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+