Senior Software Engineer – Go

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! 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