Senior Software Engineer – Go

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!