Backend Technical Lead | Cloud-Native | Golang

Our client is a large, established Singapore-headquartered group with a strong consumer and enterprise footprint. They are investing heavily in building a next-generation, large-scale connected platform that powers thousands of real-time, device-integrated transactions daily.
They are looking for a hands-on Backend Technical Lead to own the backend vision and engineering excellence for this fast-scaling platform. This is a high-impact, player-coach role at the intersection of software, IoT, and real-time systems.
The Role
You will be the technical anchor for the backend - driving architecture, end-to-end delivery, and operational maturity of a mission-critical, cloud-native platform. You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Infrastructure teams to build resilient, high-performance systems at scale.
What You Will Own & Drive

Define and evolve backend architecture, system design, and technical roadmap for a distributed, high-traffic platform

Own end-to-end delivery of backend services - from design to deployment to production ownership

Build for high availability, performance, and security

Champion engineering best practices through design reviews, code quality, and pragmatic build-vs-scale decisions

Architect and scale event-driven and asynchronous workflows for real-time operations

Drive database performance, indexing strategy, and cost optimization

Lead production troubleshooting, incident management and root cause analysis

Partner with DevOps to strengthen CI/CD, observability, monitoring and reliability

Mentor engineers and lead technical initiatives across teams

What You Will Bring

Strong hands-on experience in Golang building production-grade systems; Java exposure is a plus

Deep understanding of concurrency, performance profiling and optimization

Proven experience designing scalable REST APIs and complex system-to-system integrations

Strong SQL expertise with PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS

Experience with event streaming systems like Kafka and real-time protocols like WebSockets / MQTT

Experience debugging and operating production systems at scale

Hands-on with cloud-native stacks - AWS or Azure, Docker, Kubernetes

Solid grasp of distributed systems, scalability patterns and failure handling

Prior experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives

Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or similar) and observability tools (Datadog, Sentry etc.)

Experience in high-throughput, real-time, or transaction-heavy platforms

Good to Have

Exposure to IoT, connected devices, or mobility platforms

Familiarity with industry-standard device communication protocols

Experience with payment / billing workflows or distributed device-integrated systems

Originally posted on Himalayas