Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

X-FLOW is a mobile game development company established in 2018. We gained recognition after the release of Happy Color, the most popular digital coloring book and one of the most successful ad-driven mobile apps in the world.

We are currently looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (Go) for our flagship project, Happy Color.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop microservices in Go (REST/gRPC), public and internal APIs.
• Integrate with external services, develop contracts.
• Optimize performance, profiling, reduce latency, and scale systems.
• Design database schemas, perform migrations, indexing, and query optimization.
• Work with PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis, Kafka/NATS and event-driven integrations.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD, cloud infrastructure (AWS) with Docker/Kubernetes.

Ensure quality

writing tests (unit/integration/e2e), code reviews, automation of checks.

Ensure observability and reliability

logging, metrics, alerting, tracing.

• Participate in architectural design, RFCs/ADRs.

Requirements

• 3+ years of commercial development experience, including 3+ years with Golang.

Proficient in Go

context handling, concurrency (goroutines/channels), profiling (pprof), gRPC/REST, generics, modularity.

• Strong understanding of backend architecture, API design, microservices, and distributed systems.

Databases

PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis; design, indexing, transactions.

Queues/Buses

Kafka/NATS — experience in designing event-driven integrations.

• Experience with search technologies such as OpenSearch would be a plus.

CI/CD

GitLab CI, feature flags, migrations, blue-green/rolling deployments.

Testing

Go testing/testify, integration/e2e.

Security

OAuth2, JWT.

• Understanding of DDD principles, SOLID, 12-factor methodology, observability (Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Russian - C1/higher, English - B1.

Nice to have

• Experience with Python and/or PHP.
• Experience with TypeScript, JavaScript and React.
• Experience with OpenSearch.

Data architecture

CQRS/Event Sourcing, idempotency, deduplication.

• Experience building BFFs, WebSockets.
• Feature flags, experiments/A-B testing, product metrics.

Technology Stack (Primary)

Backend

Go, gRPC/REST, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka.

DevOps

GitLab CI, Docker, nice to have

Kubernetes, AWS, Helm.

Observability

Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Sentry.

Search

OpenSearch.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunity to work with a talented and passionate team in a creative and dynamic environment.
• Flexible working hours and remote/office work options.
• Career growth and professional development opportunities.
• A fun and inclusive company culture that celebrates diversity and creativity.

Join us and let’s create great content together!

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