Software Engineer

About win.com

We’re a remote-first, fast growing tech startup that brings together the excitement of gaming and the thrill of real money competitions encapsulated in an all-in-one bite-sized entertainment experience.

WIN helps developers tap into a global realm of game monetisation by enabling real money tournaments in any skill-based game.

About the role

They say good looks only take you so far - that’s why we need you to demonstrate that our products are not only good-looking but also highly functional. As a Software Engineer, you will have an opportunity to solve highly technical problems to shape WIN's backend systems, infrastructure, development and deployment practices while evangelising a strong engineering culture.

Your work will have a direct impact on the User Experience of all the Win.com players across the world and the internal systems.

• This is a contract, per-project, as-needed or full-time role

What you’ll do

• Play a key role working on the backend services and infrastructure that powers WIN and other products
• Build platforms, services, and APIs
• You’ll chiefly be using Go in our various backend and data engineering projects
• Using a range of different data stores across our teams including , but not limited to PostgreSQL, Redis, Bleve
• You'll be working with RabbitMQ for queues
• Collaborate with our cross-functional teams

Superpowers you’ll need

• 4-6 years of experience architecting and maintaining backend systems
• Proven experience with Go; and a great foundation with another programming language (e.g. Java, NodeJS, PHP or Python, etc)
• Experience working with Protobufs, gRPC & HTTP/2
• Understanding of modern software engineering practices in areas like CI/CD, test automation, micro services, distributed systems, and data management
• Experience working in a cloud environment such as Google Cloud Platform
• Technical vision, ability to understand abstract problems and architect systems that help solve them
• A good understanding of application, information and infrastructure architectures, such as API / SDK development and integrations
• Experience working in a cloud environment such as Google Cloud Platform or AWS
• Experience with technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana is a plus
• Excellent English communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team