Technical Lead (GO)

At CV-Library, we have a simple vision: to help the world to work and we are looking for exceptional and talented people to help us realise this vision in both UK and overseas markets. We are in a period of focused internal investment, following a year of key strategic acquisitions and significant investment across all parts of the business from Tech and Data to People and HR, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us or a better place to grow your career! The Role Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00-17:30 Location: Fleet Working Pattern: Hybrid – 2 days per quarter on site We are looking for a Technical Lead (Go) to join our team and help with the design and delivery of high-quality, scalable backend systems. This role is perfect for someone with deep, hands-on expertise in Go who is ready to take ownership of technical direction, drive architectural decisions and contribute to meaningful engineering challenges. If you’re passionate about writing clean, performant code, defining engineering standards and working with modern cloud-native technologies within a strong team, we’d love to hear from you! Responsibilities: Design and develop high-performance backend services and APIs using Go, ensuring reliability, scalability and consistency across distributed systems Lead architectural discussions and technical approaches that ensure long-term maintainability and scalability Define and enforce coding standards, best practices and guidelines to promote consistency, readability and code quality across the team Conduct thorough code reviews and provide constructive, actionable feedback, driving continuous improvement in engineering quality Serve as the go-to technical authority for resolving complex engineering challenges, offering deep expertise in Go, distributed systems and cloud-native infrastructure Evaluate technical requirements and constraints, identifying optimal solutions that balance performance, scalability, security and business objectives Design and maintain RESTful APIs and gRPC services, ensuring clear contracts, versioning discipline and robust error handling Collaborate closely with product managers, designers and other engineers to translate requirements into scalable, production-ready technical solutions Champion best practices around CI/CD, testing strategies and deployment pipelines, embedding quality into every stage of the development lifecycle Stay current with the Go ecosystem and cloud-native tooling, proactively evaluating new approaches to continuously raise the engineering bar What we’re looking for Deep expertise in Go and a strong understanding of backend engineering best practices for building distributed, high-performance systems Proven experience leading technical design and architecture decisions across complex backend projects Strong experience designing and building RESTful APIs and gRPC services at scale Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, preferably with GitHub Actions or similar tooling Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes or equivalent container orchestration platforms Excellent problem-solving skills and a structured, pragmatic approach to system design, including trade-off analysis and long-term thinking Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate technical decisions clearly to both engineering peers and non-technical stakeholders Comfortable working across codebases and services built by different teams, bringing clarity and consistency to complex technical landscapes We are actively committed to promoting a fully diverse and inclusive workforce and we welcome applications for this role from all candidates who meet the key requirements. Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you require any reasonable adjustments to assist with your application.