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Go Backend Engineer III

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Philadelphia, PA
Posted 4 days ago
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Job Description

Fliff unpacks sports gaming into social, free-to-play games for all types of sports fans. We've 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.

We’re seeking a Go Engineer III to design, build, and maintain high-performance backend systems serving passionate sports fans. You’ll 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 You’ll 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

  • 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, we’ll make Fliff better for employees and customers alike.

    Lively and Creative
    We respect and value each other’s 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. We’ll 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.

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    Salary Information

    Salary: $85,000 - $130,000

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