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Company Description

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Job Description

Our client is a global company in the video-game industry whose tools are used by game studios worldwide. You’ll be 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.

Project length: 6 months, with possible extension
Time zone: UTC+4 (European working hours). Overlap is required. 

Qualifications

 Expectations - the experience you need

• 90% English written and oral (at least B2 level) with excellent communication skills.
• Experience in backend engineering: 3+ years, including 2+ years with Go
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or a similar messaging platform
• Solid knowledge of REST and/or gRPC APIs
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and working with Docker
• Working knowledge of Google Cloud or another public cloud
• Proficiency with PostgreSQL and Redis
• Must overlap European / UTC+4 working hours

What you will do

• 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

Additional Information

Nice to have:

• Kubernetes (GKE) and Terraform
• Datadog or similar observability tooling
• Internal platforms, SDKs or developer tooling
• Gaming or LiveOps background