🕒 3 days ago
Build and own high-throughput Go services that ingest, transform, and route industrial telemetry, optimizing real-time data pipelines for performance, reliability, and production use across cloud and edge environments.
[8XS] Senior Software Engineer – Go
🕒 2 days ago
GoKafkaDistributed SystemsEvent-driven Systems
📜 Description
- Design plugin APIs, lifecycle, versioning, and backward compatibility.
- Build scalable core platform services in Go.
- Integrate with Kafka using idempotent processing and safe retries.
- Implement failure detection, recovery, and graceful degradation.
- Design multi-tenant services with isolation between tenants and plugins.
- Deliver the first plugin end to end and establish standards for code review, testing, CI/CD, and observability.
🛠️ Requirements
- 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
- Plugin, extension or SDK architecture
Full job description
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
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