
Staff Engineer / Team Lead - Identity at Jobgether. This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Staff Engineer / Team Lead - Identity in EMEA - North America.. This role offers the opportunity to lead and scale identity and risk management systems that support millions of users in a high-growth, global financial technology environment. As a Staff Engineer and Team Lead, you will own the architecture and implementation of critical backend services while mentoring engineers and influencing product strategy. You will work in a collaborative, cross-functional environment, solving complex technical challenges and driving initiatives with global impact. This role demands technical excellence, strategic thinking, and the ability to balance immediate delivery with long-term architectural vision. The position is highly autonomous, allowing you to shape solutions and define goals while contributing to the evolution of the identity platform.. . Accountabilities. As Staff Engineer / Team Lead - Identity, you will:. . Own end-to-end architecture for the identity suite, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and modularity.. . Lead technical planning, sprint scoping, and alignment with cross-functional product teams.. . Mentor and guide senior and mid-level engineers, promoting best practices and engineering standards.. . Set and uphold standards for code quality, observability, performance, and reliability.. . Contribute to core systems that enable global financial identity verification and risk management.. . Implement backend services and design architecture for high reliability and automation.. . Take proactive ownership of tasks, address technical challenges, and propose innovative solutions.. . Participate in code reviews, incident troubleshooting, and on-call support as required.. . . The ideal candidate will have:. . 10+ years of backend engineering experience, with 4+ years in a lead or team lead role.. . Proven expertise designing and scaling complex distributed systems, preferably in Go.. . Experience managing and maintaining large codebases and microservices architectures.. . Strong knowledge of relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.. . Proficiency with cloud platforms, ideally Google Cloud Platform.. . Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Kubernetes.. . Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.. . Experience mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional projects.. . Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive mindset, with a preference for simple, elegant solutions.. . Ability to translate business requirements into scalable, flexible implementations.. . Nice-to-Haves:. . Experience in the finance industry or financial identity management (e.g., KYC).. . Experience with messaging queues and message brokers.. . Experience integrating with external services.. . Remote work experience and startup environment familiarity.. . DevOps mindset.. . Company Location: United States.