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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.\nOur 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.\nWe are looking for an experienced Tech Lead/Senior Go Developer to design and build reliable backend services for billing and payment processing systems.\nThis role requires strong expertise in Go backend architecture and hands-on experience integrating with payment providers and financial infrastructure.\nYou will work on systems responsible for payment processing, billing logic, provider integrations and transaction workflows, ensuring reliability, scalability and correctness of financial operations.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, build, and maintain backend services for billing, payments, and transaction processing\n\nIntegrate with external payment providers and financial APIs\n\nDevelop reliable transaction workflows, including retries, reconciliation, and failure handling\n\nEnsure the scalability, reliability, and correctness of financial operations\n\nWrite maintainable, well-tested production code\n\nMonitor, troubleshoot, and improve payment and transaction flows\n\nContribute to backend architecture and technical decision-making\n\nRequired Qualifications\n5+ years of backend development experience in Go, including concurrency and service architecture\n\nExperience designing and operating high-availability production systems\n\nStrong experience with billing, payments, or other transaction-heavy systems\n\nHands-on experience integrating payment providers or payment gateways\n\nExperience with REST APIs, asynchronous processing, and event-driven architectures\n\nExperience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases\n\nStrong understanding of transactional systems, consistency, and failure handling\n\nImportant: Hands-on experience with payment or billing systems is required.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with multiple payment providers and subscription billing systems\n\nExperience operating high-load distributed systems\n\nExperience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging platforms\n\nExperience with observability tooling, including metrics, tracing, and logging\n\nWhy Join Us\nWorld-class team - work alongside experienced professionals from around the globe who have built products used by millions of players\n\nHigh growth, high impact - be part of a fast-growing company where ideas turn into products and reach customers in days, not months\n\nAutonomy and ownership - we trust people to make decisions, take initiative, and drive results\n\nModern tools and technology - use AI, automation, and modern tools as part of your everyday work\n\nEquity - participate in the company's growth and long-term success","description_format":"text","description_chars":3377,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-10T22:17:39Z"}],"liveness":{"score":6,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.204,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":104,"expected_fill_days":32,"reasons":["conf:3","stale_co","ghost","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-29T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/aghanim-tech-leadsenior-go-developer-payments","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/aghanim-tech-leadsenior-go-developer-payments.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-30T04:31:43Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3235,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1765,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}}