Software Mind develops solutions that make an impact for companies around the globe. Tech giants & unicorns, transformative projects, emerging technologies and limitless opportunities – these are a few words that describe an average day for us. Building cross-functional engineering teams that take ownership and crave more means we’re always on the lookout for talented people who bring passion and creativity to every project. Our culture embraces openness, acts with respect, shows grit & guts and combines employment with enjoyment.
Project – the aim you’ll have
Our client is a global video-game commerce company whose payments and monetization tools are used by leading game studios worldwide. Software Mind is 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.
Role – how you’ll contribute
- 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
Expectations – the experience you need
- 5+ years of backend engineering, 3+ years with Go in production
- Distributed systems at high scale, including Kafka or a similar streaming platform
- Eventual consistency, idempotency, retries and failure recovery in event-driven systems
- Strong Go concurrency and performance tuning skills
- Experience with multi-tenant systems and tenant isolation
- API and contract design with REST and/or gRPC, including versioning
- Google Cloud (or another public cloud), PostgreSQL and Redis
- Fluent English (B2+)
Additional skills – the edge you have
- Plugin, extension or SDK architecture
- Outbox, saga or exactly-once processing patterns
- Gaming, iGaming or LiveOps background
- Kubernetes (GKE) and Datadog
What we offer:
- Flexible and remote cooperation options
- International projects with leading global clients
- Travels related to international projects
- Non-corporate atmosphere
- Access* to language classes
- Access* to knowledge-sharing initiatives
- Access* to private healthcare and life insurance
- Access* to multisport card
*The availability and terms of individual benefits may vary depending on the chosen form of cooperation.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience
- 3+ years of production experience with Go
- Experience with distributed systems at high scale
- Experience with Kafka or a similar streaming platform
- Experience with eventual consistency, idempotency, retries, and failure recovery in event-driven systems
- Strong Go concurrency and performance tuning skills
- Experience with multi-tenant systems and tenant isolation
- API and contract design experience with REST and/or gRPC, including versioning
- Experience with Google Cloud or another public cloud
- Experience with PostgreSQL and Redis
- Fluent English at B2 level or higher
- Plugin, extension, or SDK architecture experience
- Experience with outbox, saga, or exactly-once processing patterns
- Gaming, iGaming, or LiveOps experience
- Kubernetes, GKE, and Datadog experience
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Flexible Benefits — Remote or hybrid options are prominently highlighted, and a remote‑work program is publicly noted alongside positively cited work‑from‑home experiences. Flexibility around schedules and location is presented as part of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Private medical care, language classes, sports/fitness support, and learning initiatives are listed for several Central/Eastern European locations, with occasional workation perks promoted. These lifestyle‑oriented offerings complement base pay and can enhance perceived total rewards.
Software Mind Insights
What We Do
Software Mind is a global digital transformation partner with operations throughout Europe, the US and LATAM. Driven by tech and empowered by people, we provide companies with software engineers and autonomous, cross-functional development teams who manage software life cycles from ideation to release and beyond. For over 20 years we’ve been enriching organizations with the talent they need to boost scalability, drive dynamic growth and bring disruptive ideas to life. Our top-notch engineering teams combine ownership with leading technologies, including cloud, AI, data science and embedded software to accelerate digital transformations and boost software delivery. A culture, driven by trust, that embraces openness, craves more and acts with respect enables our experts to create evolutive solutions that support scale-ups, unicorns and enterprise-level companies around the world.
