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.