Technical Lead (Golang) - EMEA

Tyk is a company that offers a platform for API management, and they are looking for a Technical Lead who will own and advance all non-functional engineering capabilities across the organisation. The ideal candidate is a hands-on systems thinker, primarily coding in Go, who can design complex solutions, mentor engineers, and improve reliability and productivity through measurable impact.

Requirements

• Strong experience in software engineering with significant work on non-functional capabilities (observability, testing, CI/CD, reliability, developer productivity)
• Proven leadership experience driving technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams
• Deep knowledge of architectural frameworks and principles (e.g., TOGAF)
• Experience designing long-term target-state architectures and architectural blueprints
• Demonstrated success delivering measurable productivity, reliability, or efficiency improvements with quantified ROI
• Experience line-managing, mentoring, and coaching engineers
• Hands-on experience with both client- and server-side systems
• Strong understanding of cloud-native environments: Kubernetes, observability, CI/CD, testing at scale
• Experience in performance optimisation, test infrastructure, and quality automation
• Experience with IaC, automation frameworks, and modern software quality tooling

Benefits

• Unlimited paid holidays
• Total flexibility in hours
• Employee share scheme
• Generous maternity and paternity leave
• Volunteering Days
• Company retreats
• Employee Wellbeing platform