Golang Backend Engineer

*** Please no agencies for this post *** 🚀 To my network of Engineers, Principals and Tech Leads We’re in the middle of scaling a platform that serves millions of active users — and I need experienced contractors who can step in and deliver now while we continue building out the permanent team at Betika. Hiring properly takes time. Our roadmap doesn’t slow down. ⚡ At Betika, we’re operating a multi-country iGaming platform across Africa in a regulated environment. These are live production systems with wallet and ledger complexity, compliance constraints, and hard delivery dates. 🎯 🏗 Our stack is modern and built for scale: - Golang services at the core - Event-driven architecture (Kafka / PubSub patterns) - Kubernetes-based infrastructure - Cloud-native deployment (GCP-centric) - BigQuery-powered data and analytics pipelines - CI/CD-driven delivery - API-first design across wallet, sportsbook, compliance, and core services 🔎 We're looking to bring in contractors for: 🧠 Senior Backend Engineers (Golang) Strong production experience in Go, distributed systems, APIs, performance tuning, and clean architecture. You should be comfortable operating in high-concurrency environments. 🛠 Technical Leads (Hands-on, Golang) You lead from the front. You design, review, unblock, and still write code. You can drive delivery while protecting architectural integrity. 🏛 Staff Engineers Deep architectural thinkers. Polyglot is fine — Go is desirable but not mandatory. You must be strong in system design, event-driven patterns, scalability, and long-term platform thinking. 🌍 Environment characteristics: - High transaction volumes - Regulated iGaming domain - Multi-market rollout - Tight delivery windows Strong focus on execution velocity without accumulating structural debt. ⚖️ Ideally, you’re based in Dubai or aligned to the Middle East timezone. That said, we’re open to sourcing strong engineers from across Europe if timezone overlap works. If you’re an experienced contractor who can operate in a live, high-scale environment — or you know someone who can — message me directly. 📩