[8XS] Senior Software Engineer – Go

Job Description

Our client is a global company in the video-game industry whose tools are used by game studios worldwide. You’ll be joining the client’s engineering team to build a new LiveOps plugin platform in Go, Kafka and Google Cloud, letting internal teams extend LiveOps through a strict plugin interface. You will work in a small Scrum team alongside the client’s technical lead.

 

Project length: 6 months, with possible extension
Time zone: UTC+4 (European working hours). Overlap is required. 

Qualifications

 Expectations - the experience you need

• 90% English written and oral (at least B2 level) with excellent communication skills.
• Proven background in backend engineering: 5+ years, including 3+ years with Go in production
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems at high scale, including Kafka or a similar streaming platform
• Strong understanding of eventual consistency, idempotency, retries and failure recovery in event-driven systems
• Proficiency in Go concurrency and performance tuning
• Experience with multi-tenant systems and tenant isolation
• Solid knowledge of API and contract design with REST and/or gRPC, including versioning
• Working knowledge of Google Cloud (or another public cloud), PostgreSQL and Redis
• Must overlap European / UTC+4 working hours

 

What you will do

• Design plugin contracts: APIs, lifecycle, versioning and backward compatibility
• Build scalable core platform services in Go
• Integrate with the Kafka event hub using idempotent processing and safe retries
• Implement failure detection, recovery and graceful degradation
• Design for multi-tenancy and isolation between tenants and plugins
• Deliver the first plugin (gacha / wheel-of-fortune) end to end
• Set standards for code review, testing, CI/CD and observability
• Mentor mid-level engineers and partner with the client’s technical lead

Additional Information

Nice to have:

• Plugin, extension or SDK architecture
• Outbox, saga or exactly-once processing patterns
• Gaming, iGaming or LiveOps background
• Kubernetes (GKE) and Datadog

Company Description

We are Software Mind, an awesome team of engineers who are ready to ramp up any top-notch company’s projects! Our aim? To always be one step ahead. Become part of a multicultural company in constant growth with an excellent work environment certified by Great Place To Work!