement of our products. This is a senior individual contributor role with adhoc mentorship and guidance across the squad.

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement new backend features on a scalable, self-healing platform.
  • Technical Guidance and Mentorship to team members, promoting best practices and a collaborative development environment.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and contribute to strategic architectural decisions.
  • Embrace a test-driven development approach to ensure robust code quality.
  • Craft code with performance, reliability, and maintainability as key priorities.
  • Conduct functional requirements analysis to ensure alignment with product goals.
  • Work closely with developers, QA, and product teams to deliver seamless solutions.
  • Track progress, issues, and requests through our project management tools for effective oversight.
  • Oversee individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables to meet team objectives.

Our Ideal Profile

  • Senior Developer / Engineer with deep hands-on technical expertise primarily within Golang
  • Tech Stack: Proficient in Go, with some familiarity of Laravel would be beneficial.
  • iGaming industry experience is a plus, but not essential to the role.

About You

  • You have over 6 years of experience as a backend software engineer
  • You are proficient in Go as a programming language; experience with gRPC is essential, and familiarity with Laravel and RoadRunner is a plus
  • You are familiar with DevOps practices and containerization technologies in cloud-based environments
  • You have experience with distributed systems and microservice architectures
  • You have a proven track record working with high-transactional systems
  • You are passionate about software quality and engineering, and you strive to make a difference
  • You have a strong command of both spoken and written English
  • A degree in Information Technology or a related field is considered an advantage

Key Skills

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Posted
Nov 13, 2024
Type
Full-time
Level
Mid-Senior
Location
Vila Real de Santo António
Company
Block Labs

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