Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

About the role

Block Labs is building a multi‑tenant backend that transforms high‑volume player activity into personalized, trustworthy experiences. As a Senior Backend Engineer you will join a senior, highly technical team creating greenfield services that react to player actions in real time and at scale.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement distributed backend services powering player engagement across a multi‑tenant platform.
• Develop core platform features spanning engagement, personalization, and platform integrity.
• Consume and process high‑volume activity streams, integrating with internal payments, game providers, and third‑party tools.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, data, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable end‑to‑end systems.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, ensuring scalability, fault‑tolerance, and data integrity.

Required profile

• 6+ years of backend development experience, preferably on high‑throughput, real‑time or consumer‑facing systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go; experience with gRPC and RESTful APIs.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, multi‑tenant architectures, and microservices.
• Comfortable working in cloud‑native environments and committed to reliability, observability, and security.

Required skills

• Go programming language
• gRPC
• RESTful APIs
• Cloud‑native platforms
• Event‑driven architectures (Kafka, message queues)