Tech Lead/Senior Go Developer (Payments)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 29, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jun 16, 2026. Aghanim scores D on the Alion truth index.
Aghanim is an integrated commerce, liveops automation, community engagement, and payments platform for video games.
Mobile games have traditionally depended on app stores for distribution, payments, and player relationships. We believe there is a better way. Aghanim helps game studios build direct relationships with players, sell directly, and build their future on their own terms. Today, more than 100 games worldwide are already building this future with Aghanim.
Our team brings together people across Los Angeles, New York, Seoul, Beijing, London, Lisbon, Belgrade and other locations around the globe, with deep expertise in gaming, fintech and technology. We move quickly, keep communication direct, and focus on getting things done. We believe the best people thrive when they have autonomy, ownership, and a stake in the company's success.
We are looking for an experienced Tech Lead/Senior Go Developer to design and build reliable backend services for billing and payment processing systems.
This role requires strong expertise in Go backend architecture and hands-on experience integrating with payment providers and financial infrastructure.
You will work on systems responsible for payment processing, billing logic, provider integrations and transaction workflows, ensuring reliability, scalability and correctness of financial operations.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain backend services for billing, payments, and transaction processing
Integrate with external payment providers and financial APIs
Develop reliable transaction workflows, including retries, reconciliation, and failure handling
Ensure the scalability, reliability, and correctness of financial operations
Write maintainable, well-tested production code
Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve payment and transaction flows
Contribute to backend architecture and technical decision-making
Required Qualifications
5+ years of backend development experience in Go, including concurrency and service architecture
Experience designing and operating high-availability production systems
Strong experience with billing, payments, or other transaction-heavy systems
Hands-on experience integrating payment providers or payment gateways
Experience with REST APIs, asynchronous processing, and event-driven architectures
Experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases
Strong understanding of transactional systems, consistency, and failure handling
Important: Hands-on experience with payment or billing systems is required.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with multiple payment providers and subscription billing systems
Experience operating high-load distributed systems
Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging platforms
Experience with observability tooling, including metrics, tracing, and logging
Why Join Us
World-class team - work alongside experienced professionals from around the globe who have built products used by millions of players
High growth, high impact - be part of a fast-growing company where ideas turn into products and reach customers in days, not months
Autonomy and ownership - we trust people to make decisions, take initiative, and drive results
Modern tools and technology - use AI, automation, and modern tools as part of your everyday work
Equity - participate in the company's growth and long-term success