GCP Architect / Tech Lead

Technical Lead

UK/EU - Fully Remote

9 month initial contract 

Who are we?

We're a software development company building the world's Elastic Workforce, reinventing work and challenging the assumption that a local team = the best team.

We help businesses deliver technical projects better than ever before through our platform and on-demand Elastic Teams™. 

What's in it for you? Our mission is to create freelance jobs with more benefits than permanent.

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About this role 

As Tech Lead, you'll spearhead the technical direction of our cloud-native platform, focusing on architecture validation and technical discovery while leading a high-performing engineering team. You'll be responsible for ensuring robust integration patterns, performance optimisation, and technical excellence across our GCP-based infrastructure.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead architecture validation efforts, ensuring designs meet real-world gateway requirements • Drive technical discovery initiatives and integration mapping across multiple protocols • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the engineering team • Design and validate performance baselines for different message types • Oversee configuration analysis and integration pattern development • Establish technical standards and best practices for the platform

About You

We’re looking for passionate technologists who enjoy working in collaborative agile teams. You’ll need to be a clear, concise & engaging communicator with people on your team. We enjoy the big picture and the detail; we want people who excel at both.

• Extensive experience with GCP services, particularly GKE, Cloud Run, and Cloud Functions • Strong background in Java development with additional expertise in Python/Go/TypeScript • Deep understanding of NATS and message queue patterns • Proven experience in financial services technical leadership • Expert knowledge of infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform • Track record of successful architecture validation and technical discovery projects

About us

Distributed is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Employees and contractors, as well as prospective employees and contractors, will all be treated equally and fairly. Distributed is committed to ensuring no less favourable treatment is experienced by any current or prospective employee because of any of the protected characteristics under the UK Equality Act 2010 or equivalent local equality legislation.

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