Position: Principal  Backend Engineer (Golang)
Company: Svitla
Category: Golang
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Principal Back End Engineer (Go) for a full-time position (40 hours per week) in Ukraine. Our client combines chat & games at lightning speed as the first messenger app built for real-time multiplayer games. It is the best chat app with group games built around having fun with friends. No sign-ups, emails, or phone numbers are required. It features private 1:1 messaging, group messaging, and many public chat rooms. They are the creators of the original Yahoo! Games, backed by early investors of WhatsApp. Tech Stack: Go, GRPC, AWS, microservices, RabbitMQ, Postgres Description of Project: it’s a chat, and multiplayer games application focused on messaging between friends and letting them play multiplayer games together. As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be expected to independently seek better ways to do things, provide technical leadership for others, and demonstrate your successful results.
Requirements:
8+ years of experience in engineering.
Solid experience with Go.
Experience as a large-scale consumer. 
Strong computer science background and algorithmic skills.
Previous experience with production environments, including deployments, monitoring, hotfix, A/B testing, triaging, and stability.
Experience in distributed computing.
Experience in concurrency.
Knowledge of Linux systems at the network and system level. Ability to discuss things like epoll and TCP handshakes.
A strong interest in optimization: optimize for speed, optimize for size.
Have a portfolio of your successes, showing previous projects that you are proud to demonstrate and talk about in technical depth.
Strong interest or experience with Golang and Dartlang.
MS (or higher) in a STEM field, or BS (or higher) in computer science/engineering.
Enthusiastic person who has an interest in games and ownership.
Responsibilities:
Help make a significant impact by extending the multiplayer game and chat platform, working with a team of senior engineers. 
Architect, develop, refactor, and maintain components across the client’s entire backend stack, providing a collection of services for other platform components to utilize and mobile clients.
Develop in a high performance/high scalability environment.
Create clean, precise coding in a language you are an expert in.
Be fully hands-on coding in a small, fast-paced startup environment.
Collaboratively architect and develop solutions for both small and large/next-gen problems.
Be aware of full-stack concerns: how to provide a back-end service for many mobile app clients.
Contribute to the operations team keeping the service running constantly.
Design, build, and operate new components and features for a multiplayer games platform.
We Offer:
US and EU projects based on advanced technologies.
Competitive compensation based on skills and experience.
Annual performance appraisals.
Flexibility in workspace, either remote or in one of our development offices. 
Comprehensive medical insurance including dental and massages.
Sport reimbursement program for onsite and online activities.
Support of a healthy lifestyle, compensation for running events.
Bonuses for recommendations of new employees.
Bonuses for article writing, public talks, other activities.
Personal loan budget available for long-term personnel.
20 vacation days, 10 national holidays and sick leaves.
Maternity leave policy and family days off.
Full compensation for conferences, courses, English classes.
Free webinars, meetups and conferences organized by Svitla.
Gifts for birthdays, New Year, anniversaries, children and more.
Fun corporate celebrations and activities, regular lectures on various topics.
Awesome team, friendly and supportive community!
About Svitla:
Svitla Systems is a global trusted IT solutions company headquartered in California, with business and development offices throughout the US, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Svitla is an outspoken advocate of workplace flexibility, best known for its well-established remote culture, individual approach to our teammate’s professional and personal growth, and family-like environment.

Since 2003, Svitla has served a wide range of clients, from innovative start-ups in California to mega-large corporations such as Ingenico, Amplience, InvoiceASAP and Global Citizen. At Svitla, developers work with clients’ teams directly, building lasting and successful partnerships, as a result of seamless integration with on-site processes. 

Svitla Systems’ global mission is to build a business that contributes to the well-being of our partners, personnel and their families, improves our communities, and makes a lasting difference in the world. Join us!

If you are interested in our vacancy, please send your CV. We will be happy to see you in our friendly team :)