Lead Software Engineer (Golang/TypeScript/React)
Mexico City, Mexico – remote
Typical hours are Monday-Friday, working 9-5 EST/EDT, with potential on-call support required
We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our team, taking technical ownership of a high-impact, customer-facing product, which some of the world's biggest companies, central banks and non-governmental organisations use to build revenue and volume through data and analytics. This is an opportunity to influence technical direction, elevate engineering standards and deliver features that make a meaningful difference to our clients.
Taking responsibility for the quality of the code and architecture delivered by your team
Influencing, coaching and line managing the team engineers
Aligning your team on goals, outcomes and timelines
Collaborating with Product and Technology teams to translate our strategic roadmap into actionable tasks; providing visibility on delivery progress outside your team
Designing, developing, testing, maintaining and enhancing the Golang microservices and frontend applications you're responsible for
Delivering beautiful, performant interfaces, driven by our design system, for our customers
You will join a technical team of approximately 30 technologists with a key purpose of continuously and reliably collecting large amounts of financial data describing cross-border payments, then processing the data, verifying its quality and serving it to our users so that they can make informed business decisions
A typical team contains around three engineers and a Product Manager
You will be interacting with various stakeholders across the business in addition to your immediate team
Write Golang services and web app backends, and deploy them in Docker containers
Write performant SQL
Build beautiful, componentised application frontends in React/TypeScript
Understand clean code principles and the language idioms of TypeScript and Go, experience reviewing code using these principles and establishing team quality standards
Learn and engage with a new business domain and product
Communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical people
Talk about how you learn and improve your skills
Applications with concurrent logic (i.e. goroutines)
Building CI/CD pipelines, especially with GitLab CI
Configuring and using observability tools (e.g. Prometheus and Grafana)
Experience utilising AI to increase productivity and efficiency of work and productionised AI tools
MaterialUI
Using Airflow, Python, Terrafrom
Golang, TypeScript, React, MaterialUI, MariaDB, Clickhouse, Gitlab, AWS, SQL
At FXC Intelligence, we are enthusiastic about the use of AI tools and value candidates with experience or interest in AI technologies. However, we kindly ask that candidates refrain from using AI tools during interviews or for technical tasks unless explicitly instructed by us. This is because we want to understand your thought process and approach to tasks. If AI assistance is used in tasks or interviews where it was not permitted and is detected, the submission may be discounted.
FXC Intelligence is a leading provider of cross-border payments data and intelligence, providing some of the world's biggest companies, central banks and non-governmental organisations with the strategic insights, expertise and awareness to effectively compete in their chosen markets. By joining us, you will be diving into a world of data-driven exploration and innovation, revolutionising financial insights through cutting-edge technologies, machine learning and predictive analytics.
Your contributions will shape the future of cross-border finance, helping clients to uncover better paths to growth and profitability, as well as being a trusted reference and source for many of the leading international publications.
We are proud to produce industry-changing data and intelligence, aided by our company values of being customer-focused, taking ownership, knowledge, communication and leadership.
We’re an innovative company that strives to look after its team, and we take pride in providing a positive company culture. Feel free to check out our Blog, Instagram, and Glassdoor pages to learn more about our culture and hear directly from our team about what it's really like to work with us!
At FXC Intelligence, we believe in embracing diversity in all forms and fostering an inclusive environment. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran status, neurodiversity status or disability status.
