Overview

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

• 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

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Home-office setup stipend for new hires (USD $500 one-time)
• Monthly remote work stipend (USD $150 via Brex Card)
• Opportunity to work on globally impactful systems and identity platforms
• Exposure to cross-functional collaboration, mentorship, and leadership opportunities
• Dynamic, remote-friendly work environment with global colleagues

Jobgether is a Talent Matching Platform that partners with companies worldwide to efficiently connect top talent with the right opportunities through AI-driven job matching.

When you apply, your profile goes through our AI-powered screening process designed to identify top talent efficiently and fairly. Our AI evaluates your CV and LinkedIn profile thoroughly, analyzing your skills, experience, and achievements. It compares your profile to the job's core requirements and past success factors to determine your match score. Based on this analysis, we automatically shortlist the 3 candidates with the highest match to the role. When necessary, our human team may perform an additional manual review to ensure no strong profile is missed. The process is transparent, skills-based, and free of bias — focusing solely on your fit for the role. Once the shortlist is completed, we share it directly with the company that owns the job opening. The final decision and next steps (such as interviews or additional assessments) are then made by their internal hiring team.

Thank you for your interest!