Staff Backend Developer (Golang)

About Us

ArcadeXR builds online and remote-play arcade experiences for a global audience. Our platform, Arcade Online, connects players from around the world to real physical arcade machines. It’s competitive, skill-driven, event-heavy, and community-focused.

Our development team is driven to create the most engaging and rewarding digital experiences for our users through cutting-edge web-based applications with live-streaming capabilities. We collaborate, evaluate, and iterate on everything that powers our platform, with a strong focus on performance, scalability, and exceptional user experiences.

Our Senior/Staff Backend Engineers are passionate about building robust, high-performance systems that handle large-scale data processing and deliver seamless user experiences. This role is primarily focused on backend development, with occasional requirements for streaming optimization and low-level programming. You'll be responsible for developing and maintaining the core infrastructure that powers our web-based applications, ensuring optimal performance and reliability at scale. A solid understanding of how video streaming works is essential, though deep streaming expertise can be developed on the job.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-performance, scalable backend systems and real-time communication services using Golang
• Implement and optimize WebRTC solutions for seamless live-streaming and real-time communication experiences
• Architect and maintain scalable Firebase-based solutions for data management, authentication, and cloud functions
• Perform low-level programming optimization using C to resolve live-streaming performance issues and bottlenecks
• Design and develop software with a high standard of code quality, stability, maintainability, readability, and performance
• Collaborate with frontend developers, product managers, and designers to build robust APIs and backend services
• Optimize live-streaming infrastructure and troubleshoot complex performance issues
• Advise the development team on the best software packages, platforms, and techniques for implementing features and systems
• Contribute to architecture decisions for new features and improvements to existing platform capabilities

• Work with hardware engineers when needed to integrate custom interfaces and implement comprehensive testing tools
• Contribute to the design and technical feasibility assessment of new product ideas and features

Required Skills and Experience

• Expert-level proficiency in Golang with demonstrated experience building production-grade applications and services
• Strong understanding of video streaming fundamentals, protocols, and how streaming technologies work end-to-end
• Experience with NoSQL database design and implementation
• Worked with GCP platform and serverless functions
• Strong experience with live-streaming technologies and video/audio processing pipelines
• Proficiency with the gRPC framework for high-performance API development
• Experience working in teams with version control systems such as Git
• Experience with software development best practices, including unit testing, build automation, design patterns, and data-driven development
• Able to thrive in a diverse, collaborative team, working productively and autonomously
• Strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal
• Passion for building scalable, high-performance web applications and live-streaming platforms

Nice to have skills (not mandatory):

• Deep expertise in WebRTC and low-latency programming, including real-time communication protocols, network optimization, and performance tuning
• Experience with DevOps practices (build pipelines, CI/CD, monitoring, etc)
• Experience using TypeScript for frontend integration
• Experience developing for Linux environments
• Knowledge of video codecs and streaming protocols (HLS)
• Experience with containerization and microservices architecture
• Experience working with GStreamer and ffmpeg
• Experience with Raspberry Pi development and hardware integration
• Proficiency in C programming for low-level optimization and performance tuning of live-streaming components