Lead Backend Engineer (Go)

Globaldev Group is a team of professionals specializing in creating engineering teams for technological businesses for Western Europe, Israel, and the USA. Founded in 2010 in Kharkiv, the company expanded to Berlin in 2017 and currently employs 220 people with development hubs in Israel, Ukraine, Portugal, and Poland. They focus on long-term product teams for EU markets using a modern technology stack.

• Extensive experience in backend software development with Go
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservice architectures
• Experience building and operating high-performance, low-latency backend services
• Proven ability to identify, analyze, and resolve complex performance and scalability challenges
• Ability to work independently and drive initiatives from concept to production
• Strong communication skills and experience working closely with Product
• Leadership experience or strong potential and readiness to step into a technical leadership role

Nice to have:

• Experience with AdTech or Programmatic Advertising (auction mechanics, high-scale decisioning)
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, and cloud-native environments
• Familiarity with data-intensive applications, analytics platforms, and large-scale aggregations
• Understanding of Machine Learning concepts and production ML integrations
• Experience leading technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, or working with distributed external teams

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services in Go
• Analyze and optimize distributed systems and microservice-based architectures
• Drive engineering quality through code reviews, technical leadership, and best practices
• Contribute to architecture decisions, technology selection, and platform strategy
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions
• Work alongside Data Engineering and Machine Learning teams to integrate data-driven capabilities into bidder workflows
• Help establish a strong engineering culture built around ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement