AI-first Golang Team Lead Golang Engineer

Hi!

Looking for an AI-first Golang Team Lead Golang Engineer (ASAP)

(Please send candidates only with the relevant skills specified in the white-label CVs!)

Workload: full-time, 40 hours per week Start: asap but can be discussed Duration: long-term Location: any remote, preferably within ±3 hours of CET English: B2-C1 Budget: up to 33-34 USD per hour

We are looking for a highly capable AI-First Golang Team Lead Engineer to join a project where they'll build an AI tourism platform. This is not a traditional coding role. We don’t need coders; we need engineers who build features end-to-end using AI coding tools (Claude Code preferably!).

Details:

• CRITICAL: 2-3+ years of technical leadership experience leading a team, squad, pod, or similar unit (a hard must). Demonstrable experience of leading delivery within a team: coordinating, breaking work down, representing the team in planning and stakeholder conversations, facilitating outcomes.
• CRITICAL: Senior Golang Developer, 5+ years of experience
• CRITICAL: AI-first delivery: proven, demonstrable experience using Claude Code or similar agentic AI tools is a hard must (specific examples expected on the application).
• CRITICAL: Strong proficiency in English (Upper-intermediate level or Advanced)
• Hands-on engineering position
• Not a people-management role

Information about the project& company: AI tourism platform looking for a Team Lead Product Engineer who uses AI to ship fast.

Our stack: Backend: Go monorepo (no framework, 3+ services) Hosting: PaaS-managed containers, local setup fully mirrors production via Docker Compose Tools: Jaeger tracing, Betterstack (Logging, Alerting), Redis Asynq queue Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis AI tooling: Claude Code (mandatory)

Products you will lead a pod on: ● An AI search & recommendation engine for major travel enterprises: heavy client integration work (SSO, security reviews, GDS integrations) with demanding enterprise customers ● A content enrichment API: high-scale, data- and AI-focused backend work ● Partner and supplier integrations, data ingestion pipelines, LLM providers

You must have: ● 2-3+ years of technical leadership experience leading a team, squad, pod or similar unit (a hard must, think team lead or early-stage engineering manager) ● A developer's background (5 years minimum): you have seen production reality with your own hands before moving towards leading people ● A genuinely product-driven mindset: you think about user value and business outcomes before implementation ● Comfort facilitating and coordinating a pod without relying on formal authority ● Willingness and ability to take part in client meetings and act as the external face of your pod ● Excellent spoken and written English for planning sessions, stakeholder updates and client conversations ● Ownership mentality with a strive for elegantly simple, high-quality solutions; you test your own work thoroughly since we have no QA team

• Proven experience using Claude Code; share specific examples
• ⚠️ European or African time zones (±3 hours from CET)
• Available full-time (40 hours/week). Must-Have Requirements (Team Lead — no flexibility on any)
• Go (Golang): Real production experience, not just personal projects. No flexibility on other technologies.
• AI/backend engineering: Deep knowledge of building and productionizing complex AI systems — observability, reliability, quality
• English communication: Very strong, given client-facing responsibilities

-Client-facing responsibilities begin from onboarding, with full client-facing ownership expected to grow over time Also, they will have on-call duties (now it’s during working hours and weekends, rotation among team members, but later they want to have 24/7 on call, so one person will be on-call for 24 hours (probably) and it will be compensated extra). Desirable skills (would be a benefit): Any special requirements for the person