Job Description

Technical Lead

Department: Technology Delivery Hub&Scaling System

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Kazakhstan

Delivery Hub is one of inDrive’s business units responsible for building and scaling the delivery product, which is rapidly expanding into new markets and adopting an AI-first approach to engineering processes. We are looking for a Tech Lead who will combine hands-on engineering with leadership responsibilities: owning team delivery and execution, defining technical direction and ensuring solution quality, as well as supporting engineers’ growth through feedback, mentoring, and regular 1:1s under the guidance of an Engineering Manager or Unit Lead.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate business needs into technical strategy with measurable outcomes. Ensure alignment with the global company strategy
• Identify and propose architectural and technical improvements across product and platform, using data and trade-off analysis
• Advocate, present and defend technical solutions at the organisational level in collaboration with various stakeholders (Product, Data, Security, SRE ...)
• Participate in review product & technical strategies as a subject-matter expert
• Lead the process of technical research and implementation to create or improve services and systems
• Write clean, effective, and maintainable code based on company standards. Participate in improving company-wide code and review standards
• Take ownership and improve backend services development lifecycle (from RFCs to release and monitoring)
• Help engineers to develop and increase productivity
• Creating effective processes of knowledge sharing and collaborative work. Increases re-use of of best practice and knowledge sharing

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 6+ years of commercial backend engineering. With experience solving various complex problems in high load environment. Using a wide range of approaches and technologiesStrong knowledge of Go programming language. Knows and has applied advanced features of the Go language in practice
• Deep understanding of client–server interaction and how to make it efficient. Know specific features and limitations for various use cases
• Experience with designing and implementing sync and async inter-service and client-server communication according to efficiency and limitations, ensuring reasonable level of reliability
• Knows how to design and optimise databases applying data-driven approach. Practice knowledge of popular DB architectures, knows where better use SQL / NoSQL. Writes and optimises high-load queries
• Proven ability of design and implementation of full observability strategy, including metrics with dashboards, logging, tracing, system reliability. Incorporating practices for continuous maintenance of complex systems.
• Used in practice micro-service architecture patterns. Knows when and how to scale technical systems, when to apply vertical or horizontal scaling
• Strong knowledges of Kubernetes (or analogs) for app development and maintenance. Practical experience with practical using various cloud services (preferred with AWS).
• Continuously seeks and advocates technologies that improve problem solving and total cost/operability

Conditions & Benefits

• Stable salary, official employment.
• Health insurance.
• Hybrid work mode and flexible schedule.
• Relocation package offered for candidates from other regions.
• Access to professional counseling services including psychological, financial, and legal support.
• Discount club membership.
• Diverse internal training programs.
• Partially or fully paid additional training courses.
• All necessary work equipment.