Backend Engineer (Golang)

Location: Remote from Paris, Barcelona, Bucharest, Krakow, Tallinn, or Warsaw; based in or willing to relocate to Paris

Company

Consumer technology company focused on developing and publishing games and apps for a global audience.

What you will do

• Own and build backend-driven features for a live competitive game.
• Develop scalable systems for progression, events, competition, social features, and live operations.
• Collaborate with game designers, client developers, product, and data teams from feature design through launch and iteration.
• Design APIs, write infrastructure and backend code, and support client-side integration.
• Reuse and extend the backend platform while maintaining development speed and technical quality.
• Provide technical ownership and challenge product and design decisions when needed to ensure scalable, robust features.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of backend development experience.
• Extreme fluency in Golang, including at least 1 year of professional experience.
• Mastery of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience designing and operating high-scale systems, with strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals and Unix-like environments.
• Experience working in cross-functional agile teams and solving complex scalability, performance, and integration problems.
• Strong communication, analytical, autonomous working, and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to have

• Deep interest in game development.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement.
• Work in a small, high-performing studio team responsible for the game from ideas through testing.
• Opportunity to help evolve a successful casual game into a deeper, more competitive live game.
• Best-in-class compensation.
• Additional benefits according to the country of residence.