Staff Engineer- Golang

We are Asia’s fastest-growing skill-based gaming company and partner brand of Flutter which is a multi-billion dollar global gaming organization. We are focused on providing our customers with the most innovative and exciting gaming experience possible. Our success has been driven by our commitment to excellence, our passion for gaming, and our ability to continuously innovate. We are driven by our strong value system, which encompasses an obsession with data, a hustler’s attitude, an owner's mindset, leading with love, and embracing change.

As our Staff/Principal Engineer- Golang, you will be part of a team working on cutting-edge technologies. The candidate would design and implement new components and features for highly scalable gaming platforms. The candidate would be comfortable with the process of refactoring and consider the same as a necessary part of engineering, thereby assisting the overall maturity of the software developed. The candidate will ensure that software deliverables comply with quality standards and are completed on time. The candidate will be a role model for junior SDEs and lead technical initiatives by example.

Responsibilities:

• Lead research & develop designs to build large-scale & complex products designed to handle larger scale, availability, and performance considerations
• Guide & design in adopting microservices, middleware & container architecture for product building
• Lead, own & design architecture evolution, hardening the architecture and design for the product
• Guide in direct root cause analysis of critical business and production issues.
• Lead design reviews & code reviews
• Establish engineering best practices in design & coding & DevOps for the team on old & new tech stack
• Contribute to optimising design, code & mentor team on the same.
• Contribute to defining unit & functional test automation strategy & framework adoption
• Establish & induct secure coding practices using OWASP Top 10 and ensure zero vulnerability
• Research new tech stack in the backend, middleware & databases for product transformation / Improvement and solve new problems
• Drive technology strategy and vision in collaboration with product
• Engages & leads non-functional requirements like scalability, security, stability & performance for the product owns and works in collaboration with security, DevOps and testing teams to achieve the same.
• Evaluate, drive & optimise infrastructure needs for products to meet the scalability & availability needs.
• Establish monitoring strategy & principles in line with product usage & bottlenecks.
• Identify & solve tech debts with an actionable plan.
• Bring new ideas for product enhancement.
• Align solutions with the overall business applications and IT technology roadmap.
• Mentor & coach & train team on engineering design, coding & architecture.

Requirements

• BE/B. Tech. in Computer Science, or an MCA from a reputed university.
• 11+ years of software development or programming experience.
• 4+ years of experience in designing software in any public cloud – AWS, GCP or azure
• 3+ years of experience in Golang is needed.
• 2+ years of experience in any NoSQL would be needed.
• 1+ years of experience in horizontally scalable RDBMS like YugabyteDB, and CockroachDB, would be desirable.
• Hands-on experience in configuring & using various monitoring tools like elastic search, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, etc would be needed.
• Experience in using Kubernetes would be needed.
• Exposure to cloud-native ci-cd technologies like Tekton, Argocd, etc would be desirable.
• Good knowledge of container technologies & developing microservices in distributed architecture is needed.

What Junglee offers for this role:

• Meaningful global exposure and opportunity to represent Junglee as part of Flutter Entertainment, the largest real-money gaming company in the world
• Ample learning opportunities and to work with some of the best industry leaders and minds
• Being a part of a vibrant, intelligent, and rapidly growing team.
• In-depth understanding of the gaming ecosystem.
• Competitive Compensation and Incentives.
• Excellent work environment, great culture, and global exposure.

About Junglee Games

Junglee Games is a leader in the skill-gaming space, with over 100 million registered players. Founded in San Francisco in 2012 and part of the $30 Bn Flutter Entertainment Group, Junglee Games is the fastest-growing skill games company in Southeast Asia. Some of our notable games are Junglee Rummy, Howzat, Junglee Poker, and Carrom Stars.

Our mission is to build entertainment for millions of people around the world and help them connect with each other through high-quality games. We focus on creating exhilarating and immersive gaming experiences and also incorporate social features to promote interaction and competition among players. Our games are available on multiple platforms, including web browsers, and Android and iOS devices.

Since our inception, we have drawn 700+ of the world’s most talented people into our ranks. Our team has worked on international AAA titles like Transformers, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Real Steel, Rio, Mech Conquest, and Dueling Blades. Our designers have worked on some of Hollywood’s biggest hits, including the movie Avatar.

Junglee Games is not just a gaming business. It is a blend of data science, innovation, cutting-edge technology, and, most importantly, a value-driven culture that is creating the next set of conscious leaders. An equal-opportunity employer, Junglee Games has been certified as a Great Place to Work for four years in a row. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees.

Junglee Games has received various accolades for its contribution to the online gaming space. The company continues to innovate and develop new games, expanding its presence in the global gaming market.

Website: https://www.jungleegames.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/junglee-games