Contract Description
Technical Lead
UK/EU - Fully Remote
9 month initial contract
Who are we?
We're a software development company building the world's Elastic Workforce, reinventing work and challenging the assumption that a local team = the best team.
We help businesses deliver technical projects better than ever before through our platform and on-demand Elastic Teams.
What's in it for you? Our mission is to create freelance jobs with more benefits than permanent.
Want to know more? read: https://distributed.co/about
About this role
As Tech Lead, you'll spearhead the technical direction of our cloud-native platform, focusing on architecture validation and technical discovery while leading a high-performing engineering team. You'll be responsible for ensuring robust integration patterns, performance optimisation, and technical excellence across our GCP-based infrastructure.
Your Responsibilities
- Lead architecture validation efforts, ensuring designs meet real-world gateway requirements
- Drive technical discovery initiatives and integration mapping across multiple protocols
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the engineering team
- Design and validate performance baselines for different message types
- Oversee configuration analysis and integration pattern development
- Establish technical standards and best practices for the platform
About You
We’re looking for passionate technologists who enjoy working in collaborative agile teams. You’ll need to be a clear, concise & engaging communicator with people on your team. We enjoy the big picture and the detail; we want people who excel at both.
- Extensive experience with GCP services, particularly GKE, Cloud Run, and Cloud Functions
- Strong background in Java development with additional expertise in Python/Go/TypeScript
- Deep understanding of NATS and message queue patterns
- Proven experience in financial services technical leadership
- Expert knowledge of infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform
- Track record of successful architecture validation and technical discovery projects
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