Senior Golang Developer
OpenTag is a full-product company on a mission to revolutionize the B2C and B2B gaming industry. We provide operators around the globe with a state-of-the-art platform that serves as a comprehensive solution for all their operational needs.
Our mission is to create the best software through empowered teams, centralized around our product. We do this to help great organizations reach ambitious goals and fulfill their purpose with equally great teams.
We are currently looking for a proactive and experienced Senior Golang Developer to join our dynamic iGaming platform team.
You will:
Design and build scalable, low-latency distributed services for mission-critical business logic.
Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, and R&D leads to define technical solutions aligned with business goals.
Take ownership of end-to-end software delivery: from technical design to deployment and monitoring in production.
Lead and participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
Drive improvements in code quality, architecture, and system performance.
Ensure observability and operational readiness from day one: metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting are second nature.
Introduce modern tools, patterns, and practices to improve developer productivity and system reliability.
What We’re Looking For
5+ years of backend development experience, including 2+ years working with Golang in production.
Experience designing and building high-throughput, real-time backend systems.
Solid knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, with hands-on experience in modeling and performance tuning.
Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and experience with messaging systems like Kafka, NATS, or similar.
Deep hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps tooling (CI/CD, IaC).
Proficient in writing tests (unit, integration, functional) and ensuring system resilience through automation.
Sound knowledge of software architecture principles: DDD, Clean Architecture, hexagonal architecture.
Experience with API lifecycle management, including versioning, deprecation, and graceful degradation.
Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and distributed tracing systems.
Fluent with Git (Gitflow), Agile methodologies, and collaboration tools like JIRA and Confluence.
AI mindset and adaptability: comfortable leveraging AI tools in the software development lifecycle to accelerate development, explore solutions, improve code quality, and automate repetitive tasks, while critically evaluating and validating AI-generated output.
Nice to Have
Experience working in regulated, high-availability environments.
Background in iGaming, particularly with systems related to bonusing, loyalty programs, or payments.
Involvement in performance optimization, architectural refactoring, or tech leadership initiatives.
Contributions to open-source projects or internal engineering tooling.
What do We offer?
An inspiring workspace with awesome teammates and a great vibe
Learning opportunities with a dedicated training budget to level up your skills
25 vacation days + an extra day off to celebrate your birthday 🎉
Premium health insurance for your peace of mind
Birthday vouchers and little surprises along the way
Free snacks, team lunches, and great coffee (because fuel matters ☕)
Sports card, transportation, and food allowance
Quarterly team events that bring everyone together
Excited to join us? Click the Apply button and let’s build something amazing together!
About the Company
OpenTag is a fast-growing company within the field of Sports Betting and Gaming. We are challenging ourselves to create the next market standard in terms of scalability, agility, and technology in content publishing and automation to ensure we provide the best user experience and the most effortless control to our users. Expanding and delivering fast is our nature. Founded in July 2019 for less than 2 years we managed to have our platform running on numerous websites. We currently have over 100 employees in Sofia and more than 50 people in Kyiv. Many job opportunities await those who dare to experiment and work hard. If you want to know more about OpenTag, please check our media and culture sections. There you will find many interviews and articles regarding our company. What are we developing? We are creating a sports betting platform from scratch. The platform is being developed using microservices architecture, that will help us create a platform where the business and the customer's needs will be fully satisfied with decreasing time to market. Our platform is using four major backend stacks: Java (Spring boot), PHP (Symfony), GoLang and NodeJs. The Front-End is written in React. We are using the best practices and approaches in software development. Our platform is used by millions of players across the globe, so it has to be scalable and reliable.
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