Go Backend Engineer III
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Job Location:
Philadelphia, PA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 160000 - 175000
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Fliff unpacks sports gaming into social free-to-play games for all types of sports fans. Weve built a social sports gaming experience that allows users to compete for leaderboard positioning to achieve badges and build their status within the game.
We are pioneering play-for-fun sports gaming with our flagship social sportsbook experience that includes sweepstakes promotions and loyalty rewards. We provide sports fans with fun engaging and free-to-play alternatives to real money gaming.
Were seeking a Go Engineer III to design build and maintain high-performance backend systems serving passionate sports fans. Youll join the Fantasy team a cross-functional group of engineers and product managers delivering scalable reliable and low-latency solutions that power applications across mobile and desktop.
You should be confident writing production-quality Go code comfortable owning features end-to-end and eager to grow your expertise in distributed systems. Domain experience in sports betting gaming or real-time data platforms is a plus.
What Youll Do
- Design develop and maintain high-performance distributed systems using Go
- Collaborate with product managers frontend engineers and designers to define design and ship new features end-to-end
- Implement scalable fault-tolerant solutions to handle large volumes of real-time traffic
- Write clean maintainable and efficient code following industry best practices and internal standards
- Develop robust testing strategies including unit integration and end-to-end tests to ensure quality and reliability
- Participate in and lead code reviews providing thoughtful feedback and fostering a culture of continuous learning
- Monitor troubleshoot and improve system performance and reliability in production
- Contribute to architectural discussions and help drive decisions on scalability reliability and security
Required Skills & Experience
- 4 years of overall software development experience
- Proficiency in Go
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures messaging queues (Kafka RabbitMQ etc.) or streaming platforms
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems and microservices in production environments
- Solid understanding of data structures algorithms concurrency and performance optimization
- Hands-on experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases
- Experience deploying and managing services on AWS or another major cloud provider
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and containerization (e.g. Docker Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of observability tools (Datadog Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry)
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment
Nice to Have
- Prior experience in the sports betting gaming or real-time data space
- Strong grasp of security and compliance considerations in backend systems
- Experience optimizing performance or debugging distributed systems at scale
- Basic familiarity with frontend or mobile concepts for smoother cross-functional collaboration
Benefits:
- The annual salary for this role ranges from $160000 to $175000 depending on experience and background.
- Unlimited/ Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation policy
- Health benefits with 100% paid premiums* for medical dental and vision plans for employees and dependents plus an on-demand healthcare concierge.
- Pre-tax savings plans for healthcare with up to a $500 annual employer contribution to the HSA (if enrolled in the HSA medical plan).
- Employee-sponsored 401(k) to help reach your financial goals.
- Fully remote work environment.
- Generous parental leave.
- Professional development opportunities in a dynamic global setting.
Perks:
- Work Remotely.
- $500 work-from-home stipend Equipment & Accessories.
- Opportunity for professional development in a dynamic global setting.
- A supportive collaborative and knowledge-driven workplace.
- An engaging and challenging role with the freedom to innovate and develop effective solutions.
We are a multinational company with our headquarters based in Philadelphia and offices in New York Austin and Sofia Bulgaria. Wherever we are in the world we pride ourselves on being a close-knit focused team that is welcoming and friendly and the work that we do is always interesting and rewarding. Wherever we are in the world we pride ourselves on being a close-knit focused team that is:
Welcoming and Friendly
We want to reflect the diversity of the cities we serve. By creating an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive well make Fliff better for employees and customers alike.
Lively and Creative
We respect and value each others ideas experience and expertise. There is no such thing as a bad idea; only ideas that are executed and ideas that are discarded after consideration.
Stimulating and Rewarding
We know bright minds love a challenge and we understand your desire to see your hard work pay off. Well make sure your daily tasks align with your career ambitions as we grow together.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Fliff is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status.
Join Our Team!
If youre ready to be part of an exciting innovative and dynamic team apply now to help shape the future of sports gaming with Fliff.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The privacy and security of applicant information is paramount and we take fraud attempts very seriously. Please note that Fliff will never ask for payment or personal financial information during the application of our legitimate job opportunities can be found on our official career site ( Please be cautious of communications and links that come from non-company email addresses (@) social media messaging platforms or unsolicited phone calls.
Key Skills
- Business Intelligence
- Bidding
- Accounts Assistant Credit Control
- Account Development
- Content Development
- Lab Testing
About Company
Fliff is a new sports prediction experience that is social and rewarding. Play for free and earn rewards to experience the sweat without the financial risk!
