Senior Lead Golang Engineer (Melbourne, Australia)

Senior Lead Golang Engineer (Melbourne, Australia)

Golang

gRPC

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About the Role

This is a position through X-Team. As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will join an enterprise engineering squad within a leading Australian banking and financial services organization, working on a large-scale Open Banking and mobile platform ecosystem.
You will lead the modernization of core backend services, transitioning traditional batch processing toward real-time data polling and building highly resilient backend architecture that supports millions of customers.
You will work extensively with Go, Temporal, PostgreSQL, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, AWS, and Kubernetes, while collaborating closely with engineering teams and client stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable financial services.
This will require onsite work in Melbourne, Australia for stakeholder alignment. Candidates must be open to this initial onsite commitment.

Most Important

Backend Engineering: 5+ years of senior backend engineering experience with strong proficiency in Go (strongly preferred) or Java, particularly in high-concurrency and distributed environments.

Workflow Orchestration: Production experience with Temporal or equivalent durable workflow frameworks for distributed state, long-running processes, retries, and fault-tolerant execution.

Database & APIs: Strong PostgreSQL experience, including schema design and query optimization, along with deep experience designing gRPC / Protocol Buffers APIs.

Real-Time & Cloud: Experience transitioning batch architectures toward real-time data polling, event-driven processing, or streaming, with production experience on AWS / Kubernetes / EKS.

Security & Location: Experience building secure enterprise backend services and willingness to work onsite in Melbourne for the first 2-4 weeks, with appropriate Australian work authorization or a viable visa pathway.

Nice to Have

Financial Services: Experience with Open Banking, OAuth2 consent management, financial APIs, or secure financial transaction processing.

Infrastructure & Security: Experience with Terraform, Helm, Snyk, automated vulnerability scanning, security patching, or enterprise DevOps practices.

Platform Tooling: Experience with HashiCorp Vault for secrets management and LaunchDarkly for feature flags and progressive rollouts.

Mobile & Distributed Systems: Familiarity with client-side caching, offline-first synchronization, SQLite, or highly resilient distributed architectures.

Multi-Cloud & Testing: Exposure to AWS and GCP, along with strong shift-left testing, automation, and security practices.

Strong technical leadership skills with the ability to make sound architectural decisions and guide other engineers.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with confidence working directly with enterprise clients.

Strong ownership and problem-solving mindset, with a focus on reliability, scalability, resilience, and operational excellence.

Collaborative, pragmatic, and adaptable, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced enterprise engineering environment.

Security-conscious and proactive, with a strong commitment to quality, automation, continuous improvement, and enabling team success.

Our Hiring Process

May change based on various factors (role, profile completeness, etc).

1

Initial Interview

Our recruitment team will review your application and contact you if they'd like to proceed with an initial interview.

Duration: 1 week

2

Skills Assessment

After a successful initial interview, the next step will be an assessment of your technical skills in order to build an 'X-Profile' that we can share with the relevant partner.

Duration: 1 week

3

Interview with Our Partner

We'll schedule an interview for you to meet our partner, during which you'll get to know more details about the specific role you have been matched with.

Duration: 1 week

FAQ

X-Team is committed to providing the ultimate work experience for engineers.

Do you provide paid vacation?

X-Team doesn't offer paid vacation time, but can arrange for vacation time. We encourage you to incorporate vacation time, health insurance, etc into your hourly rate.

Will I be working full-time or part-time hours?

At X-Team, we only hire people who can fully dedicate themselves to a project. That means a standard 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday.

Do I need to take care of my own taxes?

Yes. Because we hire you as a full-time contractor, you'll need to take care of your own taxes. If this is your first time doing so, we recommend you get the advice of a qualified tax advisor to understand the requirements of your country.

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