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Job DescriptionOur 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.
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
Nice to have:
- Plugin, extension or SDK architecture
- Outbox, saga or exactly-once processing patterns
- Gaming, iGaming or LiveOps background
- Kubernetes (GKE) and Datadog
Skills Required
- At least B2-level English proficiency with excellent written and oral communication skills
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience
- 3+ years of production experience with Go
- Hands-on experience with high-scale distributed systems and Kafka or a similar streaming platform
- 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
- Knowledge of API and contract design using REST and/or gRPC, including versioning
- Working knowledge of Google Cloud or another public cloud, PostgreSQL, and Redis
- Availability to overlap European / UTC+4 working hours
- Plugin, extension, or SDK architecture experience
- Experience with outbox, saga, or exactly-once processing patterns
- Gaming, iGaming, or LiveOps background
- Kubernetes, GKE, and Datadog experience
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