Accountabilities

• Lead the architectural redesign and implementation of the next generation of a high-scale matchmaking engine.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and cross-functional stakeholders to define an architecture that is scalable, modular, decoupled, and extensible.
• Design clean, robust interfaces and high-level abstractions that simplify complex systems and enable teams to build new capabilities efficiently.
• Solve complex distributed-systems challenges related to massive throughput, low latency, reliability, concurrency, and service scalability.
• Leverage Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, and modern cloud-native practices to build highly resilient microservices.
• Establish and promote strong architectural and engineering standards across backend development.
• Conduct high-level code and architecture reviews, providing constructive guidance on design patterns, system boundaries, and technical quality.
• Act as a technical multiplier by mentoring senior engineers and sharing expertise in architecture, distributed systems, and backend engineering.
• Apply Domain-Driven Design principles to establish clear service boundaries and evolve legacy systems toward modern distributed architectures.
• Identify and address challenges involving database locking, eventual consistency, distributed caching, race conditions, and other issues inherent to high-scale systems.
• Balance long-term architectural vision with pragmatic implementation decisions that deliver reliable and maintainable software.
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Requirements

• Extensive professional experience designing, developing, and deploying robust backend APIs and microservices in production environments.
• Strong software engineering expertise, with Golang experience highly preferred.
• Proven experience re-architecting or modernizing legacy systems into distributed, cloud-native microservice architectures.
• Strong understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and the ability to establish effective boundaries between services and domains.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems and their practical challenges, including database locking, eventual consistency, distributed caching, race conditions, throughput, and latency.
• Experience working with gRPC and Protobuf is highly valuable.
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes/GKE.
• Experience with Docker and containerized application environments.
• Familiarity with high-scale distributed databases and caching technologies.
• Strong architectural judgment and the ability to create abstractions that remain useful and maintainable as systems evolve.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction beyond an individual project or team.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex architectural concepts clearly to engineers and stakeholders.
• Experience conducting senior-level code reviews and mentoring experienced engineers.
• Comfortable working as a senior individual contributor in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.
• Experience with high-traffic systems where performance, caching, scalability, and latency optimization were critical is a strong advantage.
• Genuine interest in gaming and esports is a plus.
• Experience mentoring engineers outside your immediate project or team is an additional advantage.
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Benefits

• Opportunity to work on highly scalable technology serving a global community of millions of users.
• Significant architectural ownership over a mission-critical matchmaking platform.
• Opportunity to solve complex distributed-systems and scalability challenges at substantial scale.
• Work with a modern technology stack including Golang, gRPC, Protobuf, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, distributed databases, and caching systems.
• Senior individual-contributor position with broad technical influence and architectural responsibility.
• Opportunity to mentor experienced engineers and help shape engineering standards and best practices.
• Exposure to the rapidly evolving global gaming and esports ecosystem.
• Inclusive, equal-opportunity working environment that values diverse perspectives and backgrounds.
• Opportunity to contribute to technology that supports competitive gaming communities and experiences worldwide.
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