Golang Engineer – Senior

Overview:

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

About Product:

Prediction Markets:

The SOFTSWISS Prediction Markets Platform team develops a software solution that lets operators offer fixed-odds markets on real-world events.
You’ll work with engineers, product specialists, and operations teams on market management tools, integrations, settlement workflows, and the platform capabilities behind them. The team builds reliable systems, adapts the product to regulatory and market requirements, and supports partners across multiple jurisdictions.

Purpose of the role:

You’ll design and build scalable backend solutions in Go, helping to shape the architecture of a high-load, business-critical system.
You’ll collaborate closely with the team, contribute to strategic technical decisions, and ensure code quality through thoughtful reviews and clean, testable implementation.
Your deep understanding of system internals, distributed architecture, and data integrity will drive reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborating within a team using the Scrum methodology and participating in planning your own workflow
• Engaging in architectural, infrastructure, and other strategic decision-making processes
• Conducting code reviews for other team members and documenting your own code

Required Experience:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• At least 4 years of recent programming experience with Go as the primary language
• Hands-on experience with betting-related products is a must
• Strong understanding of Go internals: data structures, multithreading, memory management, garbage collection, etc.
• Experience with relational databases, including the ability to write and optimize complex SQL queries
• Solid knowledge of Linux and an understanding of containerization (we use Docker)
• Ability to write testable code and corresponding unit tests
• Experience working with Kafka and Kubernetes
• English – Intermediate
• Russian – Upper-Intermediate

Nice to have:

• Experience in developing applications in finance or other fields where data integrity is a key requirement
• Understanding the principles of distributed applications and microservice architecture
• Familiarity with one or more modern approaches to back-end application design (e.g., DDD, Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture)
• Experience with PostgreSQL and Clickhouse