Senior Go Backend Engineer, LiveOps Platform (Remote)

Software Mind; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and remote cooperation

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Language classes

Knowledge-sharing initiatives

Private healthcare

Life insurance

Multisport card

Job summary

Software Mind in Kraków is seeking a backend engineer to join a LiveOps plugin platform project built with Go, Kafka and Google Cloud. You will design plugin contracts, implement scalable core services in Go, and ensure robust event processing with multi-tenancy isolation.

You will mentor mid-level engineers, set up CI/CD and observability standards, and collaborate with the client’s technical lead to deliver the first plugin end-to-end.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Go

Kafka

Google Cloud

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kubernetes

Datadog

REST

gRPC

Multi-tenant

Concurrency

Performance tuning

Event-driven

Tools

GKE

Kafka tooling

Datadog

Job description

Software Mind in Kraków is seeking a backend engineer to join a LiveOps plugin platform project built with Go, Kafka and Google Cloud. You will design plugin contracts, implement scalable core services in Go, and ensure robust event processing with multi-tenancy isolation.

You will mentor mid-level engineers, set up CI/CD and observability standards, and collaborate with the client’s technical lead to deliver the first plugin end-to-end.