Lead Software Engineer (Golang/TypeScript/React)

Lead Software Engineer (Golang/TypeScript/React) Lead Software Engineer (Golang/TypeScript/React) Mexico City, Mexico – remote. Please note that while this role is remote, we require team members to be based in this region for periodic in-person meet-ups. Typical hours are Monday-Friday, working 9-5 EST/EDT, with potential on-call support required We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our team, taking technical ownership of a high-impact, customer-facing product, which some of the world's biggest companies, central banks and non-governmental organisations use to build revenue and volume through data and analytics. This is an opportunity to influence technical direction, elevate engineering standards and deliver features that make a meaningful difference to our clients. What success looks like in this role: Taking responsibility for the quality of the code and architecture delivered by your team Influencing, coaching and line managing the team engineers Aligning your team on goals, outcomes and timelines Collaborating with Product and Technology teams to translate our strategic roadmap into actionable tasks; providing visibility on delivery progress outside your team Designing, developing, testing, maintaining and enhancing the Golang microservices and frontend applications you're responsible for Delivering beautiful, performant interfaces, driven by our design system, for our customers Improving the performance and observability of our services and applications Improving the quality of life of your team and the business, through automation, process improvement or new technologies About the team: You will join a technical team of approximately 30 technologists with a key purpose of continuously and reliably collecting large amounts of financial data describing cross-border payments, then processing the data, verifying its quality and serving it to our users so that they can make informed business decisions A typical team contains around three engineers and a Product Manager You will be interacting with various stakeholders across the business in addition to your immediate team You should apply if you can confidently: Line manage a team, coaching them to reach your level of expertise Write Golang services and web app backends, and deploy them in Docker containers Write performant SQL Build beautiful, componentised application frontends in React/TypeScript Understand clean code principles and the language idioms of TypeScript and Go, experience reviewing code using these principles and establishing team quality standards Learn and engage with a new business domain and product Communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical people Talk about how you learn and improve your skills These skills will help, but aren’t essential: Applications with concurrent logic (i.e. goroutines) Building CI/CD pipelines, especially with GitLab CI Configuring and using observability tools (e.g. Prometheus and Grafana) Experience utilising AI to increase productivity and efficiency of work and productionised AI tools MaterialUI Using Airflow, Python, Terrafrom Tech Stack: Golang, TypeScript, React, MaterialUI, MariaDB, Clickhouse, Gitlab, AWS, SQL AI Usage Disclaimer: At FXC Intelligence, we are enthusiastic about the use of AI tools and value candidates with experience or interest in AI technologies. However, we kindly ask that candidates refrain from using AI tools during interviews or for technical tasks unless explicitly instructed by us. This is because we want to understand your thought process and approach to tasks. If AI assistance is used in tasks or interviews where it was not permitted and is detected, the submission may be discounted. About us: FXC Intelligence is a leading provider of cross-border payments data and intelligence, providing some of the world's biggest companies, central banks and non-governmental organisations with the strategic insights, expertise and awareness to effectively compete in their chosen markets. By joining us, you will be diving into a world of data-driven exploration and innovation, revolutionising financial insights through cutting-edge technologies, machine learning and predictive analytics. Your contributions will shape the future of cross-border finance, helping clients to uncover better paths to growth and profitability, as well as being a trusted reference and source for many of the leading international publications. We are proud to produce industry-changing data and intelligence, aided by our company values of being customer-focused, taking ownership, knowledge, communication and leadership. We’re an innovative company that strives to look after its team, and we take pride in providing a positive company culture. Feel free to check out our Blog , Instagram , and Glassdoor pages to learn more about our culture and hear directly from our team about what it's really like to work with us! At FXC Intelligence, we believe in embracing diversity in all forms and fostering an inclusive environment. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran status, neurodiversity status or disability status. Department Technology Locations Mexico City Remote status Fully Remote About FXC Intelligence Join a team innovating the world of global payments and empowering our clients to impact the financial world. We’re enabling innovation in the world of global payments, working with enterprise-grade clients that include some of the world’s biggest technology companies and financial organisations