Golang Team Lead

Overview:

SOFTSWISS continues to expand the team and is looking for a Golang Team Lead. We need a true, experienced and accomplished professional who shares our culture and values.

About Product:

SOFTSWISS Jackpot Aggregator

Multi-purpose iGaming solution that introduces the Jackpot-as-a-service business tool and integrates with any gaming project

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Key responsibilities:

• Lead the backend development team to design, develop and maintain high-quality, scalable, and reliable high loaded backend systems.
• Act as a point of reference for integrated systems.
• Continuously improve various aspects such as performance, usability, scalability of the system.
• Define and enforce coding standards, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
• Work with system engineers to ensure seamless deployment and maintenance of backend systems.
• Define and maintain backend development processes
• Decision maker with backend application tech questions
• Accountable for the backend development progress (e.g. statuses on the Jira board)
• Prepare/Supervise ADR and DevPlans
• Support technical roadmap up to date state
• Maintain and expand services observability (monitoring capability) in production
• React on production incidents, manage resolution process, mitigate future issues based on analysis
• 1-1 meetings with members from the backend team
• Support PDP (Personal Development Plans) creation for the backend team
• Stay current with the latest technologies, best practices, and tools in backend development.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of programming experience, using Go as the main language or 1+ year with Go and 5+ years of experience with compiled statically typed languages (e.g. C++)
• 2+ years in leadership role in a team of 5+ engineers (overall experience 5+ years)
• Strong communication skills, proven ability to build scalable team based on leadership
• Proficiency in Go ecosystem: data structures, multithreading, memory usage, garbage collection, etc.
• Experience in using relational databases (we use PostgreSQL), ability to write and optimize complex SQL queries
• Experience with distributed systems
• Understanding the principles of distributed applications and microservice architecture
• Good understanding of Linux, a good understanding of containerization (we use Docker)
• Ability to write testable code and unit tests for it
• Strong experience in Kafka (we use Kafka for internal and external transport)
• Experience in Kubernetes
• Communication skills, willingness to improve hard and soft skills

Nice to have:

• Experience with NoSQL (we use ScyllaDB) solutions
• Experience with high-load applications
• Experience in writing applications that work with finance or in other areas where data integrity is a key requirement
• Familiarity with one or more modern approaches to designing back-end applications (DDD, Clean architecture, Hexagonal architecture etc)
• English level В1-B2+

What we offer:

• Full-time remote work opportunities and flexible working hours
• Comprehensive Mental Health Programme
• Private insurance
• Sports program compensation
• Free online English lessons
• An additional 1 Day off per calendar year
• Generous referral program
• Training, internal workshops, and participation in international professional conferences and corporate events

About us:

SOFTSWISS is an international company, and an iGaming software expert. We don't only follow iGaming market trends, we create them! SOFTSWISS is a recognised industry leader in iGaming software solutions development, covering almost all aspects of the iGaming industry. The company has an international team and an official presence in several countries. Projects powered by SOFTSWISS receive numerous awards and accolades from industry media.

Our mission:

Changing the iGaming industry through technological innovation.