About this role
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
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Expectations - the experience you need
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90% English written and oral (at least B2 level) with excellent communication skills.
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Proven background in backend engineering: 5+ years, including 3+ years with Go in production
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Hands-on experience with distributed systems at high scale, including Kafka or a similar streaming platform
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Strong understanding of eventual consistency, idempotency, retries and failure recovery in event-driven systems
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Proficiency in Go concurrency and performance tuning
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Experience with multi-tenant systems and tenant isolation
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Solid knowledge of API and contract design with REST and/or gRPC, including versioning
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Working knowledge of Google Cloud (or another public cloud), PostgreSQL and Redis
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Must overlap European / UTC+4 working hours
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What you will do
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Design plugin contracts: APIs, lifecycle, versioning and backward compatibility
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Build scalable core platform services in Go
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Integrate with the Kafka event hub using idempotent processing and safe retries
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Implement failure detection, recovery and graceful degradation
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Design for multi-tenancy and isolation between tenants and plugins
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Deliver the first plugin (gacha / wheel-of-fortune) end to end
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Set standards for code review, testing, CI/CD and observability
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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