Software Engineer – Go (Mid Level)

About the role

Software Mind is recruiting on behalf of its client, a global video-game company whose tools are used by game studios worldwide. You will join the client's engineering team to build a new LiveOps plugin platform in Go, Kafka and Google Cloud, so that internal teams can extend LiveOps through a strict plugin interface. You will work in a small Scrum team alongside the client's technical lead. The project lasts 6 months, with possible extension, and requires overlapping European / UTC+4 working hours.

Key responsibilities

• Build Go services for plugin registration, configuration and runtime
• Implement the internal plugin registry and review flow
• Develop Kafka producers and consumers for the central event hub
• Build CI/CD pipelines from development to production
• Add metrics, logs and dashboards, and support production issues
• Create templates and tooling that help teams build plugins
• Write unit and integration tests with QA automation

Required profile

• 3+ years of backend engineering experience, including 2+ years with Go
• 90% English written and oral (at least B2 level) with excellent communication skills
• Overlap of European / UTC+4 working hours

Required skills

• Hands-on experience with Kafka or a similar messaging platform
• Solid knowledge of REST and/or gRPC APIs
• CI/CD pipelines and Docker
• PostgreSQL and Redis
• Nice to have: Kubernetes (GKE) and Terraform, Datadog or similar observability tooling, internal platforms, SDKs or developer tooling, gaming or LiveOps background