Senior Backend Engineer

We're making a football game
GOALS is our attempt to give football the game it deserves. A fair game, that is a reflection of football, rather than the football industry. We want to make a game that’s fun right away, without players having to invest a fortune.

It’s a game about winning, but one where victory comes in more forms than simply winning matches. Focus on trick shots, design awesome t-shirts or create an arena that inspires greatness. No two players will be on the same journey.

GOALS is for everyone, like football can and should be. It’s for the casuals and the pros. For the players, the managers and the fans. It’s for the designers, the audience and the divas. For everyone who loves the game itself or anything surrounding it. GOALS is football.

Read more about GOALS here. (https://studio.playgoals.com/)

Welcome to the engineering team

Our backend team has a key position in making GOALS successful as an online first, multiplayer game.

As part of the team you will build our backend services for our game such as game clusters, lobby, marketplace, authentication, leaderboards, telemetry pipelines and more. But it's not only about functionality -it's also about making it scalable to millions of players and fast. Your previous experience from coding and architectural design will have a huge impact on were we go from here.

We count on you to bring a lot of knowledge and experience in the cloud domain since we are fully cloud based. You will have the trust and mandate to solve problems using your previous experience, and research and collaborate to find the best way forward. Of course you will not be left alone. At GOALS we collaborate across crafts in feature teams and encourage everyone to raise their voice to drive our change.

Our tech stack is multi-region cloud based with a microservice architecture. We use Golang with gRPC/protobuf and follow modern best practices for orchestrating our services; among these you’ll find Bazel, Terraform, Kubernetes, Argo and more.

You will be tackle questions and find the answers to:

- How to build backend services that are both testable, scalable, cost efficient and of high quality

- How to build automations and tooling to reduce repetitive tasks

- How to build telemetry pipelines to cope with high amount of events to be ingested into BigQuery

At GOALS, you will...

- Together with the cloud team build and maintain our backend services as well as designing (and discussing) how our client cloud should interact with our APIs

- As a senior backend developer guide and support other team members

- Do hands-on coding using Golang and other languages

- Be part of creating a sustainable cloud infrastructure for the game

Ideally you have...

- 5+ years of experience from high traffic and scalable backend systems

- Experience working with Golang, Bazel, gRPC & protobuf

- Experience working with Kubernetes and Cloud platforms (GCP or AWS)

- Experience working with Git

About the Employment
The position is permanent and you can work from our Stockholm office, hybrid or fully remote from anywhere in Europe. It is important that you are able to communicate unhindered in verbal/written English.

For this position we do not offer relocation assistance.

In addition to opportunities for creative impact and professional growth, working at GOALS has many other benefits like occupational pension, 30 days PTO, flexible work hours, stock options and more. Learn more here. (https://studio.playgoals.com/life)

Application
For this role we would like you to include:

- LinkedIn-profile, CV or any other document that showcase your experience

- A link to your Github (if applicable)

We strongly encourage you to apply even if you don’t feel that you tick all the boxes. You just might be exactly what we need, even if we haven’t understood it yet. GOALS is still a young company and we change quickly. But one thing that never changes is our conviction that we need a diverse studio environment, filled with different perspectives and skills.