/Tech Lead (Golang expertise)

Tech Lead (Golang expertise)

Rotterdam, Nederland, NLnlvia direct
// Job Type
Full Time
// Salary
Not disclosed
// Posted
3 months ago

About the Role

<p class="MsoNormal"><span><strong>We are Last Mile Solutions</strong></span></p><p><span>With over 360.000 charging stations and 1.9 million charging cards across 22 countries, Last Mile Solutions is Europe’s largest independent e-mobility platform. The scale behind these numbers results in massive real-time data flows and high-volume transaction processing. <br><br>Our mission is simplifying the energy transition and creating a sustainable world by turning energy into value. <br>We’re currently searching for a Tech Lead to join our team in Rotterdam. <br><br><strong>Our core values:</strong></span></p><ul><li><p>Empowering connections</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Exploring with purpose</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Owning our impact</p></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><strong>Your role</strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>As a Tech Lead you operate beyond senior level, you will drive the technical direction of our CPO team. You guide architecture and implementation while remaining hands-on. You play an important role in raising the bar for engineering quality and helping your team deliver scalable, reliable software, without formal people management responsibilities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>In a compact, fast-growing team, we develop software for the next generation of E-mobility solutions. That means not just building applications, but contributing to a growing platform and team, with all the associated challenges.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Your impact is primarily within your team, with opportunities to contribute to broader technical or people leading direction as you grow.<br><br></span></p><p><strong>Your main responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li><p><span>Take ownership of the full lifecycle of your team’s products:</span><br><span>- Understanding the underlying problem</span><br><span>- Designing pragmatic and scalable solutions</span><br><span>- Implementing, testing, and releasing features.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Drive technical direction within the team, making architecture and design decisions that balance speed, scalability, and maintainability of our financial SaaS platform.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Leading through technical excellence and example rather than formal authority.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Drive adoption of AI tooling and practices within the team, ensuring effectiveness and responsible use.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Stay hands-on in development, contributing significantly to the codebase.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Ensure code quality through reviews, best practices, and a strong focus on testing (including edge cases and usability).</span></p></li><li><p><span>Monitor and operate systems in production, using observability tools to identify issues so we can continuously improve reliability.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Collaborate with Platform Engineering to adopt and improve shared systems, CI/CD pipelines, and developer experience.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Mentor engineers within your team, helping them grow in technical skills, ownership, and engineering mindset.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Contribute to improving engineering standards, ways of working, and technical decision-making within the team.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Translate product goals into clear technical approaches and execution plans.<br></span></p></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><strong>You recognize yourself in</strong></p><ul><li><p><span>A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent through experience).</span></p></li></ul><ul><li><p><span>At least 8 years of work experience in the position of Backend Software Engineer in an agile organization, preferably product-led.</span></p></li></ul><ul><li><p><span>You think in distributed systems. You've designed or maintained asynchronous, event-driven architectures and know how to handle high-throughput, high-load scenarios with confidence. Working with cloud infrastructure (particularly AWS services like SQS) feels natural to you, and you understand the trade-offs between different messaging and queuing patterns.</span></p></li></ul><ul><li><p><span>You're experienced in using Go and you know your way around both relational databases and NoSQL stores like Redis.</span></p></li></ul><ul><li><p><span>Containers are part of your daily workflow. Experience with Docker is a must. Experience with CI/CD pipelines and broader DevOps practices are a genuine plus.</span></p></li></ul><ul><li><p><span>You are not daunted by breaking down monoliths and legacy code into macro-services, refactoring existing code and improving quality.</span></p></li></ul><ul><li><p><span>You are keen to iterate on code, develop and improve long-lived products as well as resolving performance gaps. You enjoy working in a young, fast-paced, fast-growth environment.</span></p></li></ul><ul><li><p><span>You are proactive and a quick learner and want to continuously improve yourself.</span></p></li></ul><ul><li><p><span>You have an excellent command of the English language and you recognize yourself in our core values.</span><br></p></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><span><strong>What we offer</strong></span></p><ul><li class="MsoNormal"><p><span>A great challenge in the dynamic and sustainable sector of E-Mobility</span></p></li></ul><ul><li class="MsoNormal"><p><span>Ambitious colleagues as sparring partners</span></p></li></ul><ul><li class="MsoNormal"><p><span>Training and development opportunities in an international environment</span></p></li></ul><ul><li class="MsoNormal"><p><span>25 vacation days and 13 ATV days</span></p></li></ul><ul><li class="MsoNormal"><p><span>A pension plan</span></p></li></ul><ul><li class="MsoNormal"><p><span>A bonus scheme</span></p></li></ul><ul><li class="MsoNormal"><p><span>Flexibility in working hours but also between remote and office work</span></p></li></ul><ul><li class="MsoNormal"><p><span>Full reimbursement of public transport costs or a mileage allowance and a parking pass</span></p></li></ul><ul><li class="MsoNormal"><p><span>If you work at the office, a cozy office at a top location in Rotterdam</span></p></li></ul><ul><li class="MsoNormal"><p><span>Daily free lunched in our rooftop bistro</span></p></li></ul><ul><li class="MsoNormal"><p><span>Regular social events</span></p></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><strong>Interested?</strong> <br>Apply here. Or if you have a question, please contact Recruitment via </span><a target="_blank" href="mailto:jobs@lastmilesolutions.com"><span>jobs@lastmilesolutions.com</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><em>*A VOG (Certificate of Conduct)/Screening will be part of the recruitment procedure.</em></span></p><p></p>

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