Staff Software Engineer – Go Backend

About the role

Block Labs is building high‑scale, production‑grade backend platforms for crypto, fintech, and real‑money gaming. As a Staff Software Engineer you will own the design, implementation, and operation of distributed, transactional services written in Go.

Key responsibilities

• Translate business outcomes and constraints into scoped, sequenced, shippable work.
• Design and implement high‑volume, multi‑tenant Go services that integrate with payments, providers, and internal platforms.
• Define and enforce correctness guarantees for balances and transactional behavior.
• Run the agentic engineering system that decomposes ambiguous work, verifies behavior, and guards against technical debt.
• Operate the services in production, monitor failure modes, and resolve issues.

Required profile

• Deep proficiency in Go on high‑volume, transactional systems.
• Strong judgment on multi‑tenancy, event‑driven architecture, queues, and associated failure modes.
• Experience building cloud‑native, reliable, observable, and secure services.
• Proven ability to carry a project from ambiguous objective through to production ownership.
• Comfort making decisions under ambiguity and escalating when needed.

Required skills

• Go programming language
• Cloud‑native architecture
• Event‑driven systems
• Message queues
• Reliability engineering
• Observability tooling
• Security best practices