Team Lead - Backend (Go)

Stream

Posted on : 24-08-2025

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Job Location

Amsterdam - Netherlands

Monthly Salary

€ 100000 - 160000

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1 Vacancy

Posted on : 24-08-2025

Job Description

We are looking for a Team Lead to join our Chat team in Amsterdam! Stream uses Go for our video SFU & chat API. We power chat for many large apps like Strava Nextdoor Patreon IBM Adobe and addition to Go we use CockroachDB/Postgres RocksDB Raft and Redis.

We are willing to train you on Go if youre experienced on a different tech stack (we have a 10-week internal onboarding program focused on Go scalability etc.). Solid engineering experience and motivation to learn is more relevant than prior experience with the language.

This role is open to Amsterdam (relocation and Visa sponsorship available).

Hybrid policy: applicants based in the Netherlands or relocating here are expected to work in the office in Amsterdam 3 times per week. Exemptions may apply to specific cases.

To get a feel for what we do you can have a look at our API tour: Stream

High scale/ difficult engineering
Default alive. Startup growth opportunity with healthy revenue
Strong engineering culture. Engineering is what makes us succeed
All managers are hands-on and capable engineers
Edge network of servers around the world
Great opportunity to learn and grow
Raised $58M from leading VCs (Felicis Ventures Notable Capital Techstars Arthur Ventures) including backers like Dick Costolo (01 Advisors ex-CEO of Twitter) Olivier Pomel (CEO of Datadog) Tom Preston-Werner (Co-Founder of GitHub) Nicolas Dessaigne (Co-Founder of Algolia)

About You

This role requires at least 8 years of backend engineering experience and 2 years of leadership experience. Were looking with someone with experience in 2 out of these 3 areas:

Experience with Go
Scalability/database/Redis experience
Experience with SDK development/ React/Swift/Compose etc.

As a Team Lead you will spend your time on engineering by setting the technical direction managing sprints and leading a team of 12 direct reports. You will also have the opportunity to work closely with other team leads and product leaders at the company

Bonus points for:

Experience with AWS or other cloud provider
Python (our AI runs on Python) and Rust experience
Message queues experience
Full text search experience
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field
WebRTC experience

What we have to offer you

Salary Range: 100000 to 160000 EUR depending on Seniority level and location.
We are hiring across a variety of seniority levels from Staff Principal and Lead positions to Director-level roles and above. The exact budget will be determined based on your experience level and location.

Stream employees enjoy some of the best job benefits in the industry:

A team of exceptional (and friendly) engineers
The chance to work on OSS projects
28 days paid time off plus paid Dutch holidays
Company equity
A pension scheme
A Learning and Development budget
Commute expenses to Amsterdam covered or the option to use a company bike within the city
Fitness stipend
Monthly in-office chair massages by a professional
MacBook Pro
Healthy team lunches and plenty of snacks
A generous relocation package
An office in the heart of Amsterdam
Note: this list of job benefits applies to Netherlands-based employees and is adjusted per your location of residence.
Our culture
Stream has a casual social culture our team is diverse and we all have different backgrounds. Now Stream is a team of over 120 peers from over 35 countries across the globe.
We value transparency aim for excellence and support each other on our way to new victories.
Our team consists of the strongest talents worldwide making Stream a great place to learn and improve your skills.
When it comes to software engineering jobs our culture is oriented towards ownership and quality: our goal is to deliver stable software.
If you are interested in becoming a part of what we do apply for this vacancy now!

Hybrid office policy: applicants based (or relocating to) one of our office locations are expected to work according to the applicable local office attendance policy.

Equal opportunity employer statement: Stream provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

Note for external recruiters: We currently have this role covered and do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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